RA Investigative Committee raiding Artsakh representative office in  Yerevan

ArmInfo.  A day after parliamentary hearings on the safe return of Artsakh residents to  their homeland, the Investigative Committee of Armenia is conducting  searches at the Artsakh representative office in Yerevan. This was  announced on his Facebook page by Tigran Abrahamyan, a member of the  National Assembly of Armenia from the opposition "I Have the Honor"  faction.

"While Azerbaijan is pressuring the Armenian authorities and  promoting the so-called 'Western Azerbaijan' program, the Armenian  leadership is taking another step in favor of the Azerbaijani side,"  the MP noted.  Lawyer Roman Yeritsyan also reported on his Facebook  page that searches were being conducted at the Artsakh representative  office in Armenia.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, at a meeting with Armenian  journalists in Hamburg last night, responded to Azerbaijan's  accusations regarding parts of the Armenia-EU strategic cooperation  agenda document, which also mentions refugees from Artsakh. He stated  that, given the sensitive nature of the issue for Azerbaijan, he had  a proposal: to simultaneously address the issue of so-called "Western  Azerbaijan" and the return of Artsakh residents to their homeland. In  this regard, Pashinyan even recalled that he had already stated "the  impossibility of returning Nagorno-Karabakh to the people of  Artsakh."

As a reminder, on December 10, the day of the referendum on the  independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and the Constitution,  parliamentary hearings were held at the Artsakh representative  office. The hearings discussed the right of the people of Artsakh to  return to their homeland and the determination of the Republic's  political status based on the principle of self-determination.