Chairman of the Federation Council Matviyenko offered Armenia and Azerbaijan Soviet maps for demarcation 
The demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border will be carried out using Soviet maps from the Russian Ministry of Defense. The parties agreed to use this very source in order to outline new borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This was announced by the chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, her words are reported by the website of the Federation Council.
“Russia has offered assistance, given that the maps of the Soviet period are kept only by us in the Ministry of Defense. They are calibrated, precise and define the exact boundaries between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Negotiations can be confidently based on these cards, “Matvienko said at a meeting with the speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament Sahiba Gafarova.
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