ArmInfo.RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, at a meeting with residents of the village of Voskepar, Tavush region of Armenia, presented details of the negotiation process with Azerbaijan. This was reported by the Prime Minister's spokesperson Nazeli Baghdasaryan. According to her, Pashinyan told local residents about the current situation during the delimitation process and answered questions.
Notably, according to the local media sources, strict security measures were taken before the meeting. As political scientist Suren Petrosyan, who has been living in Voskepar for a month, reported, the meeting with Pashinyan is closed, people are not allowed to film anything.
Let us recall that the head of the Armenian government visited Voskepar on March 18, promising its residents to return in 10 days. But actually he did it a month later. At the first meeting, Pashinyan threatened that a war would break out if the Armenian side refused to transfer 4 villages to Baku
The topic of delimitation of the border with Azerbaijan and territorial concessions became relevant again after, the office of Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev stated on March 9 that as part of the process of delimitation and demarcation of the border with Armenia, "issues of the liberation of 4 exclave villages should be immediately resolved ( Baghanis Ayrim, Ashaghi (Lower) Askipara, Kheyrimli, and Gizilhajili)". Baku is also confident that within the framework of the delimitation process "the issue of liberation of four exclave villages (Yukori Eskipara, Sofulu, Berhudarli in the Armenian Tavush, as well as Kerki (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, calling 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.
In response, Pashinyan stated that villages with such names were not even part of the Armenian SSR. In addition, Yerevan announced its readiness to begin the delimitation process from Tavush.