Azerbaijan secretly attacked our 'sleeping positions' - says lawmaker (video)
Republican lawmaker Arakel Movsisyan returned from Karabakh three days ago. This time he was not on the frontline but he again visited military positions. The MP keeps the 'memories' of the frontline on his table, under glass… During the four-day war in April, Mr Movsisyan was in the military positions in Jabrail and saw Armenian army losing the long-debated 800 hectares of land. “We won this war,” he says. “There is no need to hurry,” says the Republican lawmaker. “Tomorrow we may wake up to find that our boys have returned these 800 hectares. And there will be no more talks about concessions and the return of the five regions for Karabakh’s independence. We can move ahead. Just forget about those lands. Those are our territories. If we capture another five, then we may concede one…” Arakel Movisyan then began enumerating Azeri lands that he would like to come under Armenia’s control. “Mirbashir, Tartar, Navtalan, Nakhichevan, Kirovabad, Getashen … No matter which of them becomes ours. The more we capture, they better for us. Only after that can they [Azeris] come and negotiate with us over the return of lands. This is already planned.” Lawmaker Rustam Gasparyan says there is no need to 'make a tragedy' out of the lost territories. “… because Azerbaijan, as is peculiar to it, secretly attacked our sleeping military positions… And what did they gain? They only captured several heights…” “The tragedy would happen if Azerbaijani troops could penetrate into the country at the depth of 10 kilometers. But they were only able to take some 800 hectares. These 800 hectares is half of a village,” he said. The MP added that Azerbaijan had lost more than 2000 people for those 800 hectares. At the same time, Mr Gasparyan did not exclude that Armenia might take back those lands. The lawmaker does not blame the political leadership of Armenia and Karabakh for the loss of these 800 hectares of lands.
