If Armenia and Azerbaijan recognize each other's territorial integrity, what will happen to the more than 200 square kilometers of occupied territories of the Republic of Armenia? The Prime Minister also touched on this issue in his message, speaking about the questions raised over the past ten days.
"With the Washington Declaration and the initialed agreement, the Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan recognized the inviolability and territorial integrity of each other's borders on the basis of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1991. This means that the parties accept that today the territory of the Republic of Armenia is exactly identical to the territory of the Armenian SSR, and today the territory of the Republic of Azerbaijan is exactly identical to the territory of the Azerbaijani SSR.
This reality must be resolved in the delimitation process, but the logic of peace, the new logic, is that when saying that there are sovereign territories of the Republic of Armenia that are today under Azerbaijani control, we must also say that there are sovereign territories of Azerbaijan that are under our control, and this mutual issue must be resolved in the delimitation process.
Dear people, dear citizens, I know that this emphasis, this kind of emphasis may sound strange to our ears, may cause irritation, but this is the new logic of peace, this is the new wine that we must pour into new bottles, we must look at our reality and the region as a whole and with a new perspective, because this is the care that we must take towards peace," the Prime Minister said.
