Armenian field commander: "It is time to consider Karabakh as part of Armenia, as one of its regions"

Sefilyan intends to establish the union of political powers and personalities, standing against the territorial concessions in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict.

One of the organizers of the operation on Shusha occupation, Jirair Sefilyan considers that it is time for Armenia to change its attitude towards Nagorno Karabakh "as towards an independent state and consider Karabakh to be one of the regions of Armenia".

"We must turn the page of history, when beginning from 1991 we have been considering Karabakh as an independent state. Whom are we deceiving? The whole world knows that the army of "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" is part of the armed forces of Armenia, that the Nagorno Karabakh budget is financed from the budget of Armenia, political leaders of "NKR" are appointed from Yerevan. It is time to regard Karabakh as part of Armenia, as one of its regions. Karabakh should be treated as a territory of Armenia, which must not make any concessions in the negotiation process", said Jirair Sefilyan.

He also considers that Russia has become a country, which is recently putting the biggest pressure on Armenia in the issue of the territorial concessions to Azerbaijan.

"Russia has recently imposed a strong pressure on Armenia, making its leadership to agree on territorial concessions, which was obvious during Medvedev's recent visit to Armenia and from talks of the Russian President with Serzh Sargsyan. Lavrov's statement can be added here as well.

They offer to replace the Armenian armed forces in the liberated lands with international or Russian. Yet, the Russian military presence in Armenia is one thing and we have nothing against it and their presence in the liberated lands is another. We will not allow the repetition of the case.

Russia must not think that it can do whatever it wants to Armenia under such a weak current leadership of our country. We will soon mobilize all our forces and speak against it", said Sefilyan.

He also considers that there is a variant of the resolution of the Karabakh problem without territorial concessions by Armenia.

"Tomorrow I will declare creation of a new political initiative, to be called "Union". The aim of this initiative is unification of all political powers, personalities, the Armenian people, standing against the territorial concessions in the Karabakh conflict. The idea of this union lies in unification and joint resolution of the Karabakh problem.

The conflict resolution should not be left to the illegitimate powers, which do not enjoy people's support and, therefore, are unable to resist external pressure. We will also provide the political, legal and historical grounds for the coalition", said Sefilyan.

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