Video: Pashinyan on Statements Coming from Baku

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has stated that the recent statements coming from Baku represent a serious blow to the peace process. This was declared by the Prime Minister in a video shared on his Facebook page, where he is seen addressing a meeting of the initiative group of the "Civil Contract" party held in the city of Gavar.

"The first reason is that we have publicly and officially agreed several times that peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as the delimitation and demarcation of borders, should be based on the Almaty Declaration of December 1991. This means a simple thing: that Armenia and Azerbaijan recognize each other's territorial integrity with the understanding that Armenia’s territory is exactly as much as the territory of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and Azerbaijan’s territory is exactly as much as the territory of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic. The Almaty Declaration states that the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the states gain independence with their own territories, and the administrative borders between the Soviet states become state borders," he said.

Pashinyan added that this means the border delimitation process is not about creating new borders but about restoring the borders that existed according to the Almaty Declaration of 1991.

For more details, watch the video.