During the question-and-answer session of the National Assembly, “Civil Contract” MP Gevorg Papoyan was interested in what principles and legal basis the demarcation and delimitation will be based on, and whether there is a certain understanding among the parties.
“This issue has been publicly discussed, but it needs to be addressed again. As before, I will say now again that Armenia’s position is logical and is as follows, talking about demarcation and delimitation, we have to rely on legal decisions, if we talk about maps, we have to rely on maps that are based on legal decisions. Without it, a map is a painting.
We have studied the legal bases of borders and maps between Armenia and Azerbaijan. And we proposed that demarcation and delimitation be implemented on this basis. This means that the borders separating Soviet Armenia and Soviet Azerbaijan were recognized by the declaration of the formation of the CIS and later by the relevant document. And the claim that there is no border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is not true. That border exists, and it has been violated by Azerbaijan, which carried out two-stage aggression,” Pashinyan said.
“Our opinion is that Soviet Union maps should be considered. If Azerbaijan does not recognize the maps of Nagorno Karabakh, the logic that Nagorno Karabakh was a part of Azerbaijan during the Soviet Union doesn’t make sense.
Azerbaijan has been pursuing the following policy for a long time. He goes to the West, presents Armenia as a pro-Russian state, and there, tries to promote the idea of opening a second front against the Russian Federation in Armenia in the context of the situation in Ukraine.
In communication with Russia, it presents Armenia as a strongly pro-Western state and tries to create an understanding that perhaps it makes sense to punish Armenia for conducting a pro-Western policy and to create understanding in Russia for its aggressive policy towards Armenia. I do not rule out that there are circles on both sides who like these ideas.
I hope and I am convinced that there is no such perception at the state level, and we have also intensified our contacts with both the Russian Federation and Western countries. Armenia is not a proxy state and sticks to its obligations.
Our political problem and position are that there is a border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, that border is recognized, and the recognition of it has been ratified by both countries. If Azerbaijan says that there is no such thing, then a number of its opinions lose their meaning and ground,” Pashinyan said.
