BAKU, Azerbaijan

The border delimitation commissions of Azerbaijan and Armenia on Friday convened at the border for the 10th time, officials said.

The meeting, chaired by Azerbaijan's Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev and his Armenian counterpart Mher Grigoryan, took place along the border between the two countries.

During the meeting, they discussed the next phase of border delimitation work, including which sections of the border will be addressed and in what order.

Following the meeting, Mustafayev and Grigoryan also discussed issues concerning transportation routes between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

Azerbaijan and Armenia ratified last week their first-ever bilateral agreement on the statute on the joint activity of commissions for border delimitation.

The regulation was signed on Aug. 30 this year.

Tensions between Baku and Yerevan have persisted since 1991, when the Armenian military occupied Karabakh, a territory internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, along with seven adjacent regions.

Most of the territory was reclaimed by Azerbaijan during a 44-day war in the fall of 2020, which concluded with a Russian-brokered peace agreement that initiated the process of normalization and border demarcation talks.

In September 2023, Azerbaijan established full sovereignty over Karabakh following an "anti-terrorist operation," after which separatist forces in the region surrendered.

*Writing by Muhammed Enes Calli in Istanbul