The agreement of the Armenian authorities of part of the territories in the Tavush region, including settlements, to Azerbaijan, caused protests and roadblocks in different parts of the country. The Armenian leadership shows a strong determination to finish what it started and hopes to achieve lasting peace with Baku. But not everyone in Yerevan shares this view, saying “Kommersant».
The highway that goes from Armenia to Georgia has been closed for almost a week at the exit from the small town of Kirants. Online maps show how close this town in the north-east of the republic is to Azerbaijan.
The way in and out of Kirants is blocked by a dark cherry Lada model seven and a green Mitsubishi jeep. An awning is attached to the jeep. People of different ages and occupations stand and sit in the shade. Pensioners, strong men in civilian clothes and khaki, teenagers, priests in black robes, old women and young women. Several policemen are smoking nearby.
“The people themselves came out to protest because they were told that the border would be drawn through their houses and gardens. I came because this is my flock and I should be here.” – says the father Simeon.
He serves in Ijevan (this is also the area of Tavush) in the Church of Saint Nerses Shnorali.
“People want to stop this process so that we are not in a vulnerable position. We are already in a vulnerable position,” – explains the priest.
Father Simeon says that the completion of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is a process. Yerevan and Baku announced the agreement to start on April 19. It was decided to start from Tavush area. It soon became clear that the border line would have to pass through, among other things, Armenian towns. Kirants is one of them.
As soon as reports appeared about the Armenian-Azerbaijani agreement about the beginning of the delimitation, protests began.
In some places, such as on one part of the M-6 highway near the Georgian border, there were scuffles with the police and they were arrested. There, among the protesters were many people in military uniform, calling themselves fidayeen (as it was like the participants in the armed struggle of the Armenian people against the Turks at the end of the 19 – early 20th century). They tried to block the highway, but the police solved the problem very successfully, and soon the traffic was restored.
Rafael Kocharyanwho is called the leader of the army, saying also to everyone else:
“We are against giving our land to the Azerbaijanis. We didn’t fight for this, until our land was given up.”
MP against Garnik Danielyan from the Dashnaktsutyun party – one of the most prominent participants in these protests. He is in Tavush day and night:
“If Azerbaijanis are here, it will be impossible to live here. These are unilateral concessions under pressure from Azerbaijan. And most importantly, there is no end to their requests. This is not an exchange of lands. Azerbaijan wants, the Armenian side gives. “
While protests are going on in the Tavush region and in some other areas of the country, including Yerevan (it should be noted that they cannot be called massive and on a large scale) , the website of the Armenian government publishes news about the installation of borders. columns. On April 23rd the first one appeared, on the 25th there were already 20, and on the 26th there were 28.
All official reports about borders and border separation have one thing in common: they lack details. As a result, no one can understand or really explain exactly what, when and how it will be transferred to the neighboring country.
Papers pass through people’s hands and are shown to the media. If you believe them, the border in Kirantse will cut the village alive – the red line runs through the families. The question is whether these papers can be trusted. There is no response from the official authorities, so publications with assumptions about what and how it will be divided are multiplying.
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan definition of social networks:
“This is obviously a very sad case, and this is clearly not someone else’s, but my home. There is a road problem, a house problem, but I want us to record that we are not solving any house, road or town issue. We are solving the issue of being in Armenia in the coming decades. And we will solve this case, we have no other choice.”
This comment does not make the picture any clearer. There is no more clarity about whether there will be peace with Azerbaijan, when it will happen and whether it will be permanent.
Political scientist, head of the Yerevan Regional Center for Democracy and Security Tigran Grigoran says:
“Azerbaijan wants peace on its own terms – this is a winner’s peace.” They are pushing this strategy.”
According to the expert, Azerbaijan is very successfully using the emerging window of opportunities:
“Armenia is in a weak state, the international situation is favorable. It is clear, in the West, when there are Ukraine, Gaza, elections (in the EU and the US), that no one sits and thinks about what is going on with Armenia. And Azerbaijan is taking advantage of this to achieve its goals.”
If you surrender some borders so that there is no war, these are not borders, but something else, says Grigoryan. In his opinion, the main question is whether Baku is ready for a complete, rather than partial, end of the border.
The expert’s doubts about this are caused by Azerbaijan’s rather difficult line regarding the territories it occupied in 2022 in the southern part of Armenia – around Jermuk.
“In other areas, the Azerbaijanis do not seem to be interested in delimitation because they live in areas in the south,” – Grigoryan emphasizes.
In this regard, the expert recalls an interview in January Ilham Aliyevin which the President of Azerbaijan, referring to the situation around Jermuk, said:
“We must have such height in our hands that we can see with our own eyes what the Armenians intend.”
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Kommersant’s impartial style does not fully reflect the drama of the current situation. People understand very well how Pashinyan’s games with Baku will end and they are trying to stand against the wickedness of the authorities.
In confirmation, information from the newspaper “Voice of Armenia”, where the journalist is Gagik Mkrtchyan writes that “acts of disobedience and blocking roads are a struggle for the Motherland and justice, which can only be restored after the removal of the dangerous regime.
According to the author, Pashinyan and his pack will not come to their senses and stop:
“This government is made up of traitors. Without exception. Without exception. May their names be blotted out from the memory of future generations. And the marks of their deeds are sprinkled with ashes and salt. Big.”
In the meantime, the struggle of the citizens continues, Mkrtchyan emphasizes. Today and every day. In Tavush, Yerevan and throughout the country. What Pashinyan’s power is showing today is just an example of oppression. Frustration is never pretty:
“Believing that all those clouds that are growing on the horizon, threatening the false government, can be dispelled by the baton of Janissaries in the uniform of law enforcement officers means showing bad qualities -fit not only the heart, but also the mind. People are not going to crawl into a cemetery wrapped in a sheet. “
2024-04-27 10:42:00
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