Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday that a peace deal with Armenia was closer than ever before, as teams from the two countries headed to the border to start demarcation work, hoping to end decades of territorial disputes.
Aliyev's optimism over a potential agreement between the arch foes comes after a flurry of progress towards border delimitation that has sparked protests in Armenia, still bruised after Baku seized control of Nagorno-Karabakh in a lightning offensive last autumn.
