what countries does armenia border?
Turkey Georgia Azerbaijan
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 In early April 1993 , the Armenian forces captured Kelbajar , a city outside the originally contested areas , causing international attention to the conflict . Turkey closed its border with Armenia , while the United Nations passed a resolution condemning the act . In the summer of 1993 , Armenian forces gained more territories and , by August controlled Fizuli , Jebrail , and Zangelan . By early 1994 , both countries were devastated by the war . On 5 May , the Bishkek Protocol was signed by the heads of the parliaments of Nagorno @-@ Karabakh , Armenia and Azerbaijan . The Nagorno @-@ Karabakh Republic , backed by Armenia , established de facto control of these lands . Nagorno @-@ Karabakh ( also known as Artsakh to Armenians ) remains internationally unrecognized and a de jure part of Azerbaijan . However , it is in de facto unified with Armenia . 

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 Armenia fiercely contested the legality of the operation and within two months declared its independence and seceded from the Soviet Union . Within several months , the fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia worsened and precipitated the open @-@ phased segment of the Nagorno @-@ Karabakh War . 

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 A number of Armenians joined the advancing 11th Soviet Red Army . Afterward , Turkey and the newly proclaimed Soviet republics in the Caucasus negotiated the Treaty of Kars , in which Turkey resigned from its claims to Batumi to Georgia in exchange for the Kars territory , corresponding to the modern @-@ day Turkish provinces of Kars , Iğdır , and Ardahan . The medieval Armenian capital of Ani , as well as the cultural icon of the Armenian people Mount Ararat , were located in the ceded area . Additionally , Joseph Stalin , then acting Commissar for Nationalities , granted the areas of Nakhchivan and Nagorno @-@ Karabakh ( both of which were promised to Armenia by the Bolsheviks in 1920 ) to Azerbaijan . 

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 Almost two years after the Republic of Armenia was established , on 23 April 1920 , the United States officially recognized it . Its frontiers were to be determined later . On 26 April 1920 , the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in Paris ( British Prime Minister Lloyd George , French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and Italian Prime Minister Francesco Saverio Nitti ) requested that the United States accept the mandate over Armenia and to make an Arbitral Decision to determine the boundaries of Armenia with Turkey . President Woodrow Wilson agreed to act as arbitrator and draw a mutually acceptable border between the two nations . In July 1920 , the US State Department founded the Committee upon the Arbitration of the Boundary between Turkey and Armenia , headed by William Westermann . The Treaty of Sèvres was signed on 10 August 1920 . On 28 September 1920 , the Committee submitted a report that defined the border between Armenia and Turkey . It guaranteed access to the Mediterranean sea for Armenia via Trebizond and proclaimed Turkey 's border regions demilitarization frontier line . 

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 Since Armenia 's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 , the Armenian government has not officially made any territorial claims to Turkey . However , the Armenian government has avoided " an explicit and formal recognition of the existing Turkish @-@ Armenian border . " In 2001 , Armenian president Robert Kocharyan stated that the " genocide recognition will not lead to legal consequences or territorial claims . " 
