Armenia MP: No guarantee Azerbaijan will withdraw from Karabakh

PanARMENIAN.Net - Opposition lawmaker from Armenia's "I Have Honor" bloc Tigran Abrahamyan believes that there is no guarantee that the Azerbaijani military will honor its commitment to withdraw from an area in Nagorno-Karabakh that they burst into days earlier.

The Azerbaijani military has violated the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) again, this time near the settlement of Seysulan, the NKR InfoCenter reported earlier․ According to Karabakh authoritie, as a result of the negotiations by the Russian peacekeeping troops in Artsakh, the Azerbaijani troops "have agreed to return to their starting positions".

Abrahamyan said that although official sources claim that there's an agreement to have the Azerbaijanis pull back forces to their original positions, there is no guarantee that they will fulfill the agreement. According to him, the Azeris might even attempt a fresh attack.

"The post-war status has already created a rather difficult situation for Artsakh and Armenia, but Azerbaijan is trying to build on its advantage, obtain complete control over the "veins" of Artsakh's vital support, and to achieve the complete eviction of Armenians from Artsakh," the MP said in a Facebook post.

"The Azerbaijani scenario assumes that the issue of gaining full control of Artsakh will be resolved faster this way. Of course, the main supporter of this process is the Armenian government, which is giving a green light to Azerbaijan."

Azerbaijan has broken into Nagorno-Karabakh, and the incursion has left three Armenian soldiers dead and at least 14 others injured. On March 24, Azerbaijan stormed into the zone of the responsibility of the Russian peacekeepers stationed in the area and is refusing to completely withdraw its forces from strategic heights.