Armenia’s inter-agency task force dealing with security issues in Syunik Province today held a session attended by regional governor of Syunik Province Melikset Poghosyan, as reported advisor to the regional governor Armine Avagyan.

In an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am, the Public Relations and Information Center of the Office of the Prime Minister reported that head of Gorayk village Ashot Aghajanyan and Deputy Mayor of Kapan Gor Tadevosyan were the only leaders of Syunik Province’s communities attending the session.

Armenian News-NEWS.am tried to find out why other leaders of Syunik Province’s communities didn’t attend the session and only managed to contact Mayor of Meghri Mkhitar Zakaryan, who said he has no serious expectations from the task force, but he will have a different approach, if he sees that the task force is able to do something and if it is worth cooperating with the task force.

Asked about the moods of the people and if there is an atmosphere of fear, the mayor said the following:

“Those who are zombies say everything is great and will be better, but those who are able to analyze the situation adequately, they are afraid. It’s normal for the authorities to talk about unblocking of transport links, but if cargo is going to be transported through Armenia’s sovereign territory and Armenia isn’t going to be aware, this will be the beginning of the end of Armenia’s sovereignty,” he added.

On January 15, an inter-agency task force was set up by the Prime Minister’s decision to coordinate the activities for identifying and giving prompt responses to the current and possible issues in Syunik Province.