I consider the talk about concessions to be especially unacceptable, because if Armenia's state border, the de jure existing border, is reproduced, it is at least not logical to call it a concession. Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this during the National Assembly-Government question-and-answer session, referring to the concern of 'Civil Contract' faction MP Arpine Davoyan that there has been a lot of talk about unilateral concessions recently.
"It is at least not logical to call it a concession, I would call it at least a success, because for the first time in its history, Armenia independently forms a border through negotiation, creates, reproduces a border and lays the most important cornerstone for the further development of Armenia's sovereignty, statehood, and independence.
Why do I say that we are redoing the border, because in 1991, in fact, by joining the Alma Ata Declaration or signing the Alma Ata Protocol of the Minsk Agreement, Armenia once again declared itself as an independent state of the Third Republic, that is, the territory of Soviet Armenia, the borders of Soviet Armenia, and the declaration of Alma Ata recorded the inviolability of the borders.
As of 1991, there were de jure borders between the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, and during this time we worked, we raised all the de jure grounds for the existence of that border, we made sure that we know where the legal border of Armenia is, passes, and reproduced that border on the ground, adopting (there is no alternative) the principle 'the border passes where it passes'.
I want to emphasize that as a result of this delimitation process, not a single millimeter of the sovereign territory of Armenia was left to anyone else. The sovereign territory of Armenia is fully recorded with delimited parts," he said.
