The head of the Sweden Foreign Ministry, Tobias Billstrom, has positively appreciated the first step taken in the direction of the process of delimitation of the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
“This is very good news for Azerbaijan, Armenia and the entire region of the South Caucasus. Thanks to this positive step, we can see in the future significant progress in terms of economic growth and development of the region. Sweden is completely committed to this goal,” the minister wrote in the social network X.
On the eve of the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry, Armenia agreed to return the four villages of Azerbaijan, who have been under occupation since the beginning of the 1990s.
“The long-awaited historical event: according to the results of the 8th meeting of the State Commission on Delimitations of the State Border between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Armenia agreed to the return of 4 villages of Azerbaijan, which have been under the occupation since the beginning of the 1990s,” the publication on the social network of the X Press said -Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Ayhan Gadjizade.
On April 19, 2024, on the border between the Azerbaijan Republic and the Republic of Armenia, chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan of the Republic of Shakhin Mustafaeva and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Mger Grigoryan, the eighth meeting of the State Commission for the Delimitation of the State Border between the Azerbaijan Republic and the Republic of Armenia was held and commissions on delimitation of the state border and border security between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
At the initial stage of the process of delimitation, the parties previously agreed on the passage of separate segments of the border line directly between the settlements of Baganis (RA) – Bagans Irem (AR), the Osopear (RA) – Asagi Askipara (AR), Kirantz (RA) – Heirimly (AR ) and Berkaber (RA) – Gyzylgadzhila (Ar) in order to bring them into line with a legally justified inter -republican border that existed within the framework of the Soviet Union at the time of its collapse.