Delimitation of Armenian-Azerbaijani border unlikely to be completed before peace treaty signed- Pashinyan

YEREVAN, November 16. /ARKA/. The delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is unlikely to be completed before a peace treaty is signed or before it enters into force, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said today during a government Q&A session in parliament.

"We hoped that when the peace treaty were signed or when it entered into force, border delimitation would be completed. Now there are signs that this is not so realistic," he said.

According to him, Armenia proposes that both sides pull their troops behind the border that divided Soviet Armenia from Soviet Azerbaijan in 1990 and also set up a monitoring mechanism, assign border protection to border troops, fix the idea of the border line and then, in peaceful conditions, proceed to border delimitation that may last for years.

Earlier, Pashinyan said he wanted to sign a peace treaty with Azerbaijan by the end of this year and hoped that border delimitation would be completed before its signing.

Pashinyan also said that Azerbaijan must withdraw its troops from the territory of Armenia to where they were before May 12, 2021.

'The international community supports our position and we hope that the Collective Security Treaty Organization will do so as well,' Pashinyan said. -0-