Thursday, March 21 2024 16:54

ArmInfo.No one in Armenia has the right to transfer to Azerbaijan territories that are within the  internationally recognized borders of the country, Artur Hovhannisyan, Secretary of the dominant Civil Contract faction, told a briefing in Armenia's Parliament, in response to a question about the risks of transferring part of the territories under the control of Baku in the absence of a process of delimitation and demarcation  of borders.

The deputy emphasized that those sections of the border that are  outside the recognized borders of Armenia are not its territory.  Hovannisyan actually repeated the statement of the head of the  Armenian government about the lack of agreement with Azerbaijan on  any maps on which the process of delimitation and demarcation of  borders can be carried out. "In different periods of the Soviet  period, there were various legal grounds according to which decisions  on borders were formed, the basis for which should now be the  Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991," the deputy said, adding that at  meetings of the commissions on delimitation and demarcation of  borders, this The question comes up all the time. "Armenia strives to  move forward, taking into account all the risks that have always been  and are," the parliamentarian emphasized.

In turn, NA deputy from the ruling faction Andranik Kocharyan noted  that the choice of cards is the most difficult problem. He emphasized  that there are various maps that have constantly changed and are  changing. For example, the activities of the mining industry can lead  to natural changes in boundaries, the same applies to changes in the  beds of border rivers, etc. Currently, task number one is to draw the  boundaries of the country in each individual area.

"But today in public discourse there is much more talk not so much  about borders and maps, but about what territories Yerevan wants to  surrender. Armenia has no intention of surrendering the territories  that belong to it. The current authorities are guided by a clear  principle: what is ours is ours, what is not ours is not ours. But  what is ours must be fixed bilaterally," Kocharyan said, adding that  in accordance with the provisions of the Alma-Ata Declaration, it is  necessary to have appropriate borders. In Soviet times, the armed  forces, in particular the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the  former USSR, had the clearest maps , whose maps Azerbaijan seemed to  agree to follow from 1976. But for the Armenian side, there are much  more preferable options for maps from various periods of Soviet  power, for example, maps from 1926.

Yesterday, during the government hour in the National Assembly of the  Republic of Armenia, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan  announced the absence of maps agreed upon with Azerbaijan, on the  basis of which the process of delimitation and demarcation of the  state border between the countries should be carried out. "There is  no agreement on any maps between Armenia and Azerbaijan. There is  agreement that Armenia and Azerbaijan recognize territorial integrity  on the basis of the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991, and there is mutual  understanding that a delimitation process must take place. For this,  the political basis must be Alma-Ata Declaration," Pashinyan said.

According to him, this means that Armenia and Azerbaijan are not  creating new borders, but must restore the existing, most recent de  jure borders "on the ground."

On March 18, Pashinyan, at a meeting with residents of the village of  Voskepar, Tavush region in the north-east of the country, bordering  Azerbaijan, stated that the process of delimitation and demarcation  of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan was entering the  practical stage. According to him, there is a real opportunity to  begin the process of demarcation and delimitation in the area from  the village of Baganisa to the village of Berkaber in the Tavush  region and return four villages to Azerbaijani control.