There has been a complete failure from the Armenian government to properly address security issues this year, second Armenian President and opposition Hayastan bloc leader Robert Kocharyan told a year-end news conference on Monday, stating no security issues have been resolved in 2021.
Speaking about Armenia's territorial losses, the former president said the authorities acknowledge that 40 square meters of territory fell under Azerbaijan’s control.
"In fact, we don't control much more territory. This has not been talked about. I will try to explain," he said.
Kocharyan noted that the Armenian-Azerbaijani border delimitation using GPS, in fact, led to the deployment of the Azerbaijani troops along the line of their assumed border, as a result of which the Armenian military had to retreat 500 meters and in some places even 1-1.5 km and more.
"This happened not only in the border sections of Vardenis and Araks, but also in the Nakhichevan section even before the war. Do you remem...
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