What Pashinyan Said at the Security Council Meeting About Tavush Land

The newspaper 'Hraparak' reports: 'Despite Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan insisting for several hours on his position regarding the handover of four Tavush settlements to Azerbaijan in parliament yesterday, he essentially took on the role of an agent for Azerbaijan's cadastre, waving the well-known map of Armenia repeatedly, trying to present these areas as Azerbaijani territories due to their Azerbaijani names. However, his 'arguments' were not convincing even to members of the ruling party.

Officials from the ruling party are awaiting a closed meeting with Pashinyan, which will likely take place in the coming days. Meanwhile, they have expressed their disagreement in private conversations regarding one-sided concessions and aim to clarify with Pashinyan during the closed meeting what they will receive in exchange for the four settlements.

For instance, will several hundred hectares of Armenian land in Berkaber, which have been under Azerbaijani control since the 1990s, be returned to Armenia in a tit-for-tat principle, or the occupied territories of Jermuk and Vardenis? Within the ruling team, there are doubts that if they handed over Artsakh and managed to digest that, it will be much harder in the case of Armenia.

Incidentally, at the last Security Council meeting, Nikol Pashinyan mentioned that we must hand over the Tavush lands, but in return, Azerbaijan will return several hundred hectares to us in Tavush. Apparently, something has changed even in the last month, and Azerbaijan has refused its obligations.'

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