No guarantees, but Armenia is ready - premier
ArmInfo.The Armenian authorities' readiness to start border delimitation from Tavush is not a guarantee
against war with Azerbaijan, Armenia's premier Nikol Pashinyan stated in Parliament on April 10.
"We are not against starting the delimitation process from the Tavush
region of Armenia and four villages of the Gazakh region of
Azerbaijan," he said.
According to him, in this context, questions are raised about whether
delimitation in this area guarantees the security of Armenia. "Answer
- it does not guarantee. But failure to resolve the issues guarantees
a consistent increase in threats to the country's security. And we
first of all need to neutralize this negative guarantee," he said.
This style of behavior of Yerevan, he pointed out, also does not
guarantee against a new attack on the territory of Armenia. "But the
opposite absolutely guarantees a new attack on the sovereign
territory of the Republic of Armenia. Delimitation in Tavush also
does not guarantee that Azerbaijan will agree, within the framework
of delimitation in other areas, to return vital territories of more
than 30 Armenian villages to Armenia," he said, emphasizing, however,
that delimitation must be carried out in any case.
Earlier, at a meeting with residents of the village of Voskepar in
Tavush, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan threatened war if the
Armenian side refused to transfer 4 villages to Baku. The topic of
delimitation of the border with Azerbaijan and territorial
concessions became relevant again after on March 9, the office of
Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev stated that as
part of the process of delimitation and demarcation of the border
with Armenia, "issues of the liberation of 4 exclave villages must be
resolved immediately."