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We are in favor of the soonest start of the demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday.

"It does not refer to the Karabakh region and the [conflict] settlement issues. This is a purely bilateral issue which we have been proposing to start working on for about a year now, setting up a [border] delimitation and demarcation commission for it, and offering us as a consultant in that commission—given that the General Staff and other structures of the Russian Federation have maps that reflect the different stages of the formation of the Soviet Union, and the changes in its administrative borders and the borders between the Union republics. Just yesterday I communicated with my Armenian colleague on this topic. There are corresponding proposals from the parties, as in order to create a commission, first of all, it is necessary to agree on which conditions. These conditions are now being discussed. There are disagreements there. Our position is clear: there is a need to sit down and resolve, within the framework of the officially created commission, all the issues that have not been agreed yet," Lavrov added.

According to him, a respective agreement in principle was reached during the meeting of the leaders of Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in Sochi, Russia—in December 2021.

"And even during the communication with the press, a hope was expressed that the commission will be established by the end of 2021. But again life is more complicated, the Armenian side has new proposals, we are passing them on to Baku. Let's see how to do so that it [i.e. the commission] it is launched as soon as possible. Let me repeat that there are disagreements about what needs to be done so that it starts working. It will be hard. During the discussion of this topic, we were convinced that it would probably be optimal to set up that commission, including on its agenda issues that require priority solution," the Russian FM concluded.

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