Azerbaijan, Armenia achieve big progress during Brussels negotiations - Russian analyst
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 9. Big progress was
achieved during the negotiations in Brussels, Director of the
Russian Institute of Political Studies, analyst Sergey Markov told
Trend .
Markov made the remark commenting on the agreements reached
following the meeting in the Belgian capital between President of
Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol
Pashinyan, which was held with the mediation and participation of
the President of the Council of the European Union (EU) Charles
Michel.
The analyst noted that there are several important aspects of
the negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Brussels.
'First, there were serious, substantive negotiations, which
lasted more than four hours. Serious step forward was made during
them,' he said. 'Firstly, the parties decided to create a Joint
Border Commission which is expected to be able to speed up work on
the delimitation and demarcation of the border [between the two
countries]. So far, Armenia largely disrupted this work, but now it
has expressed its readiness to move in this direction.'
'Secondly, the desire of both parties to seriously engage in the
preparation of a future peace treaty was expressed. The peace
agreement should fix the main thing - the mutual recognition of
borders, that is, the recognition by Armenia that Karabakh is
Azerbaijan,' Markov further said.
The analyst stressed that the European Union can provide
assistance in clearing mines from the Azerbaijani territories
liberated from Armenian occupation [in the 2020 Second Karabakh
War].
'The problem of mines is a huge problem for the restoration of
the liberated territories. They are heavily mined. Armenia didn't
hand over all the maps of minefields, and those which were provided
are 75 percent useless,' he also noted.
'If the European Union, with its vast experience in
mine-clearing of large territories, could help in this issue, this
would be a very serious step forward,' added Markov.
Tags:
- Brussels
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- negotiations
- Sergey Markov
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