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Armenia's Deputy Foreign Minister Vahan Kostanyan on Thursday had a meeting with the delegation headed by Toivo Klaar, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia.

During the meeting, the parties discussed the recent developments on regional security and establishment of peace. In this context, Kostanyan called attention to the destructive statements made by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in his recent interview, which aim to deviate from the peace agenda, the Armenian Foreign Ministry reported.

"Vahan Kostanyan stressed that the former USSR member states, including Armenia and Azerbaijan, recognize each other's borders in accordance with the Alma-Ata Declaration of December 1991, and the delimitation work should be carried out on the basis of the latest maps available at the time of the dissolution of the USSR. The Deputy Minister also emphasized the imperative of the withdrawal of the Azerbaijani armed forces from the sovereign territory of Armenia," the ministry said in a statement.

"Vahan Kostanyan noted that Azerbaijan is hindering the process of unblocking regional infrastructures, the 4 well-known principles of which — sovereignty, jurisdiction, reciprocity and equality — have been previously agreed between the parties," it added.