During the meeting with the representatives of the Armenian community of Moldova, Pashinyan was asked why they decided to take the 1975 maps as a basis for the border demarcation of Armenia and Azerbaijan. “The problem is not the date, but the need to take any map as a basis.
By and large, there are no big differences in the territory of Armenia between the maps of 1969, 1975, and other years. We noticed an interesting dynamic: the Encyclopedia of the Soviet Union was published several times. Still, as the territory of the Republic of Armenia, it is fixed at 29 thousand 800 square kilometers.
Different maps have differences in nuances and locations, but there are no differences in terms of the total area,” Pashinyan said and then he added: “The problem is not that there is a mystery in some number, but that something should be taken as a basis for delimitation. In this case, we are talking about the maps approved by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR in 1975.”
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