Artur Vanetsyan, the leader of the Homeland Party, told reporters on April 22 that they would not allow the authorities to hand over the land maintained at the cost of blood to the enemy with a single blow. According to him, people woke up after the sit-down strike. “There are thousands of people who come and express their indignation, most importantly, they say that we have no homeland to give in to the Turks.” Aravot asked about how people say that if they gather with 50 people, they can not save Artsakh, so instead, they should present an agenda or program to save Artsakh. Aravot also asked about when he will present it.
Vanetsyan answered, “Whoever says that fills the watermill of the authorities; 50, 100, 200, 5,000, do not save Artsakh in numbers. If we were not here now, believe me, there would already be signatures by which Artsakh would be handed over to the enemy. We have come here to show that Nikol Pashinyan is not authorized to make unilateral concessions on behalf of the Armenian people, to make non-Armenian decisions. We are here to show both the international community and the authorities that you can not hand over our country piece by piece to the enemy. Now we are here with 50 people or 100, I do not want to get into that discourse. People see that the political agenda is dictated by other media in Freedom Square and the fake campaign launched against us by the media spreading fake information, fake social media users, as well as the accumulation of so many police forces here, shows that no matter what the government says, they understand what is really happening. They have no way to maintain their power this time because this time, the people woke up and realized that regardless of their political views, they would come out and defend their homeland.”
To our observation about how he says that by this step, it shows that Pashinyan is not authorized, but Pashinyan says that 600 thousand people gave their so-called “approval” to the peace agenda, Vanetsyan responded, “They are lying. If you read the pre-election program of the CP, they have not changed it only a little, they have changed it significantly. They came saying that Artsakh will never be part of Azerbaijan, they will not concede a millimeter of land from the sovereign territory of Armenia, there will be no so-called Zangezur corridor.
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But today they are talking about lowering the status bar of Artsakh and the possible opening of the Zangezur corridor. They do not say we will not allow it, they say that if it is opened, it will violate the territorial integrity of Armenia. They throw it at the Russians, they say the Russians should do it, what should you do? The armed forces are changing, what have they done – nothing, they are judging two defense ministers, the General Staff still does not have a chief of staff. I know very well that the border must be guarded by the border troops, but I know very well what the border troops are doing. They are defending their trusted border, there are no other sections. What have they been doing for two years, talking about the dissolution of the Artsakh Defense Army? They say peace, how much, for what, for the lives of our boys? There is an answer – peace in exchange for keeping Nikol Pashinyan in power.”
Vanetsyan is convinced that although we are threatened with war, the international community will not allow war. How did they allow the 44-day war? Vanetsyan explained that Pashinyan did not meet Putin, he said it was an ordinary protocol, in Brussels he said that our brand was a democracy, it was part of the anti-Chinese program, he played with all the superpowers. “There is a well-known recording, isn’t there? Nikol Pashinyan was foaming at the mouth and saying, ‘We are sovereign, no one can do it with us, they go and lick this or that person’s shoes.’ You licked everyone’s shoes, including the enemy’s.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
