June: 28, 2026
During the pre-election campaign, at the beginning of June, Nikol Pashinyan, speaking about Artsvashen, said that one of the options to solve the issue of Artsvashen is exchange. Nikol Pashinyan did not elaborate on what the exchange was with.
“One of the options to solve the problem of silver can be the exchange.
For the Armenian side, this topic is no longer a matter of tension. The principle is as follows. Do Armenia and Azerbaijan want to hurt each other with the border delimitation process, or do they want to solve the issues so that our children and their children no longer have these topics?” had said Nikol Pashinyan.
Chairman of the Democratic Party of Armenia Aram Sargsyan in other words, if Nikol Pashinyan’s goal is to exchange Artsvashen with Tigranashen, then he should understand that these two are not equal territories.
“Artsvashen is an Armenian territory and we have tens-hundreds of such territories in Azerbaijan, because Armenians lived in the territory of Azerbaijan when the Azerbaijan state did not exist, and our right to live in those territories was undeniable from a historical and legal point of view.
We have constantly reminded about Tigranashen after 2020, I don’t know who thought of naming it Kyarki. I want to remind you that this last name does not exist in any official map or document.” 168.amAram Sargsyan said in a conversation with
According to him, during the Soviet years, the authorities of Armenia allowed Azerbaijani shepherds to come and practice shepherding in the Tigranashen area. Gradually, the number of Azerbaijani shepherds increased, they brought their families and multiplied.
Our interlocutor is sure that the Azerbaijanis took this step consciously, under the supervision of the authorities of Azerbaijan and Turkey. This was part of the big plan of those two countries.
“They deliberately did it in order to choose an opportune moment and block the Armenians’ road to Syunik and use that road as a “corridor” to unite the Turkish-speaking states. For some reason, today it seems to some people that this is from the genre of fantasy, but I am saying what the Turks do not hide, and Bakhcheli’s latest statement that the “Zangezur Corridor” will finally give them the opportunity to implement the idea of ”Turan” once again confirms the goals of the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem.
We clearly see how Nakhichevan is turning into a military training ground day by day. Therefore, Nikol Pashinyan will commit the greatest crime if he suddenly agrees to exchange Tigranashen,” added Aram Sargsyan.
Continuing, he emphasized that it should be fixed once and for all that Tigranashen is the legal territory of Armenia, which, it is no secret, has strategic importance for Armenia, and if it is handed over to Azerbaijani control, it will be isolation of Syunik and state treason.
“For the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem, Tigranshen is the blessed way to unite Turkish-speaking countries.
This issue should become one of the main issues for our society today and take a step, defend our territories, so that no such action is taken by the government,” Aram Sargsyan emphasized.
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