Through shooting on the border and  spreading misinformation, Baku is  pressuring Yerevan to make concessions:  Seyran Ohanyan

ArmInfo. On March 27, Seyran Ohanyan the former Minister of Defense of Armenia and head of the Hayastan bloc, spoke to journalists in parliament about the recent  shooting  in border villages. He noted that the RA Defense Ministry  is concealing the truth.  According to Ohanyan, the Armenian  authorities are constantly facing pressure from Baku. However, the  authorities need this document for domestic political purposes.  Meanwhile, Baku is trying to prolong the process to gain maximum  dividends.

Meanwhile, everyone, including the opposition, aims for peace,  Ohanyan said. But today it is obvious that peace with Azerbaijan,  which continuously imposes new demands and preconditions for signing  a peace agreement, is an illusion.

Regarding the shootings in  border areas, particularly in Syunik, and  the Armenian Defense Ministry's response that shots are occasionally  recorded on the border, but they are not directed towards the  territory of Armenia,  the former head of the Defense Ministry noted:  <regardless their nature, information about such incidents must be  received>.

<The recent shootings on the border and the misinformation from  Azerbaijan are part of an information war. They are intended to exert  psychological pressure on the Armenian people, and serve as a signal  to the Armenian authorities - to expedite meeting the demands that  have been made outside of the peace agreement to secure its signing>,   Ohanyan said.

<Having a deep understanding of the psychology of the  military-political leadership of Azerbaijan>, Seyran Ohanyan is  convinced that Baku will try to get the maximum from Armenia and not  sign a peace agreement at this point.

As the MP pointed out, he recently spoke with residents of the  villages of Khnatsakh, and Vaghatur in Syunik, who said that  Azerbaijani positions are firing above the village towards Armenia.  <This means that information must be provided>, - he said. When asked  whether this means that the RA Ministry of Defense is being  deceptive, the former head of the Ministry of Defense noted: <I can  say that accurate information is not being provided>.