"Hraparak" newspaper wrote:
Yesterday, the Armenian-Azerbaijani border demarcation commissions decided to continue the border demarcation from the north, from the crossing point of the borders of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, and then move in the south direction, from north to south to the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan with Iran.
In other words, they will start from Tavush and then move south, supposedly the start of the process will be from the only crossing point of the Armenian-Georgian-Azerbaijani border, Papakar hill.
This includes about 700 kilometers of the approximately 1000 kilometer Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Although the authorities have expressed their desire to continue demarcation from the territories occupied by Azerbaijan in 2021-2022 - Vardenis, Jermuk and other parts - it is obvious that the decision-maker is Aliyev. and, according to everyone, the occupied areas may never be demarcated.
Last spring, Yerevan and Baku demarcated about 12 kilometers in the areas of Tavush and Ghazakh, the Armenian side handed over four villages to Azerbaijan.
At that time, Nikol Pashinyan called it a pilot demarcation, the process took place before the regulation of demarcation commissions was approved.
According to Garnik Danielyan, Member of the Armenia Alliance, representative of the Sacred Movement, as a result of the fake process called border demarcation, we will lose territories in Tavush again, in particular, in several parts of the Kirants-Voskepar road section, Azerbaijan will enter our territory: "As a result of all this, the enemy will take control of Yerevan in several parts. - The Tbilisi interstate road, creating serious challenges in terms of strategy and security."
By occupying the most important positions, Azerbaijan will make the Republic of Armenia even more vulnerable.
The deputy draws attention to the fact that there is no activity of a joint commission, if the two countries really wanted to demarcate, they would not have given lands from Kirants first.
"Let them start from Tavush, reach Jermuk, etc.," but, according to Danielyan, Aliyev decides everything and achieves desired concessions with threats.
He recalls the "announcement" of the President of Azerbaijan at the beginning of the year, with which he announced that there will be a meeting of the border demarcation commissions in January, threatened to take the corridor in Syunik by force, etc. and received further concessions. "It is obvious that Aliyev's goal is to extract further concessions and conquer new areas of strategic importance through repeated blackmails, threats and ultimatums."
To remind, during the process carried out in Kiratz, the authorities assured the residents of Tavush that during the real border demarcation, Azerbaijan will return to Armenia more than 700 hectares of land seized from Berkaber village, but Garnik Danielyan is almost sure that Armenia will not get back even a centimeter of land. "We also gave hectares in Kiratz, what did we get in return, nothing?"
According to Tigran Abrahamyan, deputy of the "I have honor" faction, expert on security issues, starting from Tavush is vital for Baku, because the RA government earlier declared the so-called enclave villages - Verin Voskepar, Sofulu and Barkhudarlu villages - to be Azerbaijani. not only the internal communications of the Tavush marz, but will also put the Tavush route to Bagratashe - the highway going to the Armenian-Georgian border and the gas pipeline from Georgia to Armenia.
Another serious problem will be the road from Ijevan to Berd, a part of which will come under the control of Azerbaijan."
The deputy does not rule out that Aliyev gets what he wants and stops the process. According to the regulation signed by both sides, it is no longer possible to return the status of the agreed / demarcated areas or the changes made to the previous point.
