Baku and Yerevan to hold another round of border talks in January

Baku and Yerevan will hold another round of talks on the territorial issue in January. This statement was made by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on January 7.

"This month <...> another meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian commissions on delimitation should take place in order to continue the solution of the issue," he said in an interview with local TV channels, broadcast by Report.az agency.

According to the head of state, this will happen at the initiative of Azerbaijan.

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Earlier, on October 23, 2024, it became known that the National Assembly of Armenia ratified the provisions on delimitation of the border with Azerbaijan in the first reading. 67 deputies voted for the adoption of the draft. They assume that disputes between the republics will be resolved not militarily or by force, but on a special platform.

On August 30, Yerevan and Baku signed a provision on joint activities of commissions on border delimitation. Later, political scientist Artur Ataev told Izvestia that the peace agreement between the countries does not guarantee a complete cessation of hostilities in the future, the document will only stabilize the situation for a while.

Prior to that, on July 20, Aliyev expressed fears that Armenia's documents stipulating territorial claims to the republic could become a barrier to the conclusion of a peace agreement.

The relations between the two countries have been aggravated also against the background of disputed ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh. On October 5, 2023, Pashinyan signed a declaration recognizing Azerbaijan's borders, which included Nagorno-Karabakh. Despite this, there are still periodic armed clashes on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia.