In an interview with Tert.am, Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, the primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church’s diocese of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), addressed the Azerbaijani armed forces’ recent infiltration attempt on the frontline, noting that Armenia has now stepped up the monitoring along the Line of Contact to keep the situation under control.
April blitzkrieg marked serious turning point in Karabakh peace process– religious leader
STEPANAKERT, OCTOBER 26, ARTSAKHPRESS: He also commented upon the remark by James Warlick, the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, hailing the Azerbaijani President’s statement on granting autonomy to Nagorno-Karabakh.“What James Warlick means is probably the fact that it is a step forward for [Azerbaijani President] Ilham Aliyev, as he never addressed the topic over the recent years. It cannot have anything to do with the Artsakh people. We have repeatedly stated that we are not going to be part of Azerbaijan. We used to be an autonomous region; so are we now supposed to become an autonomous republic?”
Asked whether the sides have drawn any lessons from the April blitzkrieg, the Archbishop admitted that the deadly fighting has completely changed the general situation in the region. “We have equipped our trenches with monitoring devices. So they aren’t absolutely vulnerable now. Six months ago, we wouldn’t see those devices when passing by the trenches,” he noted.
