Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration Listed in Government's Blacklist Due to Unacceptable Honesty

Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration Vahe Terteryan has been placed on the government’s blacklist since yesterday due to his unacceptable honesty in the National Assembly. It is possible that he may resign from his position.

The matter arose when Artsvik Minasyan asked Terteryan, as a reporting official, whether he had heard the accusations that "the state borders of the Republic of Armenia, including with Azerbaijan, were defined by the law on Territorial Division." Terteryan responded by stating that he has been in this field since 1996, having worked not only in the governments that discussed territorial changes but also during the territorial division itself.

"I have not heard any justification that states the borders are determined by the law on Territorial Division. No one has said such a thing. At least in my memory, there is no such statement in either the old or the new periods," he noted.

Moreover, after the war, the authorities treated this law lightly, suggesting that in 2010, the previous government decided that Azerbaijan starts after Shurnukh. "During the USSR, that area had the administrative borders of Soviet Armenia and Soviet Azerbaijan, which later became state borders, and this reality has been accepted as the basis," Prime Minister Pashinyan said.

The full article is available in today’s issue of the newspaper.