YEREVAN — The Armenian government has released the text of the regulation of the commissions on Delimitation and Border Security between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which was signed on August 30.
The regulation is included in the agenda of the upcoming September 5 Cabinet meeting.
The agreement outlines the joint activities of their respective commissions dealing with the border delimitation process. The commissions will rely on the 1991 Alma Ata Declaration as the fundamental principle for the delimitation process of the state border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“If in the future the [separate] agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan provides for other regulations, then this fundamental principle will be brought into conformity with the principles defined by the above-mentioned agreement,” reads the document released by the Armenian government.
One of the six other articles of the regulations envisions the possibility of “optimizing” the heavily militarized frontier for humanitarian, cultural, and economic reasons. According to Ruben Galchyan, a leading Armenian cartographer, this means the two governments could “deviate” from Soviet maps to delineate at least some border sections.
