BHK lawmaker to Serzh Sargsyan: We shall have nothing left if we lose little by little (video)
In an interview with Armenian journalists on board his presidential jet whiling returning to Yerevan from Vienna, Serzh Sargsyan said ‘we lost only some 800 hectares of land in the April 2-5 hostilities in Karabakh, while the total security zone held by Karabakh forces is 800,000 hectares.’ Vahram Baghdasaryan, Head of the Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), says there is no need to return the 800 hectares of land. “Each human loss is important for us and I do not think that those 800 hectares are worth new losses,” Mr Baghdasaryan said on Wednesday. The republican lawmaker is not particularly concerned about the lost 800 hectares of land though he is well aware that many Armenian soldiers were killed in the April skirmishes for those territories. “800 hectares of land is nothing compared with the 800,000 hectares of land. This area does not have any strategic importance,” Mr Baghdasaryan added. Unlike the HHK lawmaker, Vahagn Makhsudyan from the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) says Armenia lost from the very beginning: we failed to foresee the attack and lost 800 hectares of land. “We received reports that Azerbaijan was amassing weapons and troops along sectors of the frontline. Why didn’t we take out our tanks against the enemy’s tanks?” Mr Makhsudyan said. The lawmaker says neither Armenia nor Nagorno-Karabakh was prepared for Azerbaijan’s aggression but we need not suffer from the loss of 800 hectares. “We may lose or acquire new territories but we should think of returning those 800 hectares,” the BHK lawmaker said. The lawmaker knows that Serzh Sargsyan also spoke about respecting truce and the need to avoid a war and losses. He said we need not try to return the territories lost in the four-day war at the cost of new victims. However, the lawmaker disagrees with Sargsyan and says, “We shall have nothing left if we lose little by little.” Mr Makhsudyan adds that we should fight for every inch of land.
