We should be ready for more extensive operations by Azerbaijan - Zaruhi Postanjyan (video)
We should not pin great hopes on the upcoming meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents, says Heritage party member Zaruhi Postanjyan. “Chiefs of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in Moscow in April. An agreement on ceasefire was reached during the meeting which put an end to the 4-day clashes in Karabakh. But the representatives of the Atsakh Republic did not participate in the meeting,” she said. Zaruhi Postanjyan says we need not expect anything positive from the heads of three authoritarian regimes - Putin, Aliyev and Sargsyan will meet in the near future. “Rather, we should be ready for the next stage of more extensive operations by Azerbaijan.” The lawmaker says the settlement of the Karabakh conflict based on the Madrid Principles within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group format does not stem from the interests of Armenia. “It suggests irreversible losses for us. The so-called Madrid Principles, that include non-use of force, were violated by the April war. Hence, the talks based on these Principles will be used as betrayal. The authorities of Armenia have, in fact, betrayed our nation,” she said. The opposition lawmaker does not agree with the claims that Armenia would suffer more losses if it tried to return the territories lost in the four-day war. “We had some many victims as a result of poor policy and betrayal. Many of our soldiers were killed on the first day of the clashes because they did not receive an order to protect themselves. That led to the consequent loss of territories,” she said.
