“It is not yet true that Azerbaijan wants to return Artsvashen, to take Kyarki. Even so, I want us not to overestimate the value of this issue because there is no such enclave that will create such a road problem for us that is intractable, there is no such issue. If that road cannot pass like this, it can pass like that. In reality, we have developed our road network so much that there is no such problem,” RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during a meeting with the Armenian community of Moldova on June 1.
ARF member, historian, and military analyst Artur Yeghiazaryan, guest of the “Aravot” “Areresum” (“Confrontation”) program, said in this regard: “A problem cannot but arise. After the war of 2020 (not only as a result of the war but also after it), as a result of military operations by Azerbaijan, it can be said that we no longer have any favorable position along the entire eastern border of Armenia.
In the future, it is a matter of solving tactical problems and controlling our water resources and roads. Ishkhanasar is a bit behind the road, but its position rules our gates from Syunik to Goris. There, they don’t need improvement anymore because what they need, they have solved that problem, and the same is in the Sotk area.
The following similar attempts will be made in the direction of the Nakhichevan border, and thus Armenia will no longer have any strategic road that the enemy will not control. This is already a severe problem of political, economic, and other aspects.”
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During the same meeting, Nikol Pashinyan repeated what was said earlier.
“As the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, I want to achieve a result to leave to our future generations a completed and complete certificate of the cadastre of the Republic of Armenia.” Let’s remind that earlier, he said in the National Assembly. “We have been living in a place for 30 years in our beloved homeland for which we do not have a cadastre certificate. Armenia as a state has never had a cadastre certificate during its many thousand years of existence.”
The other guest of the program, YSU Associate Professor Menua Soghomonyan, a member of the board of the “Unification” movement, specifically said in this regard: “He wants to convince the people by presenting the nonsense he says as serious.
If the people say, yes, each of us knows the dimensions of our house, that’s what the cadastre certificate is for, so what’s wrong with having recorded measurements for the country as well? But let’s understand that in diplomatic exchanges, one state never recognizes another state with borders of so many thousand square kilometers in international relations.
For example, does Russia have a cadastre certificate? Are the Kuril Islands in the Russian cadastre certificate or not, or are they in the Japanese cadastre certificate? Or the state of Cyprus. According to the cadastre certificate, the northern part of Cyprus is also in Cyprus, but Turkey has occupied it for 50 years.
Anna ISRAYELYAN
