In Gyumri, the journalists asked former RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian to estimate Serzh Sargsyan’s statement about the loss of 800 hectares of land, which according to the supreme general commander “has no strategic or tactical significance.” Vartan Oskanian said, “I would have never made such a statement in this situation, this statement perhaps should be evaluated by the society. As a diplomat, I would not have made such a statement because naturally, it weakens your position in terms of both military and negotiations.
But whether these territories actually have strategic importance or not, at least people being aware of the location, who have been there and seen it: Manvel Yeghiazaryan who is a member of our board and the head of “Arabo” squad was also there during the four-day war, and he knows the location very well, in his assessment, the location is a height of strategic importance, and what we have lost is of a double strategic significance for on the one hand, it was controlling the Armenian village, on the other hand, you could see a whole Azerbaijani region from there. Now, by losing it, our roles are changed, Azerbaijanis are already seeing our villages, while we do not see the Azerbaijani villages at all, and therefore, it is a loss of strategic positions.”
Nune AREVSHATYAN
