Azerbaijan proposes January meeting on border delimitation

PanARMENIAN.Net - Baku has proposed a meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian delimitation commissions to be held in January, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in an interview with local TV channels on January 7.

"Well, as far as I know, this month, at least on our initiative, we proposed that another meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian delimitation commissions should take place in order to continue the issue of delimitation," he said, according to APA.

“We have our approach to methodology, we have conveyed it to the Armenian side, and the verbal response that we received and I was briefed on, indicates that there are no particular objections from their side."

The delimitation and demarcation of Armenia’s border with Azerbaijani will not necessarily be based on a 1991 declaration championed by Yerevan, according to an agreement signed by the two countries in September.

The agreement involves “regulations” for joint activities of their respective commissions dealing with the border delimitation process. It does not specify which maps, if any, will be used by the two sides. It only refers to the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration in which Armenia, Azerbaijan and other newly independent republics recognized each other’s Soviet-era borders. The declaration does not contain detailed descriptions of those borders.