Russian president submits agreement with Azerbaijan to Duma for ratification

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted for ratification to the State Duma the Russia- Azerbaijan agreement to fix the anchor line of land borders from the converging point of the Russian, Azerbaijani and Georgian borders to the Caspian Sea, RIA Novosti reported, citing the parliamentary lower chamber apparatus.

The treaty was signed in Baku on Sept.3, 2010.

The accompanying documents stress that this line corresponds to the former administrative border between Dagestan SSR and Azerbaijan SSR.

Russia is the first country with which Azerbaijan has signed an agreement on the state border.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry has reaffirmed that Russia and Azerbaijan no longer have territorial claims.

The border land between Russia and Azerbaijan is 284 km. The total length of the Russian state border is about 60,000 kilometers.


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