Armenia`s authorities must report area of territories transferred to  Azerbaijan - opposition MP

ArmInfo.The current government of Armenia keeps secret from its own people how many square kilometers 

of territory have been transferred to Azerbaijan. This was stated by deputy of the Hayastan faction Artur Khachatryan on July 12 in the National Assembly.

The day before, at an extraordinary meeting of parliament, addressing 

the head of the Cadastre Committee Suren Tovmasyan, the deputy asked 

how many kilometers of territory were transferred to Azerbaijan in 

Tavush and after the withdrawal of troops from the village of 

Shurnukh in Syunik <due to a cadastral error>. The head of the 

Cadastre retorted, pointing out that "the territories were not 

surrendered to the Turks." <When strengthening the state border, it 

became known that state registration of rights (to property) was 

carried out on the basis of incomplete legal documents - these are 

decisions of the head of the community and cadastral maps. The 

decisions of the head of the community will be assessed by law 

enforcement," he concluded.

NA Speaker Alen Simonyan hastily answered for Tovlasyan, pointing out 

that "for the thousandth time I am forced to repeat: Not a centimeter 

of the ancestral territory of Armenia was surrendered to anyone." "As 

for the territories mentioned by Khachatryan, a house, a kiosk, a 

small barn, and perhaps one more unfinished building were transferred 

there (to Azerbaijan)," Simonyan assured. The main thing, the NA 

speaker emphasized, is that there is hope for establishing peace with 

Azerbaijan.

"If it weren't a secret (the area of the territories), then today 

they (the authorities) would stand up and say how much was handed 

over," Arthur Khachatryan decisively stated today.

The opposition and, in particular, the Tavush for the Motherland 

movement accuse the RA authorities of unilateral concessions and the 

surrender of strategically important territories of the country. 

Thus, according to the protocol-description of the commission on 

delimitation and demarcation of borders, in the area of the village 

of Kirants, Tavush region of the Republic of Armenia, two houses, a 

bridge, a section of the interstate road to Georgia and about 50 land 

plots go to Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, as legal scholars stated, the 

villagers have cadastral certificates, which means that these 

territories belong to the Republic of Armenia.

On May 20, the RA Ministry of Justice stated that cadastral 

certificates for real estate were issued to residents of the Tavush 

village of Kirants in the past by mistake.