Armenia's Prime Minister has voiced the urgency of defining the border with Azerbaijan to prevent further conflict, despite an agreement to negotiate a peace treaty.
Armenia's prime minister said Tuesday that the Caucasus nation needs to quickly define the border with neighboring Azerbaijan to avoid a new round of hostilities. Last year, Azerbaijan waged a lightning military campaign to reclaim the Karabakh region, ending three decades of ethnic Armenian separatists’ rule there. In December, the two sides agreed to begin negotiations on a peace treaty.
Speaking to residents of the border village of Voskepar in the Tavush region, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned that Armenia's refusal to delineate the border could trigger a new confrontation. 'It would mean that a war could erupt by the end of the week,' Pashinyan said. He noted that the border demarcation should be based on mutual recognition of territorial integrity of Armenia and Azerbaijan based on Soviet maps from 1991, when they were both were part of the Soviet Union.
He said Yerevan would welcome NATO's efforts to help normalize ties between Armenia and Azerbaijan. 'We expect strong support from the international community, including NATO, for the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan,' he said.
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