The fruitless meeting between Baku and Yerevan regarding border demarcation
On Saturday, Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan continued to talk about border demarcation, while observers and political experts report the lack of progress in this round of negotiations. |
According to the Fars News Agency International Group, Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan continued to discuss the delimitation of their borders as part of the wider peace treaty talks.
according to the website report “Eurasiant” State commissions for demarcation of the borders of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan met for the fifth time on Saturday. These commissions were chaired by Mehr Grigoryan, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia and Shahin Mustafaev from the Republic of Azerbaijan. After this meeting, the foreign ministries of the two countries published similar statements.
The two neighboring republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia have been fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region for three decades. The mountains have been involved. The two countries do not have diplomatic relations. Despite the efforts for peace between these two countries, the final agreement has not yet been reached. Delimitation of borders continued and a number of organizational and procedural issues were examined. The parties have reached a preliminary agreement on the text of the order for holding meetings and joint working sessions between the commissions”.
According to this report, with this However, the meeting did not create hope among observers for progress towards any border demarcation work and the ultimate goal of signing a peace agreement. Armenian journalist Onik Grigoryan said: “Unfortunately, the meeting was short.” Five meetings of the border commissions have been held and no agreement has been reached yet on how to organize and hold them.” Meanwhile, the meeting of foreign ministers The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe was formed at the same time as the border negotiations. The senior diplomats of Azerbaijan and Armenia were both there, but they did not meet. “Ararat Mirzoyan”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, in his speech at the Council of Europe, repeated Armenia’s statements regarding ethnic cleansing by Baku.
” Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Jihun Bayramov also said that all the Armenians of Karabakh left the region of their own accord and are free to stay in their homes. He accused Yerevan of unnecessarily prolonging the peace process.
Direct negotiations to finalize the peace agreement are committed. We publicly proposed to Armenia that we meet at mutual state borders or in a neutral third country.” Recently, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, in a meeting with “Leo Docherty”, the British Parliamentary Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that there is no obstacle to signing a peace agreement between Baku and Yerevan. He emphasized that the Republic of Azerbaijan supports the regional peace agenda and is ready to talk with Armenia to conclude a peace agreement and normalize relations. Nikol Pashinyan The Prime Minister of Armenia recently said that the first of the three principles that should be used to sign a peace treaty is that Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan mutually recognize each other’s territorial integrity of 28,600 square kilometers and 86,600 square kilometers.
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