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“There is no state property cadastre in international law. That is, when states are members of an international organization, for instance the UN, those international organizations do not establish the existing borders of the states. Accordingly, states can have internationally recognized borders only by mutual agreement,” expert on international law Levon Gevorgyan told a conference in Yerevan on Thursday.

According to the specialist, a mutual agreement in international law can be reflected in several ways: signing an agreement, setting up a professional commission to deal with border demarcations or submitting the issue to an international court by mutual consent.

"There has never been an international process on the delimitation and demarcation of borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan in a bilateral format. This means that the term “internationally recognized border” is in fact nothing more than a worthless claim,” Levon Gevorgyan said.

According to the expert, those who use this term often refer to four resolutions of the UN Security Council, however, he said, the UN Security Council is not a subject that determines the ownership of the territory and when the UN Security Council resolutions name a border as a part of Azerbaijan, it simply expresses the position of the 13 states that have signed the resolutions.

“Thus, this is a political rather than legal position,” he added.