Humanitarian concerns, including the issue of prisoners, have been left out of the draft peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Friday. His remarks followed the announcement that the countries had agreed on the text of the peace treaty.

Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan insisted on Wednesday that Armenia and Azerbaijan could finalize a bilateral peace accord soon despite multiple preconditions set by Baku.

Armenia's Foreign ministry said on Thursday that a draft peace agreement with Azerbaijan had been finalised from its side and that it was ready to discuss a date and location to sign a final deal. Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a series of wars since the late 1980s,

Armenia and Azerbaijan are very close to completing the work on the draft peace agreement, said Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a series of wars since the late 1980s, when Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan that had a mostly Armenian population at the time, broke away from Baku with Yerevan's support.