What option does RA offer to solve the issue of exclaves and define the territory of Artsvashen?

According to the agreements publicly recorded in writing on international platforms, Armenia and Azerbaijan recognize each other's territorial integrity based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, and it should be the political basis of the demarcation process. RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said this at the February 15 Government session, reports 1lurer.am.

"This means that we are left with, in fact, technical work to reproduce on maps and on the ground the existing de jure border between the Armenian and Azerbaijani SSRs as of 1991 by highlighting their legal bases, and to resolve the issue.

The issue of so-called exclaves should also be addressed on the same principle. For example, in order to determine the territory of Artsvashen, its border should be drawn on the basis of legal documents, and as a result of further negotiations, this issue should also be resolved by some resolution. But Azerbaijan regularly avoids such solutions, trying to follow the path of localization.

We even agree to this option: to carry out the demarcation even region by region, reproducing the border in each sector, and then carry out the adjustment of the positioning of the troops according to the reproduced border, and move on to the next sector, leaving the exclave issues to the last stage.

In other words, there are two options: first, we implement demarcation along the entire border and proceed to its implementation. The second option is that we divide the border into pieces and delineate the border piece by piece, and move forward. And, in fact, both options are acceptable to us within the framework of the above-mentioned principles, but Azerbaijan seems to be avoiding this option.

Our analysis suggests that there may be one reason for this, and that reason may be the initiation of military operations in some parts of the border, with the prospect of further military escalation against RA into a full-scale war. This intention is read in all statements and actions from official Baku," said Pashinyan.