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Armenian PM: We’ll hand Azerbaijan some territory to avoid a new war
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On a visit to the frontier Tuesday, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said the government has decided to demarcate and delimit the entire border, including returning areas that fall in Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized territory but have been controlled by Armenia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
While Azerbaijan has demanded the return of the exclaves, Yerevan hoped they could form part of an exchange, with Azerbaijani troops withdrawing from the estimated 215 square kilometers of Armenian territory they took during a brief invasion in 2022.
No mention was made of whether Azerbaijan would agree to hand over an Armenian exclave within its borders, roughly equal in size to the four villages.
Armenia has sought closer ties with the West since the start of Russia’s all-out war in Ukraine, with Pashinyan telling POLITICO last year that Moscow is no longer a reliable security guarantor.
On Tuesday, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited the former Nagorno-Karabakh region, inside his country’s borders but which was until last year under Armenian control since a war in the 1990s.
An Azerbaijani offensive in September conquered the territory, triggering a mass exodus of its 100,000 Armenian residents.
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