(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 19. The US State
Department reacted to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's
remarks regarding the urgency of border demarcation with
Azerbaijan, Trend reports.
Vedant Patel, Principal Deputy Spokesperson of the US State
Department said during a briefing that the US continues to pay
close attention to this issue.
"This is an issue that we're continuing to pay close attention
to. It's something that not just the secretary, but Assistant
Secretary O'Brien as well as senior coordinator Bono are continuing
to focus on engaging with appropriate interlocutors," he
explained.
Pashinyan has stated that if discussions regarding the
delimitation and demarcation of the border with Azerbaijan are not
initiated by the end of the week, "it could potentially lead to
war".
"This means that at the end of the week there will be a war. And
I know what will happen at the end of this war," he noted.
Pashinyan emphasized that Armenia should prevent a war with
Azerbaijan, stressing the importance of border adjustments. He
asserted that there is a genuine opportunity to commence the
process of border delimitation and demarcation between the two
nations.
On 7 March, the seventh meeting of the State Commission on the
Delimitation of the State Border between the Republic of Azerbaijan
and the Republic of Armenia and the Commission on the Delimitation
of the State Border and Border Security between the Republic of
Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan was held on the border
between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia
under the chairmanship of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic
of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev and the Deputy Prime Minister of
the Republic of Armenia Mher Grigoryan.
The sides have exchanged views on delimitation issues, and have
commenced the negotiations on the draft Regulation on Joint
Activity of the State Commission on Delimitation of the State
Border Between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of
Armenia and the Commission on Delimitation of the State Border and
Border Security between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of
Azerbaijan, and discussed the drafts of relevant instructions on
the order of delimitation works.
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