MEETING OF BILATERAL COMMISSION FOR DEMARCATION OF BORDER BETWEEN
AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA
TBILISI. MARCH 28. ARMINFO-BLACK SEA PRESS. Today a two-day meeting of
the Azerbaijanian-Georgian Commission for Delimitation of the
Azerbaijan/Georgia border began in Tbilisi, the Azerbaijanian State
Committee for Land and Cartography reports. The sides will continue
working on coordinating the coordinates of the interstate border.
Garib Mamedov, the chairman of the State Committee for Land and
Cartography, said that the sides had prepared a topographic map of
border sections that had been discussed by the countries. He added
that of 24 sections on the Azerbaijanian-Georgian border under
discussion by the sides agreement had been achieved only on five of
them.
He said that part of the Keshish-Dag territory on which monastery
complex is belonged to Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is not going to cede it
to Georgia, as it is of strategic importance. From there territories
of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia are well seen. Presently the exact
border extension between Georgia and Azerbaijan had been coordinated
by about 40%.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress