ArmInfo. The main threat to the security of Armenia is the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, opposition Armenian MP Gegham Manukyan told reporters on March 20.
According to him, expressing fear of popular indignation, the Armenian authorities are step by step trying to implement all the points of the draft so-called peace treaty that are being negotiated between Yerevan and Baku. "Pashinyan and his team made attempts to clear all controversial issues under the false so-called peace treaty, so that in the end there would be no omissions and the document would be signed," the oppositionist said, adding that all the statements of the RA Prime Minister made by him in Tavush region, which relate to the need to transfer control over four villages to Baku, are entirely the requirements of Azerbaijan.
Manukyan noted that the head of the Armenian government, blackmailing his own people with an allegedly possible new war between the two states if the villages are not transferred to Azerbaijan, is trying to instill in society an opinion about the importance of this step, but his verbal balancing act has nothing in common with reality. The deputy drew attention to the fact that the country's authorities almost completely ignore international experience in delimiting and demarcating borders.
"This process cannot be carried out on 10 kilometers of territory when Azerbaijan continues to occupy a significant part of the republic's territory on other sections of the border," the oppositionist said. He noted that when solving one problem without solving the other, the parties will find themselves in a deadlock situation, in which, however, Armenia is more likely to find itself today due to the policies implemented by Pashinyan over the past three years. "He has almost legitimized himself as Aliyev's lawyer, another manifestation of which is the behavior of the Armenian prime minister in Tavush, where he carried out propaganda against Armenia with a white flag, thereby giving Azerbaijan a tip to the possibility of a new war," the MP emphasized.
At a meeting with residents of the village of Voskepar in the Tavush region, Pashinyan threatened with a new war with Azerbaijan by the end of the week if Yerevan refuses to discuss the issue of border delimitation with Baku. Answering a question from one of the residents, the prime minister said that he could now stand up and leave the hall and say that there will be no delimitation or demarcation. "But this means that at the end of the week there will be a war. And I know what will happen at the end of this war. Then, when we meet somewhere on Republic Square, you will say: "Okay, we are simple villagers, we had no information, but you knew everything," Pashinyan said.