Surrender of Tavush villages to destroy locals` ecosystem - expert 

ArmInfo. There is no panic among the residents of the Tavush region in connection with Armenia's  intentions to transfer a number of villages in the region to Azerbaijan. Security expert, Chair of the Center for Women and Global Security Architecture Armine Margaryan stated, while speaking at the  Armenian Center for National and Strategic Studies, commenting on the results of a visit to the region by a group of Armenian experts.

As Margaryan noted, local residents have very serious concerns about  their future, since if the situation is resolved as RA Prime Minister  Nikol Pashinyan presented it during his visit to the Tavush region,  there will be a risk of disruption to the ecosystem of local  residents. "This means that local residents will either not be able  to live in this area, or they will constantly be under threat to  their lives. Thus, in this case we are dealing with people's safety,"  the expert noted.

The second concern, as Margaryan noted, concerns the threat of war,  which the head of the Armenian government spoke about, which  objectively caused difficult emotions among local residents, who have  a question about who in this case bears the responsibility for  ensuring security.  "That is, we are again dealing with the issue of  people's safety, since the residents of Tavush have the feeling that  they were left alone with their problems," Margaryan emphasized.

She also pointed out that a fairly competent information war is being  waged, primarily on the part of Russia, against the civilian  observation mission of the European Union in Armenia, aimed at  creating antagonistic sentiments among residents of the villages of  the Tavush region towards EU representatives in order to remove them  from the region . Moscow wants to keep its expectations high,  intending to create a situation in which, if these expectations fail,  it can be declared that "here's a Europe that hasn't done anything."  "I myself have heard several formulations that the region is Russia's  area of responsibility, and it is Moscow that must resolve the issue.

The situation, the expert believes, will develop in a negative  direction if the attitude towards the effectiveness of the EU mission  develops in a similar vein. All this is evidence that no work is  being done with local residents at the state level. As they say, a  holy place is never empty, and free information space is quickly  filled with other messages," Margaryan said.

She noted that even if the process of delimitation and demarcation of  borders takes place solely on maps, this will not bring peace to the  region. "Even if we imagine that Azerbaijan will take this step in  the same way, in any case, technically, the ecosystem of local  residents will be disrupted, and their problems will not be resolved.  It is difficult to imagine that Azerbaijan will take such a step and  move away from the position it has already taken. Not We should also  forget that all the nearest roads lead to Georgia," the expert  emphasized.