Friday, April 5 2024 08:29

ArmInfo.Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan assures that there are no  discussions about the surrender of villages in the Tavush region of the Republic of Armenia.

"They go and convince residents of border settlements that someone,  including me, said or is saying that, for example, the village of  Voskepar is not Armenian, or some part of the Tavush region is not  Armenian and should be surrendered (to Azerbaijan). Some journalists  allow themselves to say that a village is being 'rented out' in  Tavush.  There can be no talk about the transfer (to Azerbaijan) of  any territory, settlement, village or meter to the Republic of  Armenia. There is no such discussion!," Simonyan wrote in his  Telegram channel.

As the Speaker of the National Assembly notes, going to border  villages and inciting passions, distorting reality, playing on  people's emotions is clear evidence of the worst qualities.  "Such  things cannot bring political dividends to anyone. The Republic of  Armenia has a clear map. Within the framework of this map, we have  become independent, and this is not subject to discussion," Alen  Simonyan concludes.

Earlier, in a meeting with the residents of Voskepar village in  Tavush, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan threatened war if the  Armenian side refused to hand over 4 villages to Baku. The topic of  delimitation of the border with Azerbaijan and territorial  concessions became relevant again after the office of Deputy Prime  Minister of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev stated on March 9, 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."

On March 27, the speaker of parliament himself, in a conversation  with journalists, questioned the ownership of a number of territories  in the Tavush region of Armenia. "I search and do not find those who  believe and can prove that these villages are the territory of the  Republic of Armenia," Simonyan said. On the question of how the  authorities determine the borders of the country and using what maps,  since there are none yet, Simonyan emphasized that the authorities  know the borders of the Republic of Armenia with millimeter accuracy.