The I Have Honor faction organized hearings in the National Assembly. The former Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan made a speech, saying that they had initiated a message with the leader of the Democratic Party of Armenia Aram Gaspari Sargsyan, in which they want Armenians to resume the process of recognizing Artsakh’s independence and to declare that they support it.
“We have already achieved success, and quite interesting people have signed it. We think that the Azerbaijani authorities, together with the Armenian authorities, are destroying all the grounds for the recognition of Artsakh, leading to erosion. We see serious dangers. After the meeting with the Artsakh leadership, we got the impression that nothing is being done to recognize Artsakh, even to advance the issue within the framework of the Minsk Group Co-Chairs. The Minsk Group Co-Chairs refuse to meet when Aliyev shouts at them and they do nothing. Now they are blowing up the gas pipeline, next time they will cut off the connection with Artsakh and say, ‘Well, get out of Artsakh.’
There should be no illusions.” He said that after his speeches, various bodies were invited to say, “You are suggesting that we are weak.” Bagratyan said, “Well, you are weak, there is no budget, there is nothing, we are weak under your administration. Doesn’t Azerbaijan open websites and see if Armenia’s budget has increased or decreased. It is not possible, are they so stupid? The budget depends on the website of the National Assembly, the website of the government, and the Ministry of Finance. What do you want? Especially in connection with the events in Ukraine, people are watching carefully when they will attack Armenia. There is no other topic. In fact, taking away the inflation, they increase the budget by 22% and buy such weapons…
Do I live in Armenia or Azerbaijan now? Weapons are not available to us, we can not hit it. The latest “Bayraktar” rises up to 13 km, do you understand what this means? We will propose to turn 40 border villages into military settlements, train men and women between the ages of 16 and 60 to shoot, invite them to training once a week, build capsules, dig those trenches, dig a trench, dig 30 meters deep. Capsules 3-5 meters deep. Give a person such an opportunity, you will not hand over an inch of land. Do such a thing, it is a story of 300-400 million to build such capsules on the borders of Armenia, but you only give yourself bonuses.”
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Bagratyan warned about the danger and asked the Civil Contract members what they are going to say to the world later. Are they going to say that we had another genocide or are they going to say that this person “lied” to us, they did not defend? “We deceive ourselves first, no matter what strategic partners we have, who I think will never be wrong if we do the wrong thing. We can not take the soldier out, sit him down against the tyrant and say, “Well, fight.” There is no such fight, each weapon has its answer and the answer is 5-10 times cheaper than the offensive weapon. Nothing is done, it is announced from these podiums that we have a lot of such weapons, but we do not have a single exhibit. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the days will heat up and dry up, experience shows that the Turks do not like to be buried in the mud and the danger is more than 50% that there will be an attack on Armenia in April-May. Let me be wrong, let’s get ready for that.”
He stated that he estimates the danger of war at more than 50% and expects that there will be an attack on Armenia. The rest of the “false” rumors that there will be border demarcation and delimitation will not be done by the enemy.
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