"They brought an ax and threatened that if I don't sign the document they want, they will cut my neck." Vladimir Movsisyan told how they resisted the ambitions of Azerbaijanis in the 80s

Pastinfo wrote: "They brought an ax and threatened that if I don't sign the document they want, they will cut my neck." Vladimir Movsisyan told this story in the film made by journalist Ruzanna Khachatryan.

Statesman Vladimir Movsisyan was the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of Soviet Armenia, who, as we have already presented, coordinated the demarcation and demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border in the last years of Soviet Armenia. In addition, they took place in a rather difficult and life-threatening atmosphere. Movsisyan personally went to the so-called disputed areas to study on the spot, to understand through which specific terrain the border should be crossed, paying attention to the necessary infrastructures. In the 1980s, the villagers of Kyamarli, Azerbaijan, bordering the Noyemberyan region of Armenia, kidnapped the Armenian members of the delimitation commission who went to get to know the area, beat them and took them to their village.

Let's note that the given incident was recorded during the period when there was no open conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, however, they showed ambition to continuously use the forest areas and springs of bordering Armenian villages, to appropriate them.

During the Soviet Union, issues were resolved with letters of protest and signatures.

Azerbaijanis wrote letters to the Soviet authorities with the demand to use the cold springs of Dovegh forests. They were letters of complaint that Armenians consider the springs in the common Soviet territory to be theirs, although it was about forests and springs in the territory of Armenia itself. It was letters like this that caused the Soviet central authorities to instruct Demirchyan and Baghirov, the first secretaries of the Central Committee of Armenia and Azerbaijan at that time, to create a demarcation and demarcation commission.

"Pastinfo" has already informed about the existence and importance of the document signed as a result of the negotiated work. Let's remind that it was signed after 16 years of huge work. In point 6 of the document, we read: "Based on the facts presented by the land users, including the convenience of land use, with the agreement of the governments of the two countries, it is decided to proportionately return to the Shurnukh collective farm of the Armenian SSR the lands used by the collective farm of the Kubatlu region of the Azerbaijan SSR and to return the lands used by the collective farm of Voskepar and Baghanis of the Noyemberyan region Approximate plots of land of the houses of Askepara village of Kazakh region of the SSR of Azerbaijan.

However, this document was not developed without incidents. After a long period of work, the commission was in the process of completing the real border delimitation, and the Azerbaijanis realized that they were not achieving their goal, and organized an unprecedented action. They stole Vladimir Movsisyan and two other members of the rally who went to the border area of Noyemberyan and took them to their village. On the way, they allegedly staged an angry mob action and beat the captives, took them to the village club, made them sit on a long bench placed in front of the hall full of villagers, threatened Vladimir Movsisyan that they will cut his neck with an ax if he does not include the territories they want in the demarcation document as part of Azerbaijan. Fortunately, Noyemberyan's militia had foreseen such a provocation and the militiaman personally, with a specially armed group, entered the Azerbaijani village and forced the release of Movsisyan and two other Armenian specialists taken with him, under the threat of giving the order to shoot.