ArmInfo.The demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict are in no way overlapping processes. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this during a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, who stressed the urgent need to demarcate and delimit the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
According to the press service of the government, Pashinyan provided the interlocutor with information about the recent border provocations of Azerbaijan, as well as the aggressive rhetoric of official Baku, stressing that the purpose of the latter is to destabilize the situation in the region. At the same time, he called the fabricated trials against the Armenian prisoners in Azerbaijan inadmissible.
The Prime Minister reiterated the proposal to deploy a CSTO observer mission along the border or, if such a decision is impossible, as an alternative, to deploy an observation mission of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs. The French President, in turn, confirmed his readiness to continue consistent efforts to establish lasting peace in the region.
Nikol Pashinyan expressed confidence that initiatives and steps that have a regional context can be successful if they are approved by all the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairing countries. The Prime Minister stressed that the Armenian government welcomed the statements of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, including the resumption of the negotiation process, and is ready to fully participate in the negotiation process. It is reported that during the telephone conversation, the French President also congratulated Nikol Pashinyan on his appointment to the post of Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia and highly appreciated the implementation of democratic processes in the country. At the same time, he informed about France's intention to provide Armenia with 200 thousand doses of anti-COVID vaccine.