Pashinyan: Some trying to make border delimitation look like disaster
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YEREVAN, June 18. /ARKA/. Some people claim that the Armenia-Azerbaijan border delimitation process is a disaster, Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in Sisian as he spoke at a local high school on Monday./pp
Pashinyan says many people in border-straddling communities of Chakaten and Nerkin Hand which he also recently visited asked him if the border delimition might concern them./pp “You see, they asked me if the border delimitation can happen there as well, and they were hopeful this would happen, while some people in our country claim that this process is a disaster,” he said./pp
Numerous Armenian opposition parties and activists protest the Armenia--Azerbaijan border delimitation, claiming that Yerevan is ceding land to Baku. The Tavush for Homeland movement led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan has been setting up rallies in the country since May, demanding a halt to the delimitation process and the resignation of Pashinyan and his cabinet./pp
Representatives of Yerevan and Baku signed a border delimitation protocol on 15 May that recreated the old border between Soviet Armenia and Soviet Azerbaijan, based on a 1976 map. The border will separate the Armenian settlements of Baghanis, Voskepar, Kirants and Berkaber in the Tavush province from the abandoned Azerbaijani villages named Bağanis Ayrum, Aşağı Əskipara, Xeyrimli, and Qızılhacılı./pp
Armenia’s Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan announced on 17 May that not an inch of Armenian land had been ceded to Azerbaijan during the border delimitation process./pp
The border guards of Armenia’s National Security Service entered duty on the delimited sections of the border in the Tavush province on 24 May, except for the section in the village of Kirants where transitory border control mode is expected to be used until 24 July 2024./pp
Armenia and Azerbaijan also pledged to continue the delimitation process on other sections of the border according to the 1991 Alma-Ata Protocol./p br