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Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 13 / Trend S. Agayeva /
The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry does not consider the possibility of exchanging the territories to delimitate the state border with Georgia.
"The issue of territorial exchange in the border area Keshikchi dag is not a matter of debate," Elkhan Polukhov, spokesman for the Azerbaijani foreign ministry, said commenting on the statement by Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze.
She said that Georgia is not going to yield a complex to Azerbaijan.
"The issue of passing the monastery to Azerbaijan can never be included on the agenda," Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said.
"We have not reached an agreement on the delimitation issue yet. But the issue of handing over the monastery will not be discussed," she stressed.
Several Georgian newspapers wrote today that the country offered Azerbaijan another piece of land including the village of Erisimedi instead of a section of the David Gareja Monastery, which is located in Azerbaijan.
The complex Keshikchi dag, which Georgians call David Gareji complex, is located on the uncoordinated side of the border with Georgia.
The parties dispute the ownership of the complex Keshikchi dag. Azerbaijani historians consider it as the monument of Albanian culture.
Taking into account a 480-kilometer state border between Azerbaijan and Georgia, about 180 kilometers have not been specified, Garib Mammadov, chairman of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Land and Cartography, told Trend.