Azerbaijani forces remain deployed within four Armenian provinces despite ongoing peace negotiations between the two countries, lawyer and opposition parliamentary candidate Gohar Meloyan said on Monday, warning that unresolved territorial disputes continue to pose a serious threat to national security.
Meloyan, a member of the Strong Armenia party running for parliament, said the Armenian authorities had increasingly centered public discourse on peace and the prospect of a formal agreement with Azerbaijan, even as concerns over Armenia’s territorial integrity remained unresolved.
“Armenia today faces a major national security challenge,” Meloyan said.
She argued that agreements and diplomatic commitments aimed at safeguarding Armenia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity had failed to end the continued presence of Azerbaijani troops on sovereign Armenian territory.
“Azerbaijani forces remain stationed in four provinces of Armenia,” she said. “Despite signed agreements intended to guarantee Armenia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity – principles that exclude the military presence of another state on Armenian soil – Azerbaijani forces have neither withdrawn, nor has the issue of the enclaves been resolved.”
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