Speaker: Armenia recognises Azerbaijan's 86,600 sq km territory along with Karabakh, enclaves

Armenian Speaker Alen Simonyan has reconfirmed Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s remarks that Yerevan recognises Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity within 86,600 square kilometres, including Karabakh and some enclaves.

He made the remarks in parliament on May 23, Caliber.Az reports, citing Armenian media.

"If you are interested in my personal opinion, then I fully share the opinions expressed by the prime minister the day before [on May 22]," he said.

At a press conference on May 22, Pashinyan stated that the territory of Azerbaijan within 86,600 square kilometres, which Armenia recognises, includes Karabakh and Azerbaijan's enclaves.

After a trilateral meeting between Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, EU Council President Charles Michel and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels on May 14, Michel stressed that both sides recognised each other’s territorial integrity on the basis of the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration.

Michel’s statement explicitly specified the square kilometre area of both countries. This means Armenia has officially recognised the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast as part of Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan’s enclaves are the Gazakh district's Baghanis-Ayrim, Ashaghi Askipara and Yukhari Askipara, Barkhudarli, Sofulu villages and Nakhchivan's Karki village.

Armenians occupied these settlements as a result of hostilities in the early 1990s, during the first Karabakh war.