"The Russian [border] posts appeared there for a reason. What is happening now is a significant change in the situation. This means that we do not have a front line, but a border, and the border is a sign of peace," Pashinyan told the local press, cited by the Efe agency. The head of the Armenian executive stressed that, according to a protocol signed on Friday, Armenian and Azerbaijani guards will guard the border autonomously and without external help. Armenia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement on Friday to demarcate their northern border through the northeastern region of Tavush, under Armenian control since the 1990s. In line with the Alma-Ata Declaration (currently Almaty, Kazakhstan) of December 1991, which certified the Soviet dissolution and the advent of fifteen new independent republics, Azerbaijan will regain control of four localities. Azerbaijanis and Armenians have spent years trying to demarcate their more than a thousand kilometers of border, even though they have already agreed, at the time, on the exact area of their territories. Pashinyan recently announced that the Russian border guards stationed at the Zvartnots international airport in Yerevan since 1991 will withdraw before August 1 of this year. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Armenia was at war with Azerbaijan over the possession of the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and could not guarantee the security of its borders, so in 1992 an agreement was signed with Russia on "the status of the border guards of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Armenia". By virtue of this document, Russian forces are also stationed on Armenia's border with Turkey and Iran. The Kremlin, which has a military base in Armenia, also reported this week that it would withdraw Russian peacekeeping troops in Nagorno-Karabakh, which was integrated into Azerbaijan in 2023 after a successful military operation carried out by Baku. This news comes at a time of great tension between Russia and Armenia, which has also frozen its participation in the post-Soviet military alliance (OTSC) due to its inaction regarding Azerbaijani incursions into sovereign Armenian territory. Read Also: Ukraine: Russia will create a drone production center (Portuguese version)