Ongoing process anything but not border delimitation - opposition MP 

ArmInfo. Everything that is happening today on the borders of Armenia can be called anything, but  not delimitation and demarcation of borders with Azerbaijan., opposition Armenia MP Artur Khachatryan stated in Parliament on May 21. 

According to him, the country's authorities characterize this process  with various formulations, such as "pilot demarcation", "historical  demarcation", etc. But what happened yesterday in the village of  Kirants, Tavush region of the country, the parliamentarian continued,  is no longer delimitation, but petty fraud and petty theft that has  come down from Soviet times. "It turns out that the cadastre, which  in Soviet times issued certificates for housing to local residents,  was mistaken, and, as always under the current authorities, it was  mistaken to the detriment of our compatriots," said the  oppositionist, adding that in stores there is a similar situation  when returned Change in the form of small change is usually given to  the detriment of the buyer.

"Now the current authorities are saying that it turns out that the  cadastre was "wrong" when it issued certificates of title to real  estate. But okay, they were mistaken, then why didn't they take 100  meters of land from Azerbaijan? Or maybe you're afraid? Then they  should have started the process with the city Jermuk: Then say  directly that we are talking about fear, and not about an error in  the cadastre. Or accept the fact that they carried out a small theft.  Before that, they said that the delimitation of borders was carried  out on the basis of the maps of the General Staff of the former USSR  from 1974 to 1999. , and the day before it became known that no,  based on the maps of 1969 in accordance with the decision of the  Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Armenian SSR. Why not based  on the protocol of 1988? Yes, because the decision of 1988 was in  line with the interests of Armenia, but you are afraid of this.  admit," said Artur Khachatryan, adding that the authorities are  already afraid not only of Azerbaijan, but also of their own people.

The day before the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia  issued a statement that cadastral certificates for real estate to  residents of the Tavush village of Kirants on the border with  Azerbaijan were previously issued by mistake, and therefore cannot  serve as a legal basis for the statement that these territories are  considered part of the sovereign territory of the Republic of  Armenia. This is how the department responded to a recent interview  with constitutional law expert Vardan Poghosyan. In it, the expert  noted that the Cadastre Committee provided residents of the village  of Kirants with certificates of registration of property rights,  therefore, these territories are the territory of the Republic of  Armenia.

According to the protocol-description of the commission on  delimitation and demarcation of borders, in the area of the village  of Kirants, Tavush region of the Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan will  have to receive two houses, a bridge, a section of the interstate  road to Georgia and about 50 land plots. This decision of the  commissions caused a sharply negative reaction from local residents.  The previous morning, the National Security Service of the Republic  of Armenia announced that citizens' access to the village of Kirants  would be temporarily limited due to the fact that the border troops  of the republic were preparing for their transfer to guard the state  border of the republic with Azerbaijan. After this, the police, in  addition to media representatives and deputies, did not allow the  head of the Tavush diocese of the AAC, the leader of the Tavush for  the Motherland movement, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, into the  village of Kirants.