UN Secretary-General António Guterres welcomes the agreement reached between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Statement released by the UN Secretary General's spokesman Stephane Dujarric says. 

"The Secretary-General is closely following the process of normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He welcomes the agreement reached on 19 April between the relevant state commissions on the delimitation of the state border between Armenia and Azerbaijan and calls on the parties to continue the delimitation and demarcation of the remaining sections of the border and to resolve all outstanding bilateral issues in order to achieve full normalization of relations," the statement says.

Yesterday, the eighth session of the commissions on the delimitation of the state border between the two countries was held at the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan under the chairmanship of Deputy Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan Mher Grigoryan and Shahin Mustafayev.

A protocol was signed as a result of the meeting. The sides agreed to agree on the date and place of the next meeting. According to the Armenian Foreign Ministry, as a result of the meeting, a preliminary agreement was reached to bring the border sections Baganis - Baganis Ayrum, Voskepar - Ashag Askipara, Kirants - Khairumli and Berkaber - Kyzyl Hajil to the legally established inter-republican border that existed at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union.