Sasna Tsrer offers making Artsakh Armenia’s region to prevent it from sharing Abkhazia’s fate: Zhirayr Sefilyan

Sasna Tsrer All-Armenian party is launching a process on giving Artsakh a status of Armenia’s region, coordinator of the secretariat of the party Varuzhan Avetisyan told the reporters today.

“The launch must be given with giving the residents of Artsakh a right to participate in elections, referendums in Armenia,” Avetisyan said.

The party will launch the process via its division in Artsakh.

As to whether in his opinion the people of Artsakh who reached independence will agree to get the status of Armenia’s region, party member Zhirayr Sefilyan said, “The absolute majority shares this idea, I think all will like the process we are launching.”

Sefilyan stressed that the decision on granting Artsakh status of Armenia’s region must be reserved for the authorities to be formed in 2020.

“It is necessary to hurry in this issue, if not, we all notice the speeded-up geopolitical processes and the danger on our country. Artsakh faces the danger of becoming Abkhazia. We must prevent this danger day ago,” Zhirayr Sefilyan said.

He voiced hope that the Armenian authorities will participate in the process.

Asked to clarify the qualifications of “danger of becoming Abkhazia”, Sefilyan said everything is clear – the threat of Russia’s influence hangs over Artsakh. Sefilyan said he came to such position following the recent developments.

“We will open the brackets during the upcoming days. But I repeat, following the recent geopolitical developments, we need to speed-up the process,” Sefilyan said.