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Armenia – Azerbaijan relations – Situation update as of 13/05/2024

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On 10 May, the Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers, Djeyhoun Bayramov and Ararat Mirzoyan, met in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a meeting confirmed on 6 May, and which gave rise to a similar press release. On this occasion, the Azerbaijani MFA announced that the demarcation was almost completed in the Qazakh sector.

While on 19 April, a border agreement was concluded between the two countries which allowed the return of 4 villages occupied by Armenia since the 1990s under Azerbaijani sovereignty, and Nikol Pashinian published on social media a photo of the first terminal on the Tavoush – Qazax section, the Armenian Ministry of Justice had to justify this controversial decision in the country in these terms: “[…]  the cession of any part of the sovereign territory of Armenia to another state is out of the question under any circumstances. Regarding the obligation to carry out any changes in the territory of Armenia only by referendum […] The ongoing process is not related to the change of territory, but to the reproduction and location of the national border. […] the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration and the Minsk Agreement are the international treaties that serve as the basis for determining Armenia’s border. […] According to the legally recognized maps during the existence of the USSR, including the maps approved by the commissions during the delimitation process, the 4 villages in question belonged to Soviet Azerbaijan.” Indeed, several demonstrations have multiplied in Yerevan and around the villages of the Tavoush region, notably under the leadership of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanian who is also supported by the headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church, for which Nikol Pashinian declared on 7 May during a 4-hour press conference: “It is obvious that the Catholicos of All Armenians is leading a political movement in Armenia today […] This scenario was already presented after the elections of 2021: the head of the “Armenia” bloc [Robert Kocharian] presented a scenario on how to carry out a change of power in Armenia through the Church.


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