Baku/09.08.22/Turan: The Armenian edition of “Radio Liberty” prepared a report from the village of Zabukh, which is planned to be evacuated. It is reported that the Armenians began to leave Lachin, as well as settlements located along the Lachin corridor. In an interview, Armenians express their dissatisfaction with the so-called regime in Karabakh and its leader Arayik Harutyunyan. They want an answer about how their fate will turn out.
Azerbaijan has completed the construction of its part of the alternative new road of the Lachin corridor, as required by paragraph 6 of the November 10 statement. Armenia tried to drag out time. Official Baku gave Yerevan a deadline for the release of the Lachin corridor (the city of Lachin, the villages of Zabukh and Sus) until August 25.
On August 5, the separatist regime's so-called "Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure" Hayk Khanumyan met with local residents and promised that if they did not burn down their houses and damage their property by leaving the village, they would be issued certificates to buy apartments.
What provocations on the eve of the exodus can occur in Lachin and in Karabakh?
Elkhan Shahinoglu, a political observer, talks about this, as well as about the processes taking place in Karabakh, in the “Difficult Question” program.
Shahinoglu noted that the paragraph 6 of the Tripartite Agreement of the President of Azerbaijan, the Prime Minister of Armenia and the President of Russia dated 9 states that “in the next three years, a plan for the construction of a new traffic route along the Lachin corridor will be determined, providing a connection between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, with the subsequent redeployment of the Russian peacekeeping contingent to guard this route.
“However, the Azerbaijani side managed to build a new road in 1 year and 8 months, and thus, by the end of August, the transition to an alternative road should take place. Armenia has already come to terms with this. They tried to resist, but the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan himself confirmed last month in one of his speeches in parliament that the Armenians illegally residing in the villages of Zabukh and Sus of the Lachin region, as well as in Lachin itself, after the completion of the construction of an alternative road to Lachin corridor will be relocated,” the expert said.
Shahinoglu stressed that the commissioning of the alternative road in Lachin by Azerbaijan does not mean that it is presented as a gift to Armenians or Russian peacekeepers.
"Not at all. I think that at the entrance to the territory of Azerbaijan, posts of the State Border Service of Azerbaijan and the State Customs Committee should be established on this road. Since the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated that the formulations on the extraterritorial Zangezur corridor are unacceptable for Armenia. And if so, then the Lachin road should have a similar status,” the political scientist noted.
He also warned that leaving Lachin and the villages of Zabukh and Sus, the Armenians could mine the roads in the vicinity of these settlements. They can also burn down houses and buildings, as in Kalbajar.
"Therefore, we must strengthen contacts with Russian peacekeepers," Shahinoglu concluded.
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