ArmInfo.The proposals submitted to Baku relate to improving the level of border security. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this on January 24 during an online press conference, answering questions from the media and public organizations.
On January 14, at a press conference following the results of the activities of Russian diplomacy in 2021, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia would convey to Azerbaijan Armenia's proposals regarding a commission on the delimitation of the border between the two countries with its subsequent demarcation. "Just yesterday, I talked with an Armenian colleague who had new proposals, we are passing them on to Baku. We will look at how to make it (the commission) work as soon as possible," he said. On January 19, during a government hour in parliament, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated that Yerevan had prepared proposals aimed at de-escalating the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, and transmitted them both to Russia and through Moscow to Azerbaijan.
Pashinyan recalled that according to the tripartite statement adopted in Sochi, there was an agreement that the parties would take steps to increase the level of security stability on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and work towards the establishment of a Delimitation and Demarcation Commission. The proposals submitted to Azerbaijan do not concern the delimitation and demarcation process itself, but the increase in the level of security and stability on the border. "In particular, we are talking about the equal withdrawal of troops, which I spoke about in May 2021," he said, adding that without stability at the border, it is impossible to implement the process of delimitation and demarcation.
According to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Baku, in fact, responded to this package, stating that demarcation and delimitation should be carried out without preconditions. "To which the Armenian Foreign Ministry replied that there were no preconditions from the Armenian side and it was not about preconditions, but about mechanisms for implementing the agreements. These proposals did not fall from the sky, as a result of various discussions there were different proposals," he explained. According to the prime minister, Armenia did not try to formulate a document expressing the point of view of the Armenian side - an attempt was made to withdraw rational proposals from the discussions and formulate mutually acceptable proposals, and, as Pashinyan believes, this was successful. "Discussions are ongoing, we do not want to disrupt the working discussion by revealing many details. We believe that the commission on demarcation and delimitation should be formed as soon as possible, the sooner the better. Those agreements that we have reached, the sooner they are implemented, the better, now we are working to make it happen," the prime minister said. Referring to the statement of EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia, Toivo Klaar, that the European Union offered the parties several options for defusing the situation, Pashinyan noted: "We met in Sochi, then in Brussels, and as a result of this, we tried to derive those possible common approaches that were fixed, and the proposals that we made, in which some nuances changed along the way, include discussions in Sochi and Brussels. We formulated the proposal, but the copyright on them does not belong to us, because this is the result of discussions, certain comments were made by Russia, moreover, they also reflect certain observations of Azerbaijan, Armenia, the EU. What we said and saw at the table, that there may be some options, we formalized them and put them on the table."