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    EXCHANGE OF TERRITORIES NOT SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION FOR ARMENIAN REVOLUTIONARY FEDERATION - DASHNAKTSUTYUN

    Aravot
    Nov 15 2008
    Armenia

    Asked by Aravot about Dashnaktsutyun's attitude to the proposal of
    the [opposition] Heritage Party to settle the issue of the liberated
    territories [Armenian-occupied lands outside Nagornyy Karabakh] via an
    exchange, say by exchanging Agdam District for Shahumyan [Goranboy]
    District, the leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation -
    Dashnaktsutyun faction, Vahan Hovhannesyan, said at a briefing in
    parliament on 14 November: "We have not discussed such an issue,
    because I do not believe that the opposite side will consent to
    such a plan. It is an issue for discussion. However, in general,
    our principle is what a representative of the Dashnaktsutyun bureau
    expressed years ago - we do not exchange Armenian territories for
    Armenian territories."

    We asked if, according to this, they consider Agdam to be Armenian
    territory, and Hovhannesyan said: "I know there are officials who do
    not believe that Agdam is Armenian territory. However, I am sure that
    it is historical Armenian territory."

    When Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was defence minister,
    he [Sargsyan] said in May 2001: "One cannot approach the issue
    unilaterally and say at every corner that we have liberated, have
    liberated, have liberated... Agdam is ours, I do not know, Mirbashir
    [Tartar District] is ours... I do not believe this is serious."

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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