By Ruzana Stepanian
YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Armenia and Azerbaijan have still not reached an agreement on the key parameters of delimiting and demarcating their long border, Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Monday, June 5.
Baku insisted, meanwhile, that the two sides made no progress on the thorny issue during recent peace talks.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev discussed it at their most recent meeting held in Moldova’s capital Chisinau on Thursday on the sidelines of a European summit. They were joined by European Union chief Charles Michel, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Pashinyan described the talks as “useful.” In particular, he said, Baku now seems open to accepting an Armenian proposal to use 1975 Soviet maps as a basis for delimiting the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
The secretary of Armenia’s Security Council, Armen Grigoryan, likewise said on Sunday that “progress” was made in Chisinau regarding the use of those maps. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry denied that on Monday, however, accusing Grigoryan of misrepresenting the Chisinau summit.
