Having meted out to Nachoragan the punishment usually assigned to unsuccessful commanders in Persia, he sent an ambassador to Byzantium in the spring of A.D.556, and commenced negotiations which he intended to be serious.

Diplomacy seems to have been as averse in the days of Chosroes as in our own to an undignified rapidity of proceeding.
Hence, though there could be little to debate where both parties were substantially at one, the negotiations begun in May A.D.556 were not concluded till after the commencement of the following year.

A complete suspension of hostilities was then agreed upon, to extend to Lazica no less than to the other dominions of the two monarchs.

In Lazica each party was to keep what it possessed, territory, cities, and castles.

As this joint occupation was scarcely suitable for a permanent arrangement, it was provided that the two belligerents should, during the continuance of the truce, proceed to settle the terms on which a lasting peace might be established.
An interval of five years elapsed before the happy result, for which both parties had expressed themselves anxious, was accomplished.