ArmInfo. Demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border "by eye" will sooner or later lead to an outbreak, Ara Ghazaryan, a specialist in international law, expressed such an opinion to ArmInfo.
"Before embarking on demarcation, first it is necessary to check to which extent the Soviet border drawings correspond to the current realities. After that, based on the study of the legal foundations of these documents, proceed, in fact, to demarcation. Moreover, this whole process may last up to ten years ", he stressed.
Mapping, according to the lawyer, is a long, legal process. Accordingly, the implementation of this process at an accelerated pace will only lead to very tentative results. At the same time, in his opinion, it will be very difficult to reconsider the results of such a hasty demarcation. The demarcation of the Armenian- Azerbaijani border "by eye", according to the lawyer's forecasts, will sooner or later lead to an explosion of accumulated problems.
According to Ghazaryan's estimates, there are many similar problems today. And according to the boundaries determined on the basis of Soviet maps, serious problems may arise in the future, preventing, for example, the operation of the Kapan airport. The lawyer is convinced of the fallacy of border demarcation solely on the basis of Soviet maps. Because there have been many changes in the title to property over the past 30 years. Accordingly, the legal owners of land plots and real estate located in territories that suddenly became controversial are not at all interested in the treaties of the state with Azerbaijan.
According to Ghazaryan, all this leads to a huge number of legal problems. Accordingly, the issues of delimitation and demarcation of borders, according to his conviction, can and should be resolved exclusively on a legal basis. For doing this there is a need of working groups, years of negotiations, taking into account the infrastructures formed over 30 years and the possibility of movement. "The Statement of the Heads of State of November 9 itself needs to be ratified by the parliaments of the two countries, which will make it possible to turn it into an agreement. The Trilateral Statement is only a guide of points around which the parties will have to agree in the future. And the parties need to do this. The implementation of the 9th clause of the Statement alone- the provision of a corridor through Meghri will take at least four years. Ratification of the statement by the people in the person of parliament is a necessity. Meanwhile, only the treaty is subject to ratification, while today there is no treaty. There is only agreement of the parties on a ceasefire, "the lawyer summed up.