ArmInfo. Armenian Premier Nikol Pashinyan considers official Baku's latest statements a serious blow on the peace process.
"There are several reasons for this. The first of them is that, as you know, we have publicly agreed several times that peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as the delimitation and demarcation of borders, should be based on the Alma-Ata Declaration of December 1991.
This means that the Republic of Armenia and Azerbaijan mutually recognize each other's territorial integrity with the perception that the territory of the Republic of Armenia exactly corresponds to the territory of the Armenian SSR, and the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic exactly corresponds to the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR. The Alma-Ata Declaration says exactly this: the Soviet Union collapsed, states gain independence on their territories, and administrative boundaries between Soviet states become state borders," the prime minister said, speaking at a meeting of the action group of the ruling party "Civil Contract" in Gavar.
As Pashinyan noted, the above also means that border delimitation <is not a process of creating borders>, but consists of reproducing the borders that existed according to the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1991. And these agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan were stated during the Prague meeting on October 6, 2022 with the quadripartite declaration adopted as a result, and in the same month at the meeting in Sochi, and on July 15 in Brussels at the trilateral meeting, he said.
According to the Armenian prime minister, Baku's latest statements at the highest level directly contradict this logic and this agreement. "Although it is an election period in Azerbaijan, I think there is a need for clarification... But the first impression is that Azerbaijan is trying to make territorial claims against Armenia, which is completely unacceptable," the Armenian premier said.