Former head of staff of the Constitutional Court and former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Armenia to Poland Edgar Ghazaryan said on April 25 at the Hayeli press club, “I came across a headline on the Internet. It was said that Nikol Pashinyan had never visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial before becoming Prime Minister.
It’s true, it’s easy to verify, but it’s also very likely. Visiting a monument or a grave should have meaning. It means to have a spiritual connection with the deceased and to pay tribute. Now a question arises: if you do not recognize the Armenian Genocide, you consider it less important than trade, then why do you visit that monument? Dialogue with the Turks and the development of relations is possible.
But only if the Turkish president himself visits the monument or bows his head. Then something can be discussed. For example, the Poles are now cooperating with the Germans, even being a member of one alliance, NATO, and cooperating in many areas. But that was the case when the German Federal Chancellor bowed his head in the Auschwitz concentration camp and knelt before the monuments to the extermination of Jews and Poles. If that did not happen, the dignity of any Polish or Jew would not be enough to cooperate with them.
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Now, as long as the Turks do not accept the fact of the Armenian Genocide, do not regret it, and do not bear responsibility for it, what kind of relations are we talking about? If you value trade rather than memory, national dignity, for example, there is a Turkish company that produces toilet paper, toiletries. They could buy a block of it and bow to that package, thank the Turkish people for producing something that can be sold and profited off of. Which of Nikol Pashinyan’s teammates attach importance to trade? Let them go to Turkish companies, for example, and bow down in front of the office of a well-to-do company.”
Ashot HAKOBYAN
