Favorable positions in Kapan to be handed over to the enemy tomorrow by 5p.m. – mayor confirms

Tomorrow by 5 p.m. favorable positions of Kapan will be handed over to the enemy.

The information was confirmed to Aysor.am by Kapan’s mayor Gevorg Parsyan.

“It is correct information. It is a painful order for us. Today in the morning we were ordered to leave by tomorrow 5 p.m. our favorable positions we were holding by November 9 ensuring security zone for Kapan,” he said, adding that they have been ordered to retreat along the borderline.

Asked whether it has been envisaged by the signed trilateral statement, Parsyan said he has not see anything about Zangelan and Kubatlu regions in it.

“The territory near us is Zangelan, the territory near Goris is Kubatlu. This agreement does not say anything about Kubatlu and Zangelan regions,” he said.

The mayor stressed that he has many times stated not to make any decisions without local self-governmental bodies.

“They did not listen. I was afraid of it. This is why I was raising the security issue so many times,” he stressed.

He said that the situation in Kapan now is tense, citizens are holding action and added that he joined the demonstrators too.