The discussion of the implementation of the government plan continues. Today was the fourth day and the quota was not met in the beginning. Instead of the necessary 67 deputies, 65 had registered.
Two more deputies came late, and the session began.
My Step deputy Hovik Aghazaryan presented his personal analysis of the defeat during the 44-Day War and said that he looks at history from the point of view of the last 120 years. “Over the last 30 years, all of us, including Levon Ter-Petrossian, Robert Kocharyan, Serzh Sargsyan, and us with all of you, all of us with our flaws created our state on a portion of our historical homeland. Let’s look at it from that perspective. We have an independent state and a plundered Artsakh on one portion of our historical homeland.”
Bright Armenia deputy Anna Kostanyan said that the government did not increase funding for science, and steps towards making the science sector more competitive are not visible. Modern conditions for young scientists to live and work in Armenia were not established, and they were not provided with the connections between education, science, and the labor market.
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Regarding the war, Anna Kostanyan said that the government went forward with the “we will negotiate whatever we want” principle, and it was toothless in response to Turkish-Azerbaijani insults. “If you cannot speak in a diplomatically equivalent language, step aside and let those who can speak. And who said that in the war or afterwards we have to appear in front of the world with a weak and crooked attitude? It is impossible to keep people blind and brainwashed with manipulation. We’ve had enough of trying to look for the culprits among the former regime because you are, at the very least, the main ones responsible for the start of the war and its tragic end. You could have predicted it, but you did not.”
In Kostanyan’s opinion, the government allowed criminal failures to take place, and they went on the path of destructive adventure. “We had two turning points during the war: Operation Lele Tepe and the surrender of Shushi. So far, we do not know the details or the reasons for the first or second operations. How did it happen and who were the culprits? The Prime Minister said that he has questions about Shushi related to specific people. I’m sorry, but if the number one person in the country has questions about the fall of Shushi five months after the trilateral agreement, does this not prove once again that the government is not in its place?”
According to the deputy, the answers to the questions of whether this was an act of carelessness or betrayal, and why those who were to blame were not punished must be found prior to the elections, and that needs to have at least a factual basis instead of speech full of populism once again.
Hripsime Jebejyan
