The border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Archive photoYEREVAN, May 19.Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan stated that the meeting of the commission on the delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border did not take place due to technical reasons. Earlier, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan stated that a bilateral meeting on delimitation and border security would be organized in Moscow on May 16-17. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev expressed his disappointment that Armenia canceled the meeting on the last day and later refused the proposal for a new one.Aliyev accused Yerevan of disrupting the border delimitation process»As for the working meeting of the commissions on border delimitation, due to the lack of a technical agreement, we have not been able to organize it yet. We hope that technical issues will be resolved and the working group will meet,» Grigoryan said. confirmed that the Armenian side formed its part of the commission. According to him, the commission will be bilateral, if necessary, it can request assistance from Moscow and Brussels. Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov told Turkish media on March 11 that Azerbaijan had submitted a proposal to Armenia on the basic principles for establishing relations between the two states. Leyla Abdullayeva, head of the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, explained to RIA Novosti that Baku's proposals reflect five basic principles for normalizing relations with Armenia, in particular, mutual recognition by the states of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the two countries, and the renunciation of territorial claims. The Armenian Foreign Ministry stated that Yerevan responded to Azerbaijan's proposals and turned to the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs with a request to organize negotiations on a peace treaty with Baku based on the UN Charter, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Helsinki Final Act.
The Foreign Ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Dushanbe
