There is a misunderstanding and there is a misinterpretation about delimitation and demarcation negotiations. The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated this answering the question on the demand to reveal the content of the delimitation and demarcation negotiations.
“The impression is that a paper will be signed on the results of delimitation and demarcation. Such a thing is simply impossible. The potential document to be signed will be the fact that Armenia and Azerbaijan are forming a commission, which will start dealing with delimitation and demarcation works. It will not be written in that paper, that the border is crossed here, here or here.
I recently received an OSCE consultation document on delimitation and demarcation work by experts from Belarus and Lithuania, taking into account the positive experience of delimitation and demarcation between their countries. The document will be about the formation of a commission, and the start of work, the methodology by which it should take place, the legal grounds, etc.,” said the Prime Minister.
Pashinyan referred to the maps, emphasizing the importance of their legal basis.
“There is a lot of talk about maps. We all need to understand that the map itself is a picture that has no value without legal justification. Now we can create, print, publish any map, and say this is the map of Armenia.
Maps appear on the Internet, there are claims that, look, it is a map of Soviet Armenia, this area is inside the borders of Soviet Armenia. We kindly and respectfully invite the authors of this statement to present the legal basis. Today we know with millimeter accuracy where the borders of Soviet Armenia pass, the borders of de jure importance.
And why the Soviet Union, because the Republic of Armenia declared independence through the territory of Soviet Armenia, and the international community recognized the Republic of Armenia through that territory. This is important in the sense that if Azerbaijan says there is no border, there is a border, there is a territory, the territory where it has invaded is the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan is an aggressor in the invasion, and the fact of this aggression must be internationally assessed. This will be one of our important foreign policy directions. We will not limit ourselves to this issue in any format,” said Nikol Pashinyan.
