If we don’t create a situation, which rules out resumption of war, the victory of Karabakh is not yet in our hand.

MP of the Armenian National Assembly, Levon Zurabyan, who ranks third on the Congress-PPA [i.e. People’s Party of Armenia] alliance candidate list, announced the aforementioned at the meeting with Armavir city voters on Saturday.

“The April war was in reality a warning to us that the issue is not only not resolved, but also that it makes our security more vulnerable. The fact that the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has chosen “Security and Progress” as its motto already implies much, since the RPA had been long trying to convince that the Karabakh issue is not resolved. 

They always said that the Karabakh issue is resolved, that the security issue is resolved and that we can develop for another 100 years without the resolution of the confrontation.

This was the key motto. And now it turns out that all these were empty words, a lie and that the 18 years following the resignation of [former Armenian President Levon] Ter-Petrosyan became years of robbery and exploitation, our security not only not improving, but the other way round: we have appeared in a worse situation than we have ever been in,” Zurabyan stressed.

In his words, if Armenia cannot create such a situation today to rule out the resumption of war, then the Karabakh victory is not yet in our hand.

“Today we ask for your help. Today the rescue of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh is in the settlement of that issue, which has remained unresolved since 1997.  The victory on the battlefield in a peace treaty should be finally enshrined. In 1994, we in some sense forced peace on Azerbaijan, but this was in reality a ceasefire based on the will of the conflicting parties. It was a temporary agreement to halt the military actions, since the sides needed time to make repositions and prepare to resume attainment of their goal through force,” Zurabyan said.

According to him, this means that what was achieved in 1994 was actually not enshrined anywhere, since Azerbaijan uses all this time to prepare for a new war.