Tomorrow Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan starts his visit to Brussels by scheduled meetings with EU authorities.
Meanwhile in Yerevan minutes ago supporters of Pashinyan violently attacked Narek Malyan, civic activist and one of the pre-eminent opponents of the current Armenian government.
Since April 2018 blackmailing, personal attacks, threats, intolerance and inflammatory rhetoric become the essential parts of so-called “velvet” leaders’ domestic modus operandi, under personal responsibility of Mr Nikol Pashinyan.
Undoubtedly, Pashinyan will try to use his BRUSSELS’s tour to mislead European community about real political situation in Armenia. Populistic government should stop telling the fairytales both abroad and inside the country and should be faced with real facts of backsliding democracy in Armenia and dangerous records on human rights issues.
Democracy is not only winning elections. Democracy is about equal rights, freedoms and accountability.
I do believe that European Union will not misplace its spectacles and will have clear-eyed look at the erosion and downfall of democracy in Armenia.
Armen Ashotyan
RPA Vice President
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