ArmInfo. "Some clergymen remembered that there is a church there, they hold a 'show' service there, how many times did they remember this church and how many times did they hold services there? "I don't understand, is this a stand-up?" Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in parliament on April 11.
Earlier, the head of the Tavush diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, speaking about the mood of the local residents, said that they were ready to give in and surrender. "They tell me that they are waiting for me in Tavush. Sorry, I have been to Voskepar, Kirants several times since I became Prime Minister, both officially and unofficially.
Now the <Armenia> faction says that delimitation should be carried out according to Soviet maps, then it accuses me of calling some territories Azerbaijani. I say that as part of the Armenian SSR, that is, on the maps on which, as you say, demarcation should be carried out, there have never been villages whose names are voiced by Azerbaijan," he said, once again emphasizing the names of these villages - Baghanis Ayrum, Ashagy Eskipara Kheyrimli and Gyzylgadzhili.
"I agree that It's not a question of 4 villages, it's not a question of Armenia. You hit the spot! We are solving the issue of the Republic of Armenia and the essence of this issue is as follows: we say that we want to have a border there. If you ask what Armenia will receive, Armenia will receive a border: the Republic of Armenia was established on the territory of the Armenian SSR, and no one can challenge this territory. But we must also understand that this is a process that cannot be accomplished in one action. Of course, there may be risks in this process, but they need to be managed," Nikol Pashinyan emphasized.
Earlier, Baku demanded the immediate "return" of 4 villages located on the border of Armenia's Tavush region and Azerbaijan's Kazakh region. The statement followed a meeting of the border delimitation commissions, headed by the deputy prime ministers of the two countries, Mher Grigoryan and Shahin Mustafayev. "As for the four non-exclave Azerbaijani villages (Baganis Ayrim, Ashagi Eskipara, Kheyrimli and Gyzylgajili) occupied by Armenia, their belonging to Azerbaijan is indisputable, and they are subject to immediate release," the statement said. Baku is also confident that within the framework of the delimitation process "the issue of liberation of four exclave villages (Yukhary Askipara, Sofulu, Barkhudarlu in the Armenian Tavush, as well as Kyarki (Armenian- Tigranashen) in the Ararat region, on the border with Nakhichevan will be resolved. At the same time, Baku denied the statements of the Armenian authorities that Azerbaijan occupied the territory of 31 Armenian settlements in five regions with a total area of about 200 square kilometers, considering it "an unfounded statement." Some of them came under the control of Azerbaijan back in the 1990s during the first Karabakh war, the others as a result of Azerbaijani aggression in 2021-2022.