Ambassador with special assignments Edmon Marukyan put forward a number of CP theses in an interview given to 24 News yesterday. In addition to the fact that during the entire conversation,
Marukyan “washed Nikol Pashinyan’s face”, he also stated that preserving the lost institutions of Artsakh is a matter of national security for Armenia. “No institute of Artsakh will work in RA, it is a matter of national security,” said Marukyan. It is a fact that for thirty years, Azerbaijan consistently, step by step, achieved its goal – it finally occupied the Republic of Artsakh, and now Aliyev is making peace with Yerevan, Sevan and Syunik. And what are the current authorities of Armenia doing? They dissolve the various structures of Artsakh, fight with the opposition in the National Assembly and accuse them, blame the authorities of Artsakh for handing over Artsakh, and even remove the word “Artsakh” from our vocabulary. This statement of Marukyan was not accidental either. This is one of the defeatist theses of Nikol Pashinyan’s government today.

The authorities are even disbanding the operative headquarters of Artsakh, and are preparing to disband the representative office of Artsakh. All state institutions, universities, departments, and the Defense Ministry of Artsakh are being dissolved. A question arises. And how was Azerbaijan able to keep the dream of owning Karabakh for 30 years, how was it able to return the completely Armenian marz that was separated from it for 30 years? During that long-term struggle, Azerbaijan created many structures and public movements, financing and growing the artificial entity “Azerbaijani community of Karabakh” from Azerbaijanis who emigrated from Artsakh. He was campaigning all over the world about Artsakh being Azerbaijani and finally achieved his goal. And the Armenian government wants to erase the word “Artsakh” and the Artsakh state in just 10-15 days, which has existed for at least 30 years and is a historical Armenian land.

Why didn’t Azerbaijan, defeated 30 years ago, quickly abandon the idea of ​​having Artsakh? Why does the Armenian government come up with theses to forget everything? These are questions that have one answer. An agency network serving Azerbaijan’s agenda has come to power in Armenia.

During the Second World War, the foundation was laid for the phenomenon of governments in exile. The most famous were the Polish and French governments-in-exile that operated in Great Britain. The French government-in-exile immediately took power in France after the end of the war. The Polish problem was more complicated, because the Soviet army that liberated Poland formed a government (naturally, with the participation of Polish communist forces). If we go further into the historical past, we can observe the initial version of this phenomenon in the form of Jewish communities. Which were operating in many European and Asian countries when year At the beginning of the 2nd century, they were almost completely expelled from their homeland.

In the case of Nikol’s prime ministership, it is not even theoretically possible to form an exiled government of Artsakh in Armenia. Nikol cuts the roots of everything related to Artsakh, why would he allow such a structure to be formed in Armenia? As Ambassador with Special Assignments Marukyan Edmon stated, “Preserving the lost Artsakh institutions is a matter of national security for Armenia.” But since for Marukyan and all other Nikolists, the maintenance of Nikol’s power is “a matter of national security”, it would be much more honest if the Nikolian instruction to forget everything related to Artsykh was presented just like that.

It turns out that the exiled government of Artsakh can be formed only in the diaspora. But whichever country you take, it will be against the existence of that structure in its territory. So, whether we like it or not, the issue of the existence of the exiled government of Artsakh under Nikol can be considered closed. Instead, the Armenian Apostolic Church creates a diocese in exile, or rather, preserves the diocese of Artsakh, with bishop Vrtanes Bishop Abrahamyan as the leader of the diocese. What was done during the regular meeting of the Supreme Spiritual Council of the AAS. Considering that in the absence of statehood, our church has always taken on management functions, the same can be the case in this case. But we must also take into account that the enemies who occupied our territories allowed the official existence of the church, and Nikol’s government will try to cause problems in terms of the activities of the Artsakh Diocese. So the diocesan leader must be ready and able to overcome such obstacles.

Matevos Asatryan, an MP of the ruling Civil Contract Faction of the National Assembly (NA) of Armenia, has died mysteriously

According to reports, he died unexpectedly.

Asatryan was 38 years old.

He was married with three children.

Haykaz Jomardyan was awarded a gold medal by Avinyan

Tigran Avinyan, who became the mayor of Yerevan, awarded Haykaz Jomardyan with a gold medal with one of his first decisions.
The press wrote that it was on his order that the red berets detained the parents of those killed in “Yerablur”.
“Guided by sub-point 1 and point 10 of paragraph 5 of appendix N 1 of the decision N 604-N of Yerevan city council of February 12, 2013.

1. For his significant contribution to the maintenance of public order and conscientious activity, the commander of the special purpose battalion of the Yerevan Police Department of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs, lieutenant colonel of the police Haykaz Jomardyan, was awarded with the gold medal of the mayor of Yerevan,” said Avinyan’s decision.

He awarded 9 officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a commemorative medal of the 2800th anniversary of Erebuni Yerevan for their significant contribution to the preservation of public order and conscientious activity.

BREAKING: Israeli Settlers arrive with guns and dogs on the Cows’ Garden (Goverou Bardez). Around 15:00pm, a group of Israeli extremist settlers arrived on the scene where the Armenian community was having a peaceful sit-in. Danny Rothman, backed by 15 settlers, demanded the expulsion of the Armenians: “This is our land, leave the parking lot now!”

The Armenians refused to back down and stood firmly on their rightfully owned property. Israeli Police arrived on the scene to diffuse the situation, which prompted more settlers to arrive in a show of force. George Warwar, a Christian Arab, head of Xana Capital, and Mr. Rothman’s business partner, also made threats to Armenians: “I will get you, one by one!” Furthermore, one of the settlers gleefully announced: “You are all Goys and when the Messiah comes, you will all die”. The Armenian Patriarch, His Beatitude Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, in a rare show of unity, appeared on site and stood with the Armenian community of Jerusalem, backed by priests and bishops. The Israeli settlers and the united Armenian community were at a standoff. As of now, the settlers have left the premises. Further updates will follow. 301 correspondent

By Harut Sassounian,

We are all following the heartbreaking events that are taking place in Israel and Gaza where thousands of innocent people are killed, and hundreds have been taken hostage by Hamas. I condemn all loss of life and hostage-taking regardless of nationality, race or religion.

Throughout history, as victims of mass murders and Genocide, Armenians understand well the tragic effects of large-scale killings. Before, during and after the 2020 Artsakh war, the most gruesome crimes were committed against thousands of Armenian soldiers and civilians by Azeris.

At the end of the war, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia signed an agreement that called for the exchange of all Prisoners of War. Armenia kept its end of the bargain by freeing all Azeri prisoners immediately, while Azerbaijan is still holding dozens of Armenians in captivity three years later. No one knows their exact number. These detainees have been wrongly tried and sentenced to long prison terms not only in violation of the 2020 agreement, but also the Geneva Convention. Armenian prisoners have been tortured while in Azeri custody and an unknown number have been killed.

To make matters worse, after occupying Artsakh last month, Azerbaijan captured eight high-ranking Artsakh government officials, including three former presidents, the former State, Defense, and Foreign ministers, deputy army commander, and Chairman of the Artsakh Parliament. They are all held as hostages with no hope that they will be released anytime soon.

Turning to the tragic predicament of the over 200 hostages captured by Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023, I support all efforts to have these hostages released as soon as possible. Several hundred Hollywood celebrities, including Madonna, Chris Rock, Justin Timberlake, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jerry Seinfeld, and Tyler Perry, signed a joint letter to Pres. Joe Biden urging him to “not rest until all hostages are released.”

Last week, an article appeared in various entertainment magazines and websites that publicized the letter signed by the celebrities to Biden. The press release about the letter was distributed to the media by Melissa Zukerman, the Managing Partner at Principal Communications Group, a PR agency in in Los Angeles. Despite the good intentions of the initiators of the campaign, a regrettable mistake detracted from the commendable effort.

The letter included a paragraph that said: “We urge everyone to not rest until all hostages are released. No hostage can be left behind. Whether American, Argentinian, Australian, Azerbaijani, Brazilian, British, Canadian, Chilean, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Eritrean, Filipino, French, German, Indian, Israeli, Italian, Kazakh, Mexican, Panamanian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, South African, Spanish, Sri Lankan, Thai, Ukrainian, Uzbekistani or otherwise, we need to bring them home.”

I commend the celebrities, Ms. Zukerman and everyone else who had a hand in preparing the letter to Pres. Biden. However, I was surprised to see in the list of captured nationalities a reference to ‘Azerbaijani’ hostages. As I had not heard that any Azerbaijani was kidnapped by Hamas from Israel, I wondered if that information was accurate. So, I sent Ms. Zukerman an email asking about the veracity of the reference to an Azerbaijani hostage. She did not reply to my email. She also ignored my follow-up email as well as a phone message I left for her.

Having done further research, I discovered that there were no reports about an Azerbaijani hostage, except for eight Azerbaijanis, of which two were dual Azerbaijani-Israeli citizens, who were regrettably killed by Hamas during the attack.

I then contacted the agent of one of the celebrities who had signed the letter and asked her if she knew anything about an Azerbaijani who was taken hostage by Hamas. The celebrity’s agent told me that in the version of the letter that her client had signed there was no mention of Azerbaijan or any other nationality. When I sent her the copy of the letter publicized in the media, she was shocked to learn that Ms. Zukerman’s office had asked the celebrities to sign a version of the letter that did not include the names of the 33 nationalities, Ms. Zukerman’s office must have then sent the altered version of the letter to Pres. Biden without informing the celebrities that what they had signed is not what was sent to the White House. Appallingly, these celebrities were not informed of the change in the letter either before or after signing it. This is highly unprofessional and unethical.

So, this is how Azerbaijan was included wrongly in a letter to Pres. Biden, making one its citizens a victim of hostage-taking, while in reality, Azerbaijan is the one that is guilty of taking Armenian hostages. Regrettably, Ms. Zukerman ignored all of my attempts to find out from her how such a mistake could have happened, and why no effort was made to correct it or at least provide a proper explanation? As far as I know, there are no Azerbaijani hostages in Gaze or anywhere else in the world. If I am wrong, Ms. Zukerman had plenty of chances to correct my information but refused to do so.

Lastly, the letter stated, “No hostage can be left behind” (www.NoHostageLeftBehind.com), which implies that all hostages in the world, no matter who had captured them and wherever they are, should be released. Such an all-inclusive plea should have also referred to the dozens of Armenian hostages held in Azerbaijan.

Only when we care about all hostages without any distinction, we can claim that we are true humanitarians.