Yerevan, Baku border delimitation commissions due to meet in Moscow on May 16-17

Ararat Mirzoyan

DUSHANBE, May 12. /TASS/: A meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian commissions on border delimitation and border security is scheduled to take place in Moscow next week, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said on Thursday.

"I want to inform you that we had contacts with the Azerbaijani colleagues on the issue of setting up commissions on border delimitation and border security," the top diplomat said as he met with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Dushanbe.

"And it seems that there is an agreement with Deputy Prime Minister [of Russia Alexey] Overchuk that plans are to meet on communications in Moscow on May 16-17, and there is also an agreement that a bilateral meeting on delimitation and border security will be organized there, in Moscow, on the same days," Mirzoyan said.

Under the agreement achieved at an April 6 meeting in Brussels with the participation of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and European Council President Charles Michel, Baku and Yerevan were to form a joint border commission for border delimitation. Its first meeting was planned to be held before the end of April.