A regular Cabinet meeting took place today, chaired by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

The Government has approved the rules of procedure for the organization and holding of sessions and joint working meetings between the state commission for the delimitation of the state border between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan. The rules of procedure define the relations of the delimitation commissions created by the two states and the procedures for holding sessions and organizing joint working meetings. As noted by Deputy Minister of Justice Ara Mkrtchyan, the basis of the document is the text of the rules of procedure reached and agreed upon between the commissions on November 30 of this year, according to which the work order must be approved by the governments of the two countries. The rules of procedure specifically stipulate that the date, time and place of the meetings are determined by agreement between the chairmen of the commissions. As a rule, the sessions are held consecutively in the territory of the Republic of Armenia or the Republic of Azerbaijan or on the border of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan or in the territory of third countries, as well as in the video conference format. In the event that the meetings are held in the territory of one of the states, the host party creates all the necessary conditions for their holding, including ensuring and guaranteeing the safety of all participants. The rules of procedure also defines other necessary regulations.

The Deputy Minister emphasized that the adoption of the draft will be an important step in recording the legal basis for organizing the work of the commissions, based on which the commissions will organize their further activities. "As a result of the adoption of the rules of procedure, the members of the border delimitation commissions of the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan are given the opportunity to create grounds for the delimitation and demarcation processes, development of their legal and technical aspects through the holding of meetings and the implementation of joint work, in order to later develop and sign a relevant document on the state border between the two states”.

The Prime Minister inquired from Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan whether the document regulates only technical organizational issues or it also refer to a substantive issues. In response, Mher Grigoryan stated: "At the moment, organizational issues, that is, how we will approach and organize the meetings. In the next stage, we should develop a joint regulation, which will be more substantive, because with that document we should already describe the methodology and define exactly what we mean by the definition of a map and what we mean by saying a legal document. I think that after agreeing on that methodology, we will continue the work with concrete documents and the discussion of topographic maps."

According to Nikol Pashinyan, the delimitation process is being put on an institutional basis for the first time, which is very important.

The government adopted a decision “On the assignment of property,” which proposes to assign to the State Property Management Committee 4 real estate and 1 movable property already owned by the state. During the current year, as part of the confiscation of property of illegal origin, 4 reconciliation agreements were signed, within the framework of which 6 units of real estate and one unit of movable property were transferred to the Republic of Armenia, the total estimated market value of which is 2 billion 100 million AMD, and about 79 million AMD was returned to the the Republic of Armenia.

As Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan noted, property rights of the Republic of Armenia have already been registered for 5 of these objects. She reported that the list of real estate also includes 3 land plots adjacent to the Yerablur military pantheon, returned to the state by Vachagan Ghazaryan, the former head of the security service of the 3rd President.

According to the decision on subsidy programs subject to co-financing from the state budget, it is planned to co-finance a number of subsidy programs of 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 by allocating 3,993,815.5 thousand AMD. As noted by Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Gnel Sanosyan, the decision provides for a number of changes and allocations.

The Prime Minister presented the subsidy programs for which money was allocated according to today's Government’s decision.