Azerbaijan, Armenia revive talks on border delimitation amid peace efforts

Azerbaijan and Armenia revived talks Thursday on border delimitation as peace efforts intensified.

A statement by the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said the fifth meeting of the State Commission on the Delimitation of the State Border between Baku and Yerevan was held on the border between the two countries.

It indicated that the meeting took place under the chairmanship of the Azerbaijani and Armenian prime ministers and said the parties discussed "several organizational and procedural matters and proceeded with their discussion on delimitation issues."

The statement said both sides agreed to start working on talks for a draft regulation on joint activities of the state commission on border delimitation and the commission on the delimitation of the state border and border security.

"The parties also had come to an agreement to intensify the meetings of the commissions. The parties also agreed to determine the date and venue for the next meeting of the Commissions," it said.

Relations between Baku and Yerevan have remained tense since 1991 when the Armenian military occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, and seven adjacent regions.

Most of the territory was liberated by Azerbaijan during a war in the fall of 2020, which ended after a Russian-brokered peace agreement that also opened the door to normalization.

Azerbaijan established full sovereignty in Karabakh after an "anti-terrorism operation" in September, after which separatist forces in the region surrendered.