The thesis about "4 villages" is another aggression against RA within the framework of the hybrid war. Shahen Shahinyan

Azerbaijan, waging a hybrid war against the Republic of Armenia and Armenians, has once again resorted to manipulation and is trying to extract unilateral concessions from us, which have nothing to do with peace and even more so border delimitation. Shahen Shahinyan, geodesist-cartographer, author of "Elma" electronic map, wrote about this on his Facebook page.

"Speaking about "4 villages", Azerbaijani sources claim that we should return 4 villages to them, but let's understand where those villages were before and what is the current situation there.

*The data was taken from the "Google maps" platform, which is open and available to any user.

1. In the attached picture, the border line between the Soviet republics, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia and the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan is represented by a yellow line on paper according to the years 1970-1985.

2. The locations of the 4 settlements in question are marked with yellow arrows. They were previously called: Kzlhajli, Kheirimli, Nerkin Okepar, Baghanis Ayrum.

3. Armenian military bases are marked in blue.

4. Azerbaijani military bases are marked in red.

If there is a mutual agreement that the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan recognize each other's borders on the basis of the administrative territorial division of the USSR, and the map of the USSR General Staff of 1970-1985 will be accepted as a cartographic basis. topographic maps (about which Azerbaijan has officially stated that it does not agree at all), it will be found that according to them, half of the settlements in the Baghanis-Voskepar-Kirants-Berkaber section of the Tavush region, the settlement of Baghanis Ayr was located in the territory of Soviet Armenia, that is, it is purchase 3.5 about the village.

And when we look at the locations of military bases, we can clearly see that only 1.5 of these 4 settlements (Kheirimli and half of Baghanis Ayrum, see the attached picture) have Armenian military bases, the others (Kzlhajli and Nerkin Voskepar) are located in are in the neutral zone (between the Armenian and Azerbaijani combat positions).

From all this, we conclude that the thesis about "4 villages" is another aggression against RA in the framework of the hybrid war.

There are no "4 villages" occupied by Armenians, and if all this is considered in the framework of the demarcation process, then the legal basis on which these villages should be part of Azerbaijan should be clearly defined, and a deadline should be clearly indicated when they will be released. territories of Armenian settlements," wrote Shahinyan.

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