Politician: There is no geopolitical context behind Yeraskh

ArmInfo.The statements according to which there is no Armenian army, that its backbone is broken, and we cannot defend our borders on our own, are an absolute lie. Our military is not at all broken by the results of the 44-day war, I was  convinced of that by visiting our positions, including in Yeraskh.  Leader of the party, former Prime Minister of Armenia Aram  Sargsyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.

Since July 14, the Azerbaijani army has been shelling the village of  Yeraskh in the Ararat region of Armenia from the direction of  Nakhichevan with small arms and mortars. An Armenian soldier became  the victim of the shelling, and on July 19 the head of the Yeraskh  community was wounded.

"As for Yeraskh, we are dealing exclusively with another border  incident. And I personally am not inclined to see the geopolitical  context in these skirmishes. And in all this there are no prospects  for escalating into full-scale hostilities. The army is firmly in  position, its spirit is still strong and our number one task is its  technical re-equipment. This is the most important task for our  government, since it is this army and no other that will have to  defend our borders, "he stressed.

The fact that Yeraskh is a means of pressure on Yerevan in the light  of the failure of the Armenian leadership, allegedly reached as a  result of the 44-day war, of the oral agreements and even the signed  agreements, according to Sargsyan, are asserted by the Azerbaijanis.  He also noted that, unfortunately, there are media and political  forces in Armenia that are actively disseminating this disinformation  based on the interests of Baku.

In fact, according to the politician, there is only one document that  put an end to and regulates the consequences of the 44-day treaty war  - the tripartite statement of November 9 with its nine points. Treaty  war, because Armenia and Artsakh had no chance to win the war with  Azerbaijan and Turkey, nor even to stop it where it was stopped - at  the walls of Stepanakert.

"It is clear that the 9th paragraph of this statement" unblocking all  economic and transport links in the region "inspires me with deep  concern. It has nothing to do with the Artsakh problem at all. And  the only way for Armenia to get out of this trap is to postpone all  points mentioned in the statement for consideration by the UN  Security Council. In any case, consideration and settlement of all  these issues in no way should take place in a trilateral format.  This should take place with the participation of all three OSCE Minsk  Group co-chair countries, and not only Russia. And Turkey should have  nothing to do with all this," Sargsyan stressed.  

According to the politician, the demarcation and delimitation of the  border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is an urgent need. Otherwise, skirmishes at the border will continue indefinitely. The whole question  is how this border will be determined and whether the interests of  Armenia will not be infringed upon and, of course, with the condition  that there is no connection with the question of the need to determine the status of Artsakh.