“The first government of the Republic of Armenia was neutral in the issue of the Armenian Genocide, because according to its position, relations with Turkey had to start from a new page. In any case, when the Armenian forces liberated Karvachar, the Turks closed the border,” Artur Khachatryan, a member of the Armenia parliamentary faction and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, told Aravot.am, referring to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s statement that Armenia has never pursued a policy of the Armenian Cause and that Armenia has never made a territorial claim to Turkey.
“During the second president’s administration, we saw that the policy of international recognition and condemnation of the genocide became a direction of the foreign policy of the Republic of Armenia. And the third president tried to improve diplomatic relations with Turkey, but we know how it ended. The policy pursued by the current government is worse than the first government. They are ready to give up everything, and at the political level they try to justify concessions with possible economic prosperity. It is a lie and an exaggeration,” Artur Khachatryan expressed conviction.
According to him, this government has been trying to burn Armenia-Diaspora ties for three years already. “He is trying to say that the genocide is the Diaspora’s problem. In other words, Armenia is alienated from the work of international condemnation of the Armenian Genocide and the elimination of its consequences.”
Read also
Luiza Sukiasyan
