Armenia ruling force MP: Tavush-Gazakh sector border delimitation process technically completed

The Armenia-Azerbaijan border delimitation process in the Tavush-Gazakh sector has been technically completed. Armen Khachatryan, an MP from the ruling majority Civil Contract Faction and Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Defense and Security of the National Assembly of Armenia, informed the RFE/RL Armenian Service about this.

"’Technically completed’ means that the sector through which the Armenian-Azerbaijani border passes, in accordance with the Almaty Declaration [of 1991], has been recorded, reaffirmed. That is, those [border-marking] posts are installed at the crossing points of the border of Soviet Armenia and Soviet Azerbaijan," Khachatryan noted.

The Armenian government had announced Thursday that 20 border markers were placed on the border with Azerbaijan.

How many kilometers of territory has been delimitated so far has not been officially confirmed yet. But several Armenian ruling force lawmakers have told the RFE/RL Armenian Service that it is about 10 to 12 kilometers.

Civil Contract Faction MP Vahe Ghalumyan, who is the brother of Hayk Ghalumyan, Governor of Tavush Province, said that according to his information, the distance between each of the aforementioned border markers is 500 meters. And if 20 markers have already been installed, then we are talking about around 10 kilometers which can be considered already delimitated.