Author: Parkev Tvankchian

ArmInfo.Those claiming that the surrender of the Armenian settlements of Berdzor, Aghavno and Sus is stipulated by the trilateral agreement of November 9, 2020, must show the relevant points, Tigran Abrahamyan, a member of the opposition  parliamentary faction With Honor. 

According to him, a number of provisions in the November 9, 2020,  statement allow the Armenian side to defend at least some of its  interests. 

In this context, Mr Abrahamyan recalled the statement on the  alternative highway. 

“During the next three years the sides shall agree on a construction  plan for a route along the Lachin corridor that would connect  Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia, with further redeployment of the  Russian peacekeeping contingent to protect the route,” he said. 

“Those claiming that the exodus of the Armenian population from the  Armenian settlements of Berdzor, Aghavno and Sus and their surrender  is stipulated by the trilateral agreement of November 9, 2020, must  show the relevant points,” he said. 

Following this logic, the sides could have approved a project under  which the three Armenian settlements would be within the boundaries  of the Lachin corridor instead of being surrendered to Azerbaijan, Mr  Abrahamyan. 

Mr Abrahamyan believes that after the 44-day war the provision is  being implemented in line with Azerbaijan’s ambitions. 

“This is a rather complicated situation without simple or standard  solutions. Any settlement must be thoroughly thought out. Otherwise,  new losses are inevitable. Negotiations over various issues with  Azerbaijan are a complicated process which does not allow us to find  a solutions in our favor as long as thee incumbent authorities are in  power in Armenia,” the MP said. 

At a recent online conference, Armenia’s Premier Nikol Pashinyan  stated that new road that would be an alternative to the Lachin  corridor is under construction. Under the trilateral agreement of  November 9, 2020, during three years, with the parties consent, the  corridor  route is to be changed. As a result, the territories beyond  the boundaries of the former Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region will  become part of Azerbaijan. The route will be changed to ensure more  reliable highway service between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. 

“We are solving the Berdzor residents’ problems by means of  government decisions. Of course, the population must be provided with  housing. As regards Ahavno, the Artsakh government can resolve the  villagers’ problems,” the premier said. The route will be changed  after Russian troops establish control over the new route. The  corridor must be under Russian peacekeepers’ full control, Mr   Pashinyan said.   

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A trilateral meeting took place in Minsk between the Prosecutor General of Armenia Artur Davtyan, the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov and the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Kamran Aliyev.

They discussed the possibility of finding new opportunities for resolving the existing humanitarian and legal issues arising as a result of the war unleashed against Artsakh within the competence of the prosecutor’s offices of the three countries. Issues related to the implementation of the agreements reached during the previous two meetings were discussed.

The parties stressed the need to maintain the tripartite format of the meetings of the Prosecutors General as an effective platform for continuing legal contacts to ensure stability, legitimacy, de-escalation, basic human rights and security in the region.

Armenian Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan noted that despite the agreement reached during the previous trilateral meetings on the incidents on the contact line of the Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces and on the mediated exchange of operative information on the ongoing investigations, the criminal ceasefire violations continue, resulting in human losses, new threats to the realization of vital rights and security of the civilian population.

As a vivid example, the Armenian Prosecutor General referred to the actions carried out by the Azerbaijani armed forces in the direction of Parukh settlement, which left 16 servicemen killed and 16 wounded. Artur Davtyan stressed the need to properly investigate these actions in the village of Parukh, as well as other cases of gross ceasefire violations.

These realities also prove the urgent need to increase the efficiency of the operative exchange of information by using the resources of the representatives of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office located in Artsakh.

Artur Davtyan raised the circumstance that the 8th point of the trilateral statement on the November 10, 2020 ceasefire was especially imperfect. He noted that the speedy return of 38 Armenians held in Azerbaijani is crucial to restoring trust between the parties, establishing peace in the region and extending security guarantees, with particular emphasis on the full implementation of the humanitarian requirements of the trilateral statement by Armenia.

As a result of the meeting, an agreement was reached with the mediation of the Russian side to continue the talks in order to fully resolve the humanitarian issues in a short time.

ArmInfo. It is pointless to talk about what happened in the past, simply because it no longer plays a real role in today’s realities. A similar opinion was expressed to  ArmInfo by Artsakh social and political figure, publicist Vahram  Atanesyan.

“The fact, that  in 1997-98 Armenia actually failed the  stage-by-stage option for resolving the Artsakh conflict, thereby  missing the opportunity to establish peace of course, should  certainly be recorded. This is the essence of the problem, and the  rest, including Pashinyan’s statements in 2018, have absolutely no  meaning. Today we are faced with a very unfavorable geopolitical  situation, while any path towards the formation of a different  situation requires the regulation of relations with neighboring  countries,” he said.

Describing the current geopolitical situation in which Armenia and  Artsakh are today as extremely complex and full of challenges and  threats, Atanesyan noted that in such chaos, a time may well come  when no one will be worried about the fate of the Artsakh Armenians  at all. Just like today, by and large, no one cares about the fate of  the Syrians or Ukrainians. In his opinion, in such a situation,  making thunderous statements excluding this or that scenario around  Artsakh, has nothing to do with Realpolitik (from German real  ‘realistic, practical, actual’, and Politik ‘politics’, ed. note).

In this light, purely humanly, as a resident of Artsakh, not  welcoming Prime Minister Pashinyan’s latest statement, according to  which any status of Artsakh that ensures the security, freedoms and  rights of Artsakh Armenians can be considered a solution to the  conflict, Atanesyan believes that there is simply no alternative in  the current conditions.

“These conditions are the balance of power following the results of  the 44-day war, the international political situation, the inability  of the Armenian side, which won in 1994, to achieve recognition of  the independence of the second Armenian state from Baku within 26  years. Under such conditions, even ensuring the rights of Artsakh  Armenians is a prospect that still needs to be achieved, especially  against the backdrop of Azerbaijani post-war appetites,” Atanesyan  summed up.