NSS chief believes that Azerbaijan will leave occupied territories of Armenia as a result of border delimitation

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YEREVAN, 28 October. /ARKA/. Director of the National Security Service of Armenia Armen Abazyan did not rule out today that Azerbaijani troops will leave the occupied territories of Armenia as a result of border delimitation process./pp

Journalists asked Abazyan what the NSS is doing to restore Armenia's sovereign territory, 200 square kilometres of which are occupied by Azerbaijan./pp 'You know that the delimitation process is in progress. Recently the heads of the Armenian and Azerbaijani border delimitation commissions signed a regulation on joint work. It was ratified by the Armenian Parliament and the President of Azerbaijan. This process will be consistent,’ he told reporters on Monday./pp

On 23 October, the Armenian National Assembly ratified the Armenian-Azerbaijani agreement on border delimitation./pp

Signed on 30 August, the agreement includes ‘regulations’ for the joint activities of the Armenian and Azerbaijani government commissions involved in the delimitation process./pp

It states that the process will be based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, in which the newly independent former Soviet republics recognised each other's Soviet-era borders, unless otherwise agreed./pp

The regulation and the documents to be adopted on its basis will complement the legal framework to ensure the full progress of the delimitation process./pp

On 26 September, Armenia's Constitutional Court found the draft regulations (rules of procedure) to be in compliance with the country's basic law. -0-/p