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RPA: IF AZERBAIJAN CONTINUES ITS SABOTAGE ATTACKS, ARMENIA MAY CHANGE ITS "BENEVOLENCE" TOWARDS NAKHIJEVAN AND ENSURE DIRECT RAILWAY SERVICE WITH IRAN VIA TERRITORY OF NAKHIJEVAN
by Tatevik Shahunyan
Monday, July 14, 19:33
The permanent sabotage attacks of Azerbaijan demonstrate that the
war in the Karabakh conflict zone is not over, Hovhannes Sahakyan,
member of the Republican Party of Armenia, Head of the Armenian State
Parliamentary Commission for State and Legal Affairs, has told ArmInfo
correspondent.
He thinks that the permanent Azeri sabotage attacks on the Line
of Contact with Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as on the Armenian-Azeri
border can be explained by Baku's diplomatic fiasco at the table of
negotiations on the Karabakh conflict settlement. "The status quo is
maintained in the conflict zone and Nagorno-Karabakh is a de facto
independent state. Therefore, Baku is eager to compensate for its
losses by sabotage attacks", he says.
He also says that despite Armenia's commitment to peace, if Azerbaijan
continues its strategy of sabotage attacks, Armenia may change its
"benevolence" towards Nakhijevan and ensure a direct railway service
with Iran via the territory of Nakhijevan.
Sahakyan thinks that the international community should adequately
assess the actions of Azerbaijan. "I consider that under the current
conditions the statements of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and
the international community should be targeted, clear and harsh and
should be addressed to the party, which is guilty of destabilizing the
situation. In this case, it is Azerbaijan, which has already started
mounting sabotage attacks on Armenia's territory as well", he says.
To note, Azeris made new attempts to mount a sabotage attack on the
Armenian-NKR section of the border (near Karvachar) last week. The
Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Ministry has told ArmInfo that they revealed
and neutralized all members of the Azerbaijani subversive group. Some
members of the group were captured, and others escaped. As reported
earlier, the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army released a photo of
Gyulin Shahbaz Jalaloghlu (born in 1968), the captured member of the
Azerbaijani sabotage and intelligence team. Defense Minister Seyran
Ohanyan informed on Saturday that the Armenian soldiers killed an
Azerbaijani saboteur while neutralizing the subversive group on
Friday. But an Armenian officer, major Sarkis Abrahamyan (born in
1972) was killed and an Armenian woman, Karina Davtyan (born in 1977)
was wounded.
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by Tatevik Shahunyan
Monday, July 14, 19:33
The permanent sabotage attacks of Azerbaijan demonstrate that the
war in the Karabakh conflict zone is not over, Hovhannes Sahakyan,
member of the Republican Party of Armenia, Head of the Armenian State
Parliamentary Commission for State and Legal Affairs, has told ArmInfo
correspondent.
He thinks that the permanent Azeri sabotage attacks on the Line
of Contact with Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as on the Armenian-Azeri
border can be explained by Baku's diplomatic fiasco at the table of
negotiations on the Karabakh conflict settlement. "The status quo is
maintained in the conflict zone and Nagorno-Karabakh is a de facto
independent state. Therefore, Baku is eager to compensate for its
losses by sabotage attacks", he says.
He also says that despite Armenia's commitment to peace, if Azerbaijan
continues its strategy of sabotage attacks, Armenia may change its
"benevolence" towards Nakhijevan and ensure a direct railway service
with Iran via the territory of Nakhijevan.
Sahakyan thinks that the international community should adequately
assess the actions of Azerbaijan. "I consider that under the current
conditions the statements of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and
the international community should be targeted, clear and harsh and
should be addressed to the party, which is guilty of destabilizing the
situation. In this case, it is Azerbaijan, which has already started
mounting sabotage attacks on Armenia's territory as well", he says.
To note, Azeris made new attempts to mount a sabotage attack on the
Armenian-NKR section of the border (near Karvachar) last week. The
Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Ministry has told ArmInfo that they revealed
and neutralized all members of the Azerbaijani subversive group. Some
members of the group were captured, and others escaped. As reported
earlier, the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army released a photo of
Gyulin Shahbaz Jalaloghlu (born in 1968), the captured member of the
Azerbaijani sabotage and intelligence team. Defense Minister Seyran
Ohanyan informed on Saturday that the Armenian soldiers killed an
Azerbaijani saboteur while neutralizing the subversive group on
Friday. But an Armenian officer, major Sarkis Abrahamyan (born in
1972) was killed and an Armenian woman, Karina Davtyan (born in 1977)
was wounded.
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