Armenian authorities are investigating whether maps were once provided to UN for publication
ArmInfo.An official investigation is underway in Armenia into the issue of Yerevan sending maps to the
UN, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said during government hour in parliament on April 10.
Thus, MP David Arushanyan stated that recently one of the research
institutes published maps that the Republic of Armenia sent to the UN
in different years. "The territory of Nagorno Karabakh was not
included in those maps, and the village of Tigranashen was marked as
an Azerbaijani enclave," he noted. In addition, he recalled,
yesterday NA Speaker Alen Simonyan demonstrated a letter sent by the
Tavush regional administration to the government in 2016, which
became the basis for amendments to the legislative act. This letter
showed that there was never a settlement named Askipara in Tavush.
"Now an official investigation is being carried out on this matter.
We also had questions about whether maps were provided by Armenia to
the UN at one time for publication," the prime minister said.
Pashinyan noted that the latest changes to the maps were made in
2013. "We found out something very strange: there is no information,
at least in the Armenian Foreign Ministry, about sending maps to the
UN. At least, no such data has been discovered so far," he noted.