YEREVAN. – The proposal to sever the Treaty of Moscow is not beneficial to Armenia, and the persons behind this proposal want to plunge us into a war.

The chairman of Armenia’s opposition People’s Party, Tigran Karapetyan, stated the aforementioned at a press conference on Tuesday.

In his words, the situation has aggravated.

“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan headed for Azerbaijan; CSTO [i.e. the Collective Security Treaty Organization] Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha announced that the Russian [military] base in Armenia is not for confronting with Turkey, [and that] it resolves other matters,” Karapetyan stressed. “All this is worrisome for Armenia.”

As reported earlier, Russian State Duma members Valery Rashkin and Sergei Obukhov petitioned to President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and proposed to sever the brotherhood and friendship treaty (Treaty of Moscow), which the then Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Bolshevist Russia) and Turkey had signed in 1921.

In their respective letter, these Russian Communist Party MPs point to the consistency in Turkey’s aggressive behavior.

Pursuant to the 1921 Treaty of Moscow, most of Kars Province, southern part of former Batumi Province, and Surmalu District—along with Mount Ararat—of Yerevan Province were handed over to Turkey.