ArmInfo.Security agencies of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia decided on the maps by which the dislocation of forces at the border was carried out. Spokesperson of the Armenian Foreign Ministry Anna Naghdalyan stated this in an interview with ArmInfo.
Thus, when asked to comment why the Soviet military maps of 1975-1976 and not some other maps were taken as a basis for the location of the military on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Naghdalyan stressed that this issue was not within their competence, and was decided by law enforcement agencies of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
It should be noted that earlier, in an interview with Radio Azatutyun, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan stated that Yerevan and Baku do not carry out legal confirmation of borders, and on the border with Azerbaijan, border guards are temporarily located on the basis of Soviet military maps of 1975-1976. Avinian again insisted that Armenia and Azerbaijan have signed no other document besides the November 9 ceasefire agreement and the trilateral statement signed in Moscow on January 11 this year. "In any case, I am not aware of any such document. As for the agreements on the Goris-David Bek section [of the road in Syunik], these agreements are with the Russian side, and Russian border guards are stationed there on the basis of these agreements," the deputy prime minister explained. Meanwhile, touching upon the process to clarify the borders that is currently taking place on the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Avinyan replied: "Delimitation and demarcation are legal processes. As such, we do not have a legal fixation of our borders with Azerbaijan. For such a process, we first of all need to have bilateral relations, because these legal processes at least presuppose the establishment of bilateral relations. In fact, this is, one might say, the deployment of border guards with a certain logic, with the logic of military maps of 1975-1976, which is a temporary placement - until the final delimitation and demarcation of borders>.
When asked whether Armenia and Azerbaijan are going to sign any document on which the parties recognize the common state border, the Deputy Prime Minister answered: "This presupposes just the process of delimitation and demarcation. This is at least a matter of several years, it is a rather long-term and laborious process. We have not yet completed this process with neighboring Georgia, it has been going on for quite a long time. And in general, sooner or later, we must carry out a similar process with all our neighbors>.
In response to a clarifying question whether this process will also be carried out with Azerbaijan and Turkey, Avinyan said: "It depends on the condition of establishing or not establishing bilateral relations. Relationship is the minimum prerequisite for starting such a legal process>.