Armenia`s authorities must report area of territories transferred to  Azerbaijan - opposition MP

ArmInfo.The current government of Armenia keeps secret from its own people how many square kilometers  of territory have been transferred to Azerbaijan. This was stated by deputy of the Hayastan faction Artur Khachatryan on July 12 in the National Assembly.

The day before, at an extraordinary meeting of parliament, addressing  the head of the Cadastre Committee Suren Tovmasyan, the deputy asked  how many kilometers of territory were transferred to Azerbaijan in  Tavush and after the withdrawal of troops from the village of  Shurnukh in Syunik <due to a cadastral error>. The head of the  Cadastre retorted, pointing out that "the territories were not  surrendered to the Turks." <When strengthening the state border, it  became known that state registration of rights (to property) was  carried out on the basis of incomplete legal documents - these are  decisions of the head of the community and cadastral maps. The  decisions of the head of the community will be assessed by law  enforcement," he concluded.

NA Speaker Alen Simonyan hastily answered for Tovlasyan, pointing out  that "for the thousandth time I am forced to repeat: Not a centimeter  of the ancestral territory of Armenia was surrendered to anyone." "As  for the territories mentioned by Khachatryan, a house, a kiosk, a  small barn, and perhaps one more unfinished building were transferred  there (to Azerbaijan)," Simonyan assured. The main thing, the NA  speaker emphasized, is that there is hope for establishing peace with  Azerbaijan.

"If it weren't a secret (the area of the territories), then today  they (the authorities) would stand up and say how much was handed  over," Arthur Khachatryan decisively stated today.

The opposition and, in particular, the Tavush for the Motherland  movement accuse the RA authorities of unilateral concessions and the  surrender of strategically important territories of the country.  Thus, according to the protocol-description of the commission on  delimitation and demarcation of borders, in the area of the village  of Kirants, Tavush region of the Republic of Armenia, two houses, a  bridge, a section of the interstate road to Georgia and about 50 land  plots go to Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, as legal scholars stated, the  villagers have cadastral certificates, which means that these  territories belong to the Republic of Armenia.

On May 20, the RA Ministry of Justice stated that cadastral  certificates for real estate were issued to residents of the Tavush  village of Kirants in the past by mistake.