AGREEMENTS SIGNED IN SOVIET YEARS, CAN’T BE BASIS FOR DEMARCATION OF ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN BORDER
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
16.09.2009 16:01 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Agreements signed in Soviet times between Armenia
and Georgia to determine the border, have no legal force. Today,
Yerevan and Tbilisi cannot determine the Armenian-Georgian border,
relying on these agreements, " Vahe Sargsyan , expert of the analytical
Mitk center told journalists in Yerevan today.
"A question arises: based on which agreement should Armenia and
Georgia agree over the Armenian-Georgian border? On November 6, 1921,
Armenia and Georgia signed an agreement on demarcation of the border,
but since the two countries were not subjects of international law,
contracts and agreements concluded in the Soviet era, including this
contract, have no legal force, " the expert said.
In addition, Vahe Sargsyan recalled that after independence, the
Supreme Council of Georgia declared that did not recognize the
contracts and agreements on the demarcation of borders concluded
in Soviet times. "Today, when the parties negotiate over the
Armenian-Georgian border the treaty of 1921 cannot serve as a basis
for determining the border with Georgia," the expert said.
According to him, Yerevan and Tbilisi, during possible conclusion of
a treaty on border demarcation should take as a basis proposals of the
Paris peace conference. "This report says that if Armenia and Georgia
before signing the Sevres peace treaty are not able to implement
suggestions of the report, the issue of the Armenian-Georgian border
should become a matter of the League of Nations. It turns out there
have been no clearly defined boundaries between Armenia and Georgia
for 20 years.
Since the legal successor of the League of Nations is the UN, the
proposals of the Paris Peace Conference must become the agreement,
defining the Armenian-Georgian border," Vahe Sargsyan said.
The Paris Peace Conference was convened after the First World War
in 1918. The outcome of the conference was the Treaty of Sevres,
accord eceived back western vilayets of Turkey and Kars region. Then,
on the initiative of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson the League of
Nations was established, which formally ended its existence in 1946
in connection with formation of the UN. However, actually the League
of Nations ceased its operations in 1939.