Parliament ratifies Armenian - Azerbaijani agreement on border delimitation commissions

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YEREVAN, October 23. /ARKA/. The Armenian National Assembly has ratified today the Armenian-Azerbaijani agreement on border delimitation./pp

Signed on 30 August, the agreement includes ‘regulations’ for the joint activities of Armenian and Azerbaijani government commissions engaged 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 recognized each other's Soviet-era borders, unless otherwise agreed./pp

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

On 26 September, the Constitutional Court of Armenia found the draft regulations (rules of procedure) compliant with the country's basic law./pp

The agreement was endorsed by MPs from the pro-government Civil Contract party. The opposition factions –Hayastan (Armenia) and Pativ Unem (I Have Honor) boycotted the voting. -0-/p