Armenia will not arm the population of the border areas

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan opposed arming  the residents of the settlement bordering  Azerbaijan. According to the  site of the press service of the President of Armenia, he stated this at a meeting with members of the Public Council on July 24.

"Public Chamber has made a number of proposals on security and the strengthening of border lines. There was also active discussion around the idea of ​​arming residents of border villages, which ws opposed by the president,  were presented in detail all currently existing opportunities created in the sun for border residents, capable to bear arms," reads  the  statement.

The fact that the military leadership discusses Karabakh arming residents  of Kelbajar region this week, reported the Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan. He said that many residents of the area are already contract servicemen, and the question of arms can be solved by allowing them to take weapons home.

At a government meeting  the military minister said that the Command  of the  Karabakh, is working on mining of the border areas, in order to prevent  in the future  the penetration of Azerbaijani subversive groups.

* To the  latter in Armenia and Karabakh refer  the citizens of Azerbaijan arrested early last week, Shahbaz Guliyev,  and Dilgam Asgarov, arrested early last week,  and killed Hasan Hasanov,

The Armenian side refused to provide detainees  the POW status, the website epress.am.-02D-