TO CEDE TERRITORY MEANS TO BETRAY
Support A1+!Today “Defense of liberated territories” public initiative spread a statement regarding Armenian Defense Minister’s interview with Yerkir Online.
“Recent interview given by Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan was resembled a speech of the person who is going to assume the power in the country. However it lacked demonstrative self-confidence and contained anxiety and cautiousness. Probably it was caused by the outside pressure directed first of all to the liberated territories of Karabakh.
The Defense Minister reiterates that these lands appear as a security zone and will be returned sooner or later and does not demand either “a wider corridor” or “common border” as additional concessions. Besides, he plans to guard the “vulnerable” borders with the help of peacekeepers, thus confirming his readiness for concessions.
“Defense of liberated territories” public initiative considers the statements on possible territorial concessions as betrayal, especially if they are made by the Defense Minister. The involvement of foreign armed forces in the Armenian-Azeri relations and dislocation of bases jeopardizing security of the neighbor states at the bank of River Araks are also inadmissible.
''We reiterate that in the minds of the Armenian people the Karabakh problem cannot receive international solution while only the power enjoying the nation's support can resist anti-Armenian proposals on the conflict settlement", the statement says.
