Deputy PM: Armenian-Azerbaijani border delimitation is rather complex  and lengthy process

ArmInfo. The process of delimiting the borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan is quite a  complex and lengthy process. Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Mher Grigoryan stated on December 6 during the government hour in the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia.

According to him, the process will be carried out exclusively on the  basis of documents of legal significance. Demarcation works will be  carried out on the basis of real topographic maps, rather than on  maps with some kind of diagrams. 

For example, Soviet maps from 1975 cover the period 1974-1979 and  consist of 23 fragments that require careful research. "There is no  discrete decision on the issue of delimitation, and there will be no  meeting after which it will be possible to declare the completion of  the delimitation process. This is simply impossible. "I emphasize  that the positions of the parties in this approach are identical,"  the Deputy Prime Minister noted, adding that during the last meeting  with the Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan on the border, an  agreement was reached on the development of regulations and  principles for the work of delimitation commissions. This procedure  will be approved in the near future, after which meetings of  commission members will become institutionalized. The Deputy Prime  Minister noted that during the last meeting the issue of enclaves was  not discussed.

On November 30, the fifth meeting of the Commission on Delimitation  and Border Security of the State Border between the Republic of  Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan and the State Commission on  the Delimitation of the State Border between the Republic of  Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia was held on the border between  the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, under the  chairmanship of Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Mher  Grigoryan and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan  Shahin Mustafayev.  As the press service of the RA MFA reports, the  sides continued the discussion of border delimitation issues and  touched upon a number of organizational and procedural issues.  The  parties have reached preliminary agreement on the text of the Order  for organization and conduct of sittings and joint working meetings  of the Commission on Delimitation and Border Security of the State  Border between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan  and the State Commission on the Delimitation of the State Border  between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia.  The  sides have arranged to commence the elaborations to agree upon the  draft Regulation on joint activity of the Commission on Delimitation  and Border Security of the State Border between the Republic of  Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan and the State Commission on  the Delimitation of the State Border between the Republic of  Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia, as well as agreed to  intensify the conduct of meetings between the Commissions.  The sides  agreed to set the date and the place of the next meeting of the  commissions in working order.