Azerbaijan and Armenia Begin Peaceful Border Demarcation Process and Install First Border Pillar

 Azerbaijan and Armenia have launched a peaceful border demarcation procedure and installed the first border fence on the joint border, while "expert groups of the two countries continue to work".

This was reported by the Azertag news agency and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan the day before.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan posted a photo taken at the border on Facebook and wrote: "The first border pillar has been installed on the Tavus-Gazakh section of the Armenia-Azerbaijan state border."

According to Azertag, on 23 April 2024, as part of the process of refining the coordinates based on geodetic measurements, the first border marker was installed on the border between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia. 

In accordance with the agreements reached at the 8th 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, the expert groups of the countries began to refine the coordinates based on geodetic measurements on the ground on the border between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia on 23 April 2024. 

Earlier, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that his country was not going to start a war over Nagorno-Karabakh. According to him, Armenia "has no ambitions beyond the internationally recognised borders".

"And we hope that the territorial integrity of Armenia will be restored in the process of demarcation," Pashinyan added.