“They see the danger. The person has managerial experience, resources, potential, has connections abroad. It is a danger to Azerbaijan. They understand; Ruben Vardanyan can create dangers for their politics with all this,” Azerbaijani expert.
Taron Hovhannisyan expressed his opinion during the discussion held at the “Media Center.” To remind you, the other day during the meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov stated. “Today, there are foreign elements in our region. I mean Ruben Vardanyan.
His activities are criminal and adventurous. It should be stopped. The sooner this person leaves the region, the better it will be for him. First, he harms the local population and their reintegration because before his appearance, there were already positive contacts, and his factor has a harmful and destabilizing effect. According to Turkologist Mushegh Khudaverdyan, many Armenians are considered undesirable persons in Azerbaijan, one of whom is Ruben Vardanyan. “He came from Russia to Artsakh, which Azerbaijan considers part of it, and he did not ask Azerbaijan; therefore, like many other figures who visited Artsakh, he appeared on the Azerbaijani “denylists.”
Azerbaijan states that those people should go to Artsakh with the consent of the Azerbaijani government, and there have been such people in the last 30 years.”
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According to Taron Hovhannisyan, Ruben Vardanyan can be a severe obstacle to serving the main agenda of Azerbaijan – the annexation of Artsakh, the so-called Zangezur Corridor, etc. “No matter how much we talk about the shortcomings of the Russian peacekeepers, the Russian Federation would not agree to Azerbaijan’s military entry and occupation of the territory under its control. But Azerbaijan has done the same thing, with different packaging.
“We are fighting against eco-terror,” which can seriously harm Artsakh’s economy. They are fighting against Ruben Vardanyan, whose departure can still significantly harm Artsakh. According to the speaker, the Azerbaijani side, in addition, is trying to exhaust the issue of Artsakh having a legitimate government through elections, making the way to achieve its goal relatively easier. He added that there are different discussions about Ruben Vardanyan in Armenia.
“We have not reached a reality where our greatest danger will be whether Artsakh is part of the Russian Federation. We are standing at the fateful point that, at this very moment, Artsakh will not be de-Armenianized and will not be a part of Azerbaijan. We have not solved this problem yet; we are discussing whether Artsakh should be a part of the Russian Federation. Ridiculous, or rather pathetic.”
Nelly GRIGORIAN
