Friday, January 19 2024 11:53

ArmInfo.On January 18, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Vahan  Kostanyan had a meeting with Javier Colomina, the NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia.

The parties discussed the issues on the Armenia-NATO cooperation  agenda and touched upon the continued involvement of peacekeeping  units of Armenia in international peacekeeping missions, including  under the NATO auspices.

During the meeting, issues of international and regional security  were also discussed. Vahan Kostanyan touched upon the security  situation in the South Caucasus, the recent developments in the  normalization process of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations and briefed on  the main approaches to the draft peace agreement in line with the  well-known principles. The Deputy Minister noted that the recent  statements of the President of Azerbaijan contradict the entire logic  of the negotiations.

In this context, Deputy Minister Vahan Kostanyan emphasized the need  for targeted actions by the international partners aimed at  maintaining stability and peace in the South Caucasus.

On January 18, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of  Armenia Vahan Kostanyan had a meeting with the delegation headed by  Toivo Klaar, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and  the crisis in Georgia.

During the meeting, the parties discussed the recent developments on  regional security and establishment of peace. In this context, the  Deputy Foreign Minister drew the attention of interlocutors to the  destructive statements made by the President of Azerbaijan in his  recent interview, which aim to deviate from the peace agenda.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vahan Kostanyan stressed that the  former USSR member states, including Armenia and Azerbaijan,  recognize each other's borders in accordance with the Alma-Ata  Declaration of December 1991, and the delimitation work should be  carried out on the basis of the latest maps available at the time of  the dissolution of the USSR. The Deputy Minister also emphasized the  imperative of the withdrawal of the Azerbaijani armed forces from the  sovereign territory of Armenia.

Vahan Kostanyan noted that Azerbaijan is hindering the process of  unblocking regional infrastructures, the 4 well-known principles of  which - sovereignty, jurisdiction, reciprocity and equality - have  been previously agreed between the parties.