During the ‘Yerevan Dialogue’ forum, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan also referred to the border delimitation process between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
According to him, we have a significant shift here as well, and this shift is expressed by the fact that the relevant commissions of Armenia and Azerbaijan recently signed a regulation on the joint activity of the delimitation commissions.
“That regulation records what the parties announced on April 19 of this year, in the message published as a result of the 8th meeting of the commissions. That is, it is taken, the Alma Ata declaration is recorded as the basic principle of the delimitation process, and it is recorded that the parties will be guided by the Alma Ata declaration in the delimitation process,” the Prime Minister informed, emphasizing that the aforementioned declaration was signed by a number of former Soviet republics, including Armenia and Azerbaijan.
According to the Prime Minister, that declaration has two key provisions in the topic we are discussing, and the first of these provisions is that the Soviet Union ceases to exist, and secondly, that the countries that signed the Alma Ata Declaration recognize and respect each other's territorial integrity and the inviolability of existing borders.
“This is a very important basis, which, in fact, if we interpret the corresponding provision of the Alma Ata declaration, it will mean that Armenia and Azerbaijan recognize each other within the framework of the territories of the Soviet republics.
Now, as mentioned, in Armenia and Azerbaijan, according to the agreement, this regulation is going through domestic procedures of internal coordination, and of course, I hope and I am sure at least that in the Republic of Armenia we will do everything to complete it. Now the Government has accepted the project and sent it to the Constitutional Court to verify its constitutionality,” Nikol Pashinyan concluded his speech.
