ArmInfo.The actual Azerbaijani invasion of the territory of Armenia, the appearance of the Azerbaijan Armed Forces at Lake Sev Lich is a consequence of specific geopolitical impulses. Already today it can be noted with confidence that this incident is in no way a local border incident, the lawmaker of the parliamentary faction "My Step" Artur Hovhannisyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
Since May 12, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces have entered into the territory of Armenia up to 3.5 kilometers in order to establish control over Lake Sev Lich. On May 13, Yerevan officially turned to the CSTO for help in this regard. And on May 14, acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan turned personally to Russian President Vladimir Putin for help. According to the latest data, as a result of negotiations, the saboteurs retreated 2 kilometers, however, part of them is still on the territory of Armenia. Today - in the morning of May 19, the Ministry of Defense of Armenia issued a statement in which it expressed hope for a favorable conclusion of the negotiations and a peaceful settlement of the situation around Lake Sev Lich. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense stressed that in the absence of a solution to the problem within a reasonable time frame, the Armenian Armed Forces reserve the right to resolve the problem in other ways, including through the use of force.
"It is known that the territory of Armenia, where at this stage the Azerbaijani military are still located, is completely under the control of the Armenian Armed Forces in terms of communication. Thus, if desired, our military may well withdraw the Azerbaijanis from our territory by force. However, given the greater scale of this problem and the presence of a geopolitical component in it, we need to calculate and take into account all the possible consequences of such a step, "he stressed. Taking into account the current army reforms, the leadership of Armenia, in the opinion of the parliamentarian, first of all needs to act towards resolving this situation created by Baku exclusively through diplomatic and political channels. In this light, Hovhannisyan highlighted the use by Yerevan of the capabilities of the CSTO and the mechanisms of the union agreement between Armenia and Russia in order to solve the problem within this framework. Which, according to him, has already brought certain results and is expected to put a final point on it.
At the same time, the parliamentarian by no means excludes the continuation of Azerbaijani provocations even in the event that the crisis at Sev Lich has been resolved. He considers the sharply increased appetites of the Aliyev-Erdogan alliance after last year's war as evidence of such a forecast, which allows the Azerbaijani president to constantly present new, aggressive, territorial claims to Armenia. "Such a tandem policy pursues the goal of exerting as much pressure on Armenia as possible. However, here I would like to highlight the clear, targeted response of the international community in response to the obvious aggression of Azerbaijan against Armenia. Today it is obvious to everyone that the Azerbaijani military is not on the disputed territory, but on the sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia. And this is proved by all the geographical maps in circulation, "the parliamentarian concluded.