"Armenia recognises Azerbaijan's territorial integrity of 86,600 square kilometres, assuming that Azerbaijan recognises Armenia's territorial integrity as 29,800 square kilometres. The 86,600 square kilometres also includes Nagorno-Karabakh."
Nikol Pashinyan · 2023-05-22
Pashinyan at a press conference in Yerevan on 22 May 2023, articulating Armenia's reciprocal recognition of Azerbaijan's Soviet-era borders, the first explicit Armenian recognition that Karabakh fell within Azerbaijani territory. Four months later, Azerbaijan launched the September 2023 offensive.