“Yesterday, Nikol Pashinyan was spreading lies about how there was never an issue of Artsakh’s status, and there was only the issue of handing over territory. These are immoral lies,” the Vice President of the Republican Party and representative of the I Have Honor alliance, Armen Ashotyan, said during a meeting with reporters.
He urged people to read the statement of the Russian Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which is forgotten in the information noise. “It mentions what the negotiation legacy was like. It is written that after handing over five regions, the interim status of Artsakh will be obtained. How stupid and immoral do you have to be to fool your own people and deceive them? You lied that you killed so many children.”
Armen Ashotyan claimed that Pashinyan’s government even lied to the public after the war by conceding Armenia’s and Artsakh’s interests. Then, as proof, Armen Ashotyan published a document that was created in April that needed to have been accepted during the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly’s Ordinary Session, but it was not accepted solely due to the fact that one of the countries used it’s right to veto from its perspective. According to Armen Ashotyan, the document is a message in formulation regarding the EU and Eastern partnership countries’ upcoming joint summit.
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Armen Ashotyan said that the document was presented as a plan during the Euronest Bureau Session, and the Armenian delegation did not object. “One of the points of the document calls on the international community, the EU, and the national parliaments of the Eastern Partnership to condemn the processes and public messages that contain hatred, extremism, and, pay attention, revanchism. It is about condemning revanchism in post-conflict situations. Who brought the word “revanchism” to the public: Azerbaijan and Nikol, Azerbaijan and the Lenanazaryans? In other words, with this they wanted to shut our people’s and European political opposition’s mouths. The other point says that Euronest reaffirms the OSCE’s support for the efforts and, pay attention, confidence-building measures. In other words, there is a political message here to reformulate the OSCE mandate. And the Armenian delegation agreed to this paper. With these two bombs, our authorities allegedly presented Armenia and Artsakh to Europe. This is betrayal. There will be more such papers; this one was passed on by our sources.”
Luiza Sukiasyan
