GENERALS SETTLED ON LIBERATED TERRITORIES
Azg/am
30 Sept 04
Zhirayr Sefilian: There is no Program of Inhabiting Karabakh
Zhirayr Sefilian, of the Defense of Liberated Territories initiative
and veteran of Artsakh war, claims that there is no program
of inhabiting in Karabakh and surrounding territories. He stated
yesterday at the National Press Club that few generals have taken
over thousands of hectares while families from Armenia try to settle
there. Sefilian desisted from mentioning names of the generals.
Serzh Amirghanian, head of the Administration for Migration, Refugees
and Resettlement, doesn’t agree with Sefilian. “Generals are not the
only ones who possess lands in Karabakh. The Frank Muller company
has a bug territory in the south of Karabakh, Lusakert poultry farm
has 3 thousand hectares of maize fields”, Amirghanian said.
Recently the press often touches upon the possibility of liberated
territories being returned. Zhirayr Sefilian thinks that neither
Turkey nor the West are interested in who is controlling Aghdam. “The
Arax river creek is the main concern. The state that will control it,
will control whole of Caucasus”, he says. Turkey is interested in this,
and they try to conquer the creek, Sefilian thinks.
Serzh Amirghanian says that the Arax river creek is also partly
inhabited. 130 families settled in Zangelan, 70 in Jebrail this
year. He says that there are 700-800 families are willing to live in
Artsakh but the government can afford inhabiting only of 200 families.
By Tatoul Hakobian