During the sitting of the NA Committee on State and Legal Affairs, the bill “On Making an Addendum to the Criminal Code” authored by the deputies of the Armenia faction was discussed, by which the deputies proposed to fix that questioning Armenian territory or whether part of it should belong to Armenia should have consequences. Suspicion or denial of it, as well as public justification or propaganda of the mentioned crime is punished with a fine of 1-2 million AMD, or imprisonment for 2-4 years.
The Civil Contract members were against it. During the discussion, the CC deputies reminded the opposition what the second president Robert Kocharyan was negotiating with Key West. Vahagn Hovakimyan did not see the need for the project at all. Armenia faction MP Agnesa Khamoyan responded, “I do not understand, Mr. Hovakimyan, your advocacy for Aliyev. I can not understand what this problem can cause. It is aimed at external forces. The deputy recalled Key West. Dear deputy, through Key West, Artsakh became part of Armenia, including Shushi and Hadrut.
We did not have thousands of casualties and wounded, and the territories of Armenia would not be occupied. Well, is it possible to be so frivolous, to make the discussions so frivolous? You regularly talk about “administrative division,” Azerbaijan has submitted proposals, we know the content of those 5 points from Azerbaijan and the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms, says yes, we have received those proposals, they correspond to reality. You were saying that in 1992 we recognized the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, but if we recognized it, how is one of the points now to recognize the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, why do they request it now? Please explain to the average Armenian why you are against this project.”
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