Armenian PM: 'War Could Erupt' Unless Border Demarcation Starts

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Tuesday that Armenia would soon need to demarcate its borders with neighboring Azerbaijan or else "a war could erupt by the end of the week."

Pashinyan spoke to residents at the border village of Voskepar about the importance of demarcation efforts, saying, "We shouldn't allow the war to start."

To prevent war and to achieve a peace deal with Azerbaijan, Armenia would have to give up four Azerbaijani villages that Armenia has controlled for some 30 years.
The demarcation effort would establish mutually agreed upon borders based on 1991 Soviet maps. Armenia and Azerbaijan have had border disagreements since achieving independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union.