Pashinyan: During border delimitation with Azerbaijan, Armenia must  return Artsvashen and other occupied sovereign territories 

ArmInfo.  Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that during the border delimitation with Azerbaijan, Armenia must return its sovereign territories that are currently under Baku's control.

"As a result of the delimitation, we must return Artsvashen and other  occupied sovereign territories of the Republic of Armenia," Pashinyan  wrote on social media.

It should be noted that the Azerbaijani enclaves in Armenia are  located in the Tavush and Ararat regions.  These are the villages of  Baganis-Ayrum, Nerkin Voskepar (Ashagi Askipara), Verin Voskepar  (Yukhari Askipara), Barkhudarli, Sofulu, and Tigranashen (Karki).  These settlements were transferred to Armenia as a result of fighting  in the 1990s, during the First Karabakh War. The village of  Artsvashen, in turn, came under the control of Baku.

Many Armenian experts have repeatedly warned of the dangers of  exchanging enclaves between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It has been noted  that the transfer of enclaves would cause Yerevan serious issues with  interstate roads. Specifically, this concerns one enclave in the  Ararat region (Tigranashen), where the M2 interstate highway connects  the south and north of the country and Armenia with Iran, and two in  the Tavush region. A similar situation is in the northeast, in the  Tavush region, on a very difficult, winding section with two former  enclaves. The interstate highway connecting Armenia with Georgia  passes through Ijevan, Noyemberyan, and Bagratashen. Meanwhile,  Artsvashen is slightly smaller in area than the combined territory of  the three aforementioned enclaves, but does not occupy any strategic  territory; on the contrary, it is completely surrounded by  Azerbaijani territory.