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The joint Armenian-Azerbaijani commission on border delimitation and demarcation has not yet met due to "some technicalities", Armenia's Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan told reporters ahead of the session of Armenia-EU Partnership Council on Wednesday.

“You are right, the meeting didn’t take place but I can assure you that we will continue our talks about organizing this meeting. There are some technicalities to be agreed by the sides. And hopefully, in the upcoming days and weeks, we will finally have this meeting,” he said in response to a question.

Asked weather Baku is ready to start negotiations based on Yerevan’s vision of peace with Azerbaijan, suggesting to discuss also the rights and security of those people living in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), Mirzoyan said: 

"Well, actually, as you said, we published our vision of the peace process. And at first, we said that in the points suggested by Azerbaijan there is nothing unacceptable for the Armenian side but these points do not address the whole agenda, the whole spectrum of the existing issues of the potential and expected peace treaty. And here for us is crucial to discuss the rights and issue of security in Nagorno-Karabakh as well as the status of Nagorno-Karabakh. We also think that it is important to continue these negotiations on the peace treaty in the frame of and according to the mandate of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmanship. So far, we haven’t heard a positive reaction from Azerbaijan to these points. But you know that efforts are being made in order to have these negotiations possible. So I can only stress our readiness and our commitment to have peace and stability in our region. But to have this we need two sides."