evidence: Nevertheless, there are still some major issues that need to be resolved. The first and foremost is the territorial claim by Armenia to Azerbaijan contained in the reference in Armenia’s constitution to "reunification" with Karabakh, the Azerbaijani territory that Armenia had occupied for three decades. The preamble of the current Armenian constitution refers to the "pan-national aspirations" of ethnic Armenians as well as a 1990 declaration of independence[vi] – when Armenia was still part of the Soviet Union – that stipulates the unification of Armenia and what was then the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, part of Soviet Azerbaijan. [...] The border delineation process is also affected by the status of four remaining enclaves: the Armenian enclave of Artsvashen inside Azerbaijan, and the Azerbaijani enclaves of Barkhudarly, Yukhari Askipara, and Karki inside Armenia. These are all small parcels of land that were once inhabited by their respective ethnic groups but are now uninhabited and under the de facto control of the other side. Azerbaijani foreign policy chief Hikmet Hajiyev confirmed that there had been progress in bilateral talks, adding that the agreement on the border commission "should be seen as sufficient for the withdrawal of the EU contingent."[xiv] Azerbaijan has consistently opposed an EU monitoring mission that was deployed in Armenia in 2022[xv] to observe the situation on the border, arguing that the EU mission increases the risk of conflict.