Prime Minister: Important point of Prague agreement was use of 1975  maps to delimit Armenian- Azerbaijani borders

ArmInfo. The results of the five-sided meeting in Chisinau are preliminary. RA Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan stated at a meeting with representatives of the Armenian community of Moldova.

According to him, the fact that they are preliminary is due to the  need for a response from Azerbaijan As a rule, Pashinyan continued,  after the first impressions, the second and third stages begin,  during which their influence "on the ground" is studied. In general,  as the head of the Armenian government noted, the discussions were  useful. One of the important components of the meeting was the  confirmation of the agreement reached in Prague on the recognition of  the territorial integrity of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the basis of  the Almaty Declaration, signed in December 1991 after the collapse of  the Soviet Union. Thus, Azerbaijan recognizes the territorial  integrity of Armenia with an area of 29.8 thousand square km, and  Armenia recognizes the territory of Azerbaijan with an area of 86.6  thousand square km. The issue of the future of Nagorno-Karabakh  should be discussed on the basis of the format of a direct dialogue  between Baku and Stepanakert using an international mechanism so that  this agenda is not shelved. The European partners have expressed  their positions on this issue.

As Pashinyan noted, an important point of the meeting was the  agreement on the use of maps of 1975 in the delimitation of the  borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which is a confirmation of  the borders of the Republic of Armenia within 29.8 thousand square  km.

The RA Prime Minister noted that during the meeting the issue of  opening transport and economic ties in the region was discussed.  Armenia is ready to discuss this issue within the framework of its  sovereignty over transport infrastructures, in accordance with  paragraph 9 of the tripartite statement of November 9, 2020.

Pashinyan stressed that the issue of the return of prisoners of war  and the fate of the missing persons, as well as other humanitarian  issues, was also discussed.

The Prime Minister also said that an agreement had been reached to  hold the next trilateral meeting on July 21 in Brussels. In addition,  from June 12, negotiations between the foreign ministers of Armenia  and Azerbaijan will be held in Washington, and on June 2, a regular  meeting of the working group at the level of vice-premiers of  Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan will be held in Moscow, at which the  issue of opening transport communications in the region will be  discussed.

Pashinyan also said that the next meeting of the European Community  will be held in Spain this autumn, and, according to the head of the  European Council, Charles Michel, a five-sided meeting will also be  held within this meeting.

From a political point of view, the head of the Armenian government  continued, it is very important to leave the completed and complete  cadastral certificate of the Republic of Armenia to future  generations. " We are talking about the recognition of territorial  integrity and we are moving towards this goal step by step,"  Pashinyan said, recalling his recent statement on this issue in the  RA National Assembly. "I really want to achieve results as the Prime  Minister of Armenia so that we leave to our future generations a  completed and complete cadastral certificate of the Republic of  Armenia," Pashinyan said, adding that very important steps have been  taken towards the formulation of the cadastral certificate.

On June 1, a meeting of RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan,  Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, French President Emmanuel Macron,  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and head of the European Council  Charles Michel was held in Chisinau. The meeting discussed the entire  range of issues related to the settlement of Armenian-Azerbaijani  relations.