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MP Tigran Abrahamyan from the opposition With Honor faction says the Armenian authorities are trying to hide the truth, pushing the key issues to the background and focusing on the secondary ones.

Speaking at a news conference on Friday, he blamed the authorities for the failure to deal with the security issues and respond to Azerbaijan’s audacious actions.

His comments came after the news on the installation of Azeri checkpoints on the Goris-Kapan road section from Thursday midnight.

"The authorities say, ‘we have built a bypass road, it is a really good road and is of higher quality than the one where Azerbaijan has wedged in, it is safer and meets international standards.’ But what does the quality of the road have to do with what we are talking about? Apart from invading different parts of the Republic of Armenia and taking control of our important infrastructures, Azerbaijani forces pose a serious threat to our settlements,” the lawmaker stated.

Tigran Abrahamyan stressed that instead of preventing the Azerbaijani aggression or minimizing the security threats, the authorities are trying to legitimize the Azerbaijani provocations by claiming that the actions of Azerbaijan stem from the realities emerged after the war and are in accordance with the Soviet maps.

"The Armenian authorities have undertaken the role that Azerbaijan was supposed to play, i.e. they justify, legitimize Azerbaijan's steps, further narrowing down our negotiation opportunities,” Abrahamyan said.