During the discussion of the report on the execution of the state budget for 2022 in the parliament of the republic on June 5, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan stated that Armenia and Azerbaijan had not reached a final agreement on which map should be the basis for the work on the delimitation of the border between the two countries. "However, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had no objections to the 1975 map at the last meeting in Chişinău," he added.

"There are obligations to carry out these works by the Alma-Ata Declaration (1991), which the parties agreed on at the Prague meeting on October 6, 2022, but there are no agreements on a specific map," Mirzoyan confirmed.

According to him, at the last meeting in Chişinău, the President of Azerbaijan did not object to using 1975 maps. At the same time, Mirzoyan explained that this is a map around which there is understanding and readiness to continue work, both on the part of the international community and Armenia. "It is acceptable for Armenia to recognize the territorial integrity of both countries according to the maps of 1975 and, on this basis, to start work on delimitation," the minister noted.

Also, commenting on the possible deployment of a Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) observation mission in the republic, Mirzoyan said that the statement of Armenia's allies in the CSTO should not legitimize Azerbaijan's claims.

According to him, Armenia has repeatedly explained the situation with the dispatch of the CSTO mission and is ready to do it again. "There are no preconditions for making such a decision. However, Yerevan expects that the text of the statement of the Collective Security Council (CSC) of the CSTO will indicate that in September 2022, the sovereign territory of Armenia, its border was violated. Therefore, there is a need to send a mission to the organization," he added.

"This, in our opinion, should be the minimum reaction of the military-political union, which we are a part of. For our partners, this statement has not been possible so far. But, without fixing the fact that the border of Armenia was violated as a result of the September aggression of last year, Baku's assertion that the border is not delimited. Therefore, one cannot speak of the invasion as legitimized," the official stated.

"Under these conditions, it is better for our allies not to make any statements than to make a statement that legitimizes the statements of Azerbaijan," the minister explained.

Moreover, Ararat Mirzoyan stated that visa liberalization is one of the issues on the agenda of Armenia and the member states of the European Union; it is being discussed and receives support in almost all cases, but a consensus position of the EU is needed. 

"We are actively discussing the issue of visa liberalization. It is on the agenda between us and the EU or between us and individual EU member states. However, to make such a decision in the EU, a consensus position is needed, and it has not yet been achieved," the head of Armenian diplomacy noted. Mirzoyan assured the parliamentarians that work in this direction continues.