Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced that Yerevan has received a response from Baku to its proposal on the draft peace agreement, which were handed over in mid-February. Pashinyan stated that while progress has been made, fundamental problems are still being revealed as Baku is seeking to fix "territorial claims" to Armenia in the peace treaty. Azerbaijan's peace treaty proposals give it "a mandate to conduct ethnic cleansing or genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh," which is a "red line" for Armenia as well. Additionally, Baku is seeking to ensure that there is no system of guarantees for the implementation of the clauses of the future peace treaty. Pashinyan emphasized that the rights and security of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh are of primary importance to Yerevan and that the main dialogue should be between Karabakh and Baku "using international mechanisms and guarantees."