Messenger.ge, Georgia
Tuesday, March 29, 2005, #056 (0830)
News in brief:
Georgia, Azerbaijan discuss border demarcation
A two-day meeting of the Azerbaijani-Georgian Commission for Delimitation of
the Azerbaijan/Georgia border began in Tbilisi on Monday, Black Sea Press
reports.
The sides will continue working on establishing the coordinates of the
interstate border, only 40 percent of which has so far been agreed.
Garib Mamedov, the chairman of the Azeri 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 border under discussion agreement had been achieved
regarding only five of them.
Mamedov stated that Azerbaijan was not prepared to cede that part of the
Keshish-Dag territory on which a monastery complex stands, as Azerbaijan
considers it to be of strategic importance: from there Azerbaijani, Georgian
and Armenian territory can be seen.