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Azerbaijan’s threats to arrest Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan, which are actually about kidnapping, point to the start of a deeper and more dangerous processes than it seems at first sight, according to Armenian MP Tigran Abrahamyan from the opposition With Honor faction.

"Given that many of our compatriots were put on Azerbaijan's " blacklist”, these threats are not actually addressed to one person,” he wrote on Facebook on Thursday.

“Even if in terms of the international law the accusations of the Azerbaijani law enforcement agencies are baseless, the risks stemming from them are not diminished.

“In the current situation, it is up to the relevant bodies of Armenia to crack down on Azerbaijani blackmail through various international structures.

“If Azerbaijan succeeds in making its steps in this process acceptable to the international community (and is already working on it), while the Armenian authorities show indifference and inaction as usual, pretending that they have nothing more to do when it comes to the Artsakh issue, we will soon witness new Azerbaijani provocations," the lawmaker said.