In a public statement, Armenia's Heritage Party says that it has made an urgent call to the governments of Artsakh and Armenia to immediately collaborate on repopulating the "liberated" territories.

The political party argues that this remains the overriding priority of the day given Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's continuing bellicose rhetoric and threats to re-establish Azerbaijan's territorial integrity by force if need be.

In its statement, the Heritage Party says that such a pan-national project is all the more vital given that Armenia's rural communities are turning into veritable ghost towns since families, who can no longer fend for themselves, are leaving en masse.

The party says that resources must be allocated to ensure the basic conditions and infrastructure needed to encourage these and others to relocate to the liberated lands in Artsakh.

At least 10,000 individuals yearly must be relocated to those lands, the party says.