YEREVAN. – Armenian opposition Heritage party made a statement calling Armenian and Karabakh authorities to actively populate liberated territories of Nagorno-Karabagh.

“Ilham Aliyev made another militant statement saying that Azerbaijan will secure its territorial integrity even through army force. Aliyev utters militant statements and in the meantime signs documents on Karabakh conflict resolution mediated by OSCE Minsk group. Those documents secure conflict resolution only through peace negotiations and exclude use or threat of force. Thus, nothing holds Armenian side back from starting the process of populating liberated territories of Karabakh.

Heritage party calls Armenian and Karabakh authorities to start collaboratively the process of populating Karabakh and in liberated territories reunited to it. This is especially important based on the fact that there are many Armenians who leave the country without having necessary conditions to live. Authorities should help those people to reside in Karabakh by securing sufficient conditions for life. Moreover, 10,000 people should reside there annually.

We call the authorities to accelerate the process based on Azerbaijan’s another violation of a point in the document signed by Baku, which can be either militant statement or snipers’ shots at the contact-line. Moreover, populating Karabakh  is not a violation from Armenian side, and can be accepted as the best way to lessen tense by Baku in the region,” the statement reads.