The issue of Artsvashen and 31 villages of Armenia will be in the demarcation process. Nikol Pashinyan

Throughout the negotiations, publicly and privately, Armenia has raised the issue of vital territories of its 31 villages, as well as the issue of Artsvashen, which will be in the demarcation process. RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated this in an interview to public television, answering the question whether after the 4 villages of Tavush, it is guaranteed by legitimacy that Azerbaijan will return to Armenia the territories in the directions of Vardenis, Jermuk, Ishkhanasar, Nerkin Hand, which are legitimately Armenia's.

"When we fix the Alma-Ata declaration as the basic principle of the demarcation process, first of all we fix our legitimate right and legitimate agreement to carry out demarcation in this area.

I want to draw your attention to the conversation, it is obvious that this is not just a conversation. Here, every word has its own meaning, we say and it has been recorded, and essentially, according to the logic of the Alma-Ata declaration, it means that we are not creating a new border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but reproducing the de jure one that had legal significance at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. borders based on the Alma-Ata Declaration. Why on the basis of the Alma-Ata Declaration, because the Alma-Ata Declaration has two meanings in the context of our conversation, that the 12 republics of the Soviet Union, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, agreed on two things, in the context of our conversation, the first is that the Soviet Union ceases to exist and the Soviet Republics become sovereign states, recognizing the existing borders within the framework of the Soviet Union as state borders and recording their inviolability," the Prime Minister noted.