Armenia's Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan held a meeting on Thursday with a delegation led by Toivo Klaar, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia.

During the meeting, the parties discussed recent developments in regional security and the establishment of peace. In this context, Kostanyan drew attention to the destructive statements made by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in his recent interview, which aim to deviate from the peace agenda, the Armenian Foreign Ministry reported.

Vahan Kostanyan stressed that the former USSR member states, including Armenia and Azerbaijan, recognize each other's borders by the Alma-Ata Declaration of December 1991, and the delimitation work should be carried out based on the latest maps available at the time of the dissolution of the USSR. The Deputy Minister also emphasized the imperative of withdrawing the Azerbaijani armed forces from the sovereign territory of Armenia.

Vahan Kostanyan noted that Azerbaijan is hindering the process of unblocking regional infrastructures, the four well-known principles of which-sovereignty, jurisdiction, reciprocity, and equality-have been previously agreed between the parties.

Concluding his two-day visit in Armenia, Toivo Klaar posted on X: “Ending two days of good meetings in Armenia. Emphasized EU's continued support for a comprehensive Armenia-Azerbaijan peace settlement. Encouraged by substantive bilateral contacts between Baku and Yerevan & looking forward to also fully re-engage with Azerbaijani interlocutors following elections.”