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Armenia and Azerbaijan should withdraw troops from each other's border areas, Ambassador Andrea Wiktorin, head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, told a press conference in Yerevan on Monday.

"It is our hope that both sides withdraw their troops and that everybody is then really going into the work of delimitation and demarcation," Wiktorin said.

When asked to clarify what she meant by saying “both sides withdraw their troops”, the EU envoy said: “It is stated that there are one or two spots where also Armenian forces are, let’s say, in the border region. And you need to have clear delimitation and demarcation. This was the general wording used in Brussels.”

In his press remarks after the Brussels talks with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Sunday, European Council President Charles Michel said the two leaders “confirmed their unequivocal commitment to the 1991 Almaty Declaration and the respective territorial integrity of Armenia (29,800 km2) and Azerbaijan (86,600 km2).”