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YEREVAN, DECEMBER 11, ARMENPRESS. Member of Parliament Gevorg Papoyan has dismissed as “unreasonable” the statements made by Azerbaijani authorities about the need for guarantees ruling out possible revanchism in order to sign a peace treaty.

Papoyan, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Financial-Credit and Budgetary Affairs, said that signing a peace treaty in itself would mean that no revanches would happen.

“Our perception of peace doesn’t have such things [revanchism],” Papoyan said.

“I think that a peace treaty itself is about no revanches happening…..We must understand, if we want Armenia to get stronger, for it to have lasting statehood, independence, then this path goes through dialogue with neighbors, and we need a peace treaty as much as they do,” Papoyan added.

MP Papoyan said that after the signing of a peace treaty he envisions regional integration at all levels, development of economic relations, prosperity and growth in living standards.

He warned that some “external forces” could try to incite revanchist sentiments. “But we must not become an instrument in the hands of third countries,” Papoyan said.