No territories surrendered - Head of RA Cadaster 

ArmInfo.When and to what extent did the compilers of the maps make a mistake, on the basis of which  "erroneous" certificates of land ownership were issued in the Kirants area of the Tavush region and at what point did this become known? 

This was the question asked by Hayastan faction deputy Artur  Khachatryan on July 11 in the National Assembly during the  presentation of a package of bills on introducing additions to the  law "On geodetic and cartographic activities" and amendments to  related laws.

The head of the Cadastre Committee, Suren Tovmasyan, refrained from  commenting on the issue of the scale of the "inaccuracy" of the  scale, since this fact was revealed during the delimitation. But he  assured that "the territories were not surrendered to the Turks." 

The opposition and, in particular, the Tavush in the Name of the  Motherland movement accuse the RA authorities of unilateral  concessions and the surrender of strategically important territories  of the country.  Thus, according to the protocol-description of the  commission on delimitation and demarcation of borders, in the area of  the village of Kirants, Tavush region of the Republic of Armenia, two  houses, a bridge, a section of the interstate road to Georgia and  about 50 land plots go to Azerbaijan.

As opposition deputies stated, residents of Kirants are being forced  to abandon the cadastral certificates issued to them under the law of  the Republic of Armenia in favor of Azerbaijan.

On May 20, the RA Ministry of Justice stated that cadastral  certificates for real estate were issued to residents of the Tavush  village of Kirants in the past by mistake. The department responded  to a recent interview with constitutional law expert Vardan Poghosyan  given to one of the media. In it, Poghosyan, as an argument in favor  of the illegality of eviction of villagers from their homes as part  of border delimitation, stated that the villagers have cadastral  certificates, which means these territories belong to the Republic of  Armenia.