“Victorious people cannot be ordered with an agenda,” Anush Dulukhanyan, the spokesperson of former Defense Army Commander Samvel Babayan’s United Homeland political party, told Aravot Daily upon being asked about her opinion of Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov’s statement that the Artsakh conflict resolution is currently in the phase-by-phase stage that was agreed upon one year ago in Moscow during a meeting between the ministers of foreign affairs.
“Any document, agenda, or mechanism that violates the people of Artsakh’s right to territorial integrity, self-determination, and the right to live freely is unacceptable for us,” she said, adding that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had said in Kapan that no documents are on the negotiations table.
According to the United Homeland spokesperson, the Russian foreign affairs minister’s statement seems to be neutral, but it was a political statement in reality, which official Yerevan responded to with a clear agenda that nothing will be compromised. But as far as why Sergey Lavrov made such a statement while political changes were taking place in Armenia and Artsakh, Anush Dulukanyan said that it is difficult to guess. “Azerbaijan is justifying its desired agenda with the help of Russia.”
Anush Dulukanyan
Dulukhanyan also said that Samvel Babayan had expressed his opinion in detail of the foreign affairs policy of Nikol Pashinyan’s government and the policies inherited from the former authorities in his statement. Samvel Babayan is not in a hurry to make other comments in this stage.
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“We reconfirm that an important precondition for the negotiations process to be more effective and for Artsakh’s return to the negotiations table is that we need to have a full socioeconomic life. We need to have a strong economy, developed infrastructure, and a prepared army, which will be when Azerbaijan will consider Artsakh’s interests. We also had this precondition in the ‘90s when all Armenians were asking for the support of the international community, but international agencies responded with calls to action and requests. When we began to attack and withstand everything on our own, Azerbaijan had no other choice but to accept our existence. This resulted in the ceasefire agreement signed in 1994. We had a professional army and economic freedom. This was the way out of negotiations,” Anush Dulukhanyan said.
The president-elect of Artsakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, responded to Sergey Lavrov’s statement by excluding the possibility of Artsakh authorities making one-sided or unequal concessions. The United Homeland party is not commenting on the new president’s statement at this point.
Nelly Grigoryan
