Lusine Shahverdyan,

At Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s December 24 Facebook press conference, scandalous remarks were made about Artsakh, which have been stirring up the Armenians of Artsakh for several days. Former officials of Artsakh, the parliamentary forces of Artsakh, the incumbent President of Artsakh, the Minister of Foreign Affairs made statements criticizing Pashinyan’s approaches and emphasizing that Artsakh’s sovereignty has no alternative.

Note ․ Pashinyan said that he did not agree that Artsakh could be Armenian, as Azeris also lived in the NKAO, who had to return as a result of all the negotiation proposals. “NKAO has never been Armenian in the content of the negotiations. In the past, when expressing my reservations about the content of the talks, I said, let’s assume that the referendum was to be held with an Armenian interpretation, and the Armenian interpretation never denied that the Azeri residents of Nagorno-Karabakh should take part in the referendum.

In this context, they can raise the issue of self-determination. Nagorno-Karabakh has always been considered an Azeri and Armenian territory, if the issue of self-determination was resolved, where would an Azeri resident live?”What is the catastrophe that took place in the negotiations in 2016, I will answer: 3 packages of proposals were presented, where for the first time since 2011 a sentence was not included that Nagorno Karabakh is receiving a transitory status,” Pashinyan said. that the UN adopted a resolution in 1993 recognizing the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, and answered the question of which country Nagorno-Karabakh belongs to. “I do not agree with the idea that Artsakh should be Armenian, Azeris also lived there.” Pashinyan stressed that he had inherited such negotiations from his predecessors, forgetting his earlier statement that he had started negotiations on Artsakh from his own point of view.”For the first time since 2011, there has been no mention of Nagorno-Karabakh being given a transit status,” Pashinyan said. to which country does NK belong, he answered. “I do not agree with the idea that Artsakh should be Armenian, Azeris also lived there.

” Pashinyan stressed that he had inherited such negotiations from his predecessors, forgetting his earlier statement that he had started negotiations on Artsakh from his own point of view.”For the first time since 2011, there has been no mention of Nagorno-Karabakh being given a transit status,” Pashinyan said. to which country does NK belong, he answered. “I do not agree with the idea that Artsakh should be Armenian, Azeris also lived there.” Pashinyan stressed that he had inherited such negotiations from his predecessors, forgetting his earlier statement that he had started negotiations on Artsakh from his own point of view.”Artsakh was supposed to be Armenian, Azeris also lived there.” Pashinyan stressed that he had inherited such negotiations from his predecessors, forgetting his earlier statement that he had started negotiations on Artsakh from his own point of view.”Artsakh was supposed to be Armenian, Azeris also lived there.” Pashinyan stressed that he had inherited such negotiations from his predecessors, forgetting his earlier statement that he had started negotiations on Artsakh from his own point of view.

After these statements, the experts expressed confidence that Pashinyan’s “era of peace” presupposes a renunciation of the political settlement of the Artsakh issue and the Azeriization of Karabakh. Arayik Harutyunyan answered Pashinyan 2 days later. “The full recognition of the right of the Armenians of Artsakh to self-determination is not subject to any reservation or concession, and the exclusive owner of this issue is the Armenians of Artsakh. Therefore, only the authorities of the Artsakh Republic are authorized to speak on behalf of the people of Artsakh. ” And yesterday the Artsakh parliament repeated almost the same thing, all the political forces made a statement condemning Pashinyan’s statements.”The fate of Artsakh has not been and will not be the monopoly of any political force. Expressing the opinion and position of the public and political circles of the Artsakh Republic, we express our disagreement and indignation over a number of harmful and dangerous formulations and ideas voiced during the interview. “

The reactions that followed the press conference forced Pashinyan to make “excuses” twice in the last two days, noting that he only recorded the content of the negotiations at the press conference, which took place until 2018. April, that is, before he became prime minister. However, it is noteworthy that before convening the press conference, Nikol Pashinyan tried to generate some processes in Artsakh and deprive Artsakh of the so-called subjectivity component in order to facilitate the implementation of his program.

According to our sources in Artsakh, Pashinyan, through Samvel Babayan, tried to behead Artsakh, to organize a process of impeachment of Arayik Harutyunyan, calculating that in this situation it is impossible to hold new elections in Artsakh. As a result, the president of Artsakh would be removed, and the new one would not be elected, and thus Pashinyan would fulfill the will of his foreign clients, making Artsakh a “living space” for Azeris and Armenians. As it is known, last week the 2022 budget was presented to the parliament of Azerbaijan. Taking into account that the opposition will vote against the draft budget, Samvel Babayan decided to use the moment, left for Artsakh, gathered his parliamentary faction and demanded that they vote against the budget. The calculation was that if the parliament managed to defeat the draft budget, the next so-calledThe logical step should have been the process of expressing no confidence in the President. Upon learning of this anti-government program of the Babayan-Pashinyan tandem, the Artsakh forces took countermeasures.

According to our information, former President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Bako Sahakyan and Arayik Harutyunyan met and discussed the way out of the situation. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan consulted with the opposition factions and presented the situation, as a result of which the opposition forces, subordinating the internal political contradictions to the state interest, did their best not to fail the draft budget. And in the December 23 vote, it was adopted by 18 votes to 11. Some of the opposition did not vote, some did not participate, some even voted for, because in case of 16 “against” it would not be accepted, and, as it is known, Arayik Harutyunyan’s support “Free Homeland” does not have 50 + 1 in the parliament alone and is a coalition Compiled with Samvel Babayan’s “United Homeland”. In fact, as in the case of Hayk Marutyan, whom Pashinyan brought to power and now removed from power,He brought Arayik Harutyunyan then, now he is trying to remove him.

Samvel Babayan’s party has 9 seats in the parliament, 9 out of 9 took part in the budget vote and voted against, Marcel Petrosyan voted for, but then, probably, he was afraid of Babayan’s verdict and stated that he also voted against. Two members of the three-member faction of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun took part and voted against, one of the two deputies of Ashot Ghulyan’s NDP was in favor, the other was against. to vote: In other words, the Artsakh opposition did not save Arayik Harutyunyan, but prevented, as we were told in private conversations, the conspiratorial plan to deprive Artsakh of its component of subjectivity.

Naturally, David Galstyan did not confess about the deep processes taking place in Artsakh last week. Asked how he explained that the MP from the radical opposition voted for the budget, he stressed that today their faction is one of the most oppositional forces, and they are not in favor of the authorities, but the state. If the draft budget was not adopted, in fact thousands of pensioners and workers would be left without pensions and salaries, and, as Galstyan said, the public interest meant declaring free voting, he himself was absent due to personal problems. “But I share the positions of the deputies of our faction,” he stressed.

It was not possible to contact Babayan’s party deputies, it is not ruled out that in the near future the balance of internal political forces in Artsakh will change and Babayan’s party will be pushed out of the process of governing the state system.

About 60 percent of the Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine will pass under the control of an industrial company registered in Russia. Chairman of the Competition Protection Commission (CPC) of Armenia, Gegham Gevorgyan, told this to a press conference Tuesday, summing up the results of the passing year.

“This year this was the biggest [business] deal in the sector of extraction of useful minerals,” Gevorgyan added.

He noted that another such huge business deal was made in Armenia in telecommunications.

“The Rostelecom shares were acquired by Electric Networks of Armenia company, as well as by individuals,” the CPC chairman informed.

An Armenian court has allowed law-enforcement authorities to arrest another soldier who was freed and repatriated by Azerbaijan earlier this month.

Major Narek Yeremian was among three dozen Armenian soldiers taken prisoner during the November 16 fighting on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border which left at least 13 troops from both sides dead. The Armenian military also lost two border posts in what Yerevan condemned as an Azerbaijani incursion into Armenian territory.

Baku freed ten POWs on December 4. A few days later, Armenia’s Investigative Committee arrested four of them on charges of violating “rules for performing military service.”

The law-enforcement body said they tried to negotiate with, rather than engage, Azerbaijani troops that attacked and seized their border post. It filed the same accusation carrying between three and seven years in prison against Yeremian.

A court of the first instance refused to sanction the officer’s arrest, however. The Court of Appeals overturned that decision late on Monday.

Yeremian’s lawyer, Karmen Poghosian, said on Tuesday that he only partly accepts the accusations and maintains that he and his subordinates “didn’t have enough time to destroy the enemy that intruded the position.”

“They didn’t leave their position, flee and surrender,” Poghosian told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.

A lawyer representing another arrested soldier said on December 14 that he and his comrades repeatedly warned their senior commanders about an Azerbaijani military buildup in the border area but were ordered not to open fire.

Armenian opposition politicians have for months accused the government of not allowing army units to shoot at Azerbaijani forces attacking them at various sections of the border. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian insisted on November 17 that neither he nor any other official had ever issued no-shoot orders.

Baku set free on December 19 ten other Armenian soldiers captured on November 16. None of them is known to have been indicted so far.

After handing a letter to the UN office in Armenia, the group of forcibly displaced residents of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), who were protesting Tuesday, marched to France Square in Yerevan.

They informed that about 25 days ago they had sent a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron.

“The main goal is to ask them for political asylum because if it continues like this, the existence of the [Armenian] community of [Artsakh’s] Hadrut [region, which is now under Azerbaijani occupation] will be easier to maintain in France than in Armenia,” displaced Artsakh resident Levon Hayryan told reporters.

These Artsakh former residents were informed at the French embassy that their aforesaid letter had already been sent to France, and that they will be informed in case of a reply.

Subsequently, these displaced Artsakh residents ended their demonstration.

By Harut Sassounian,

In October 2021, the Patriarch of Istanbul, Sahag Mashalian, delivered at the Holy Hovhannes Church in the Kumkape district of Istanbul a very strange sermon full of conspiracies and fear-mongering statements. His anti-scientific and irresponsible words were intended to deter his parishioners from getting vaccinated against the coronavirus, thus endangering their lives.

In his sermon, the Patriarch quoted from chapter 13, verses 16-18 of the Book of Revelation in the Bible. I am not a theologian, but I believe he is misusing verses from the Bible to spread falsehoods and disinformation. The Book of Revelation, an enigmatic work by Apostle John, has many interpretations, but linking his writings to a virus that surfaced two thousand years after his death is senseless and dangerous, particularly in Turkey which has the sixth highest number of deaths in the world from the coronavirus.

The Patriarch began his sermon by referring to the following passage of the Book of Revelation: The beast “forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name…. That number is 666.”

Here are excerpts from the Patriarch’s bizarre sermon which I have translated into English:

“And whoever will not have this seal [of the beast] will not be able to do any business, will not be able to travel, [and] will not even be able to eat bread…. Therefore, placing a technology chip in our body, on our hand or our forehead, we understand that it is the symbol of perfect control. This means that wherever you go, they will know where you are. Whatever information exists about you will be in it [the chip]: your illnesses, your relationships, your condition, [and] your bank accounts. It will all be in it. Your health will be in it. And without it, you will not be able to do anything. And, of course, this will be presented to us as progress, as a technological advantage. And sometimes we will willingly take this chip.

“These are no longer theories. In certain European countries, this system has started. What will we do? What will we be? When the time comes, they will compel us to have such chips in which it’s written 666 or the name of that son of Satan. What will we do? Christians have always spoken about this topic as a musing that it will happen in the future. People in the future should think about it. But it has come now. It came to our doors. In a few years, at the latest in the year 2030, this development will become a reality.

“What will we Christians do? Our church leaders, the Primates, should speak about this issue which they do not. But the faithful at the bottom of the church speak because the prophecy is so explicit, the word of God is so clear that it is spoken about. And what will happen when the leaders of the church, the Primates, those with the rank of Bishop do not talk about it, when the people at the bottom speak about it, then this will be spoken about in an exaggerated and redundant manner? The church has a doctrine called eschatology. It is the knowledge of the last days. In our faith we say that Christ shall return. This is an integral part of our faith. Therefore, the doctrine of the church, in a clear manner, should elucidate this topic to the Christian communities.

“Christian leaders should get together and speak about this issue, while it is still early. After these things happen, it will be too late. We should now come together and talk. Church and bishopric meetings should be held about this topic now, while we are still free and have the ability. In a few years, we will not have that ability. As a Patriarch, I call upon my people and church leaders to get interested in this topic and blow the horn. Because in the Bible, for us, for Christian leaders, there is a dreadful statement. By the mouth of prophet Ezekiel God says: I appointed you a watchman over this people. If you see the sword, the danger, and do not sound the alarm, and the sword comes, then their blood will reach you. But if you sound the alarm and say that the sword is coming, take precautions, and if they do not do that, the sword comes, then you are free of their blood. Therefore, for Christian leaders, a topic that is redundant or exaggerated, when Christian leaders come together and speak about a topic that is considered shameful, can speak about it. I commend those who listen to us and my people within the reach of my voice: the day has come! We can no longer postpone the eschatology. We are obligated to apply the healthy doctrine in our days, spread the faith and acquire the means to see what we can do….”

To show that the Patriarch’s alarming words about vaccination are not based on religion, all we have to do is refer to the statement issued by the Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II, about the vaccine.

According to a recent dispatch by Azatutyun.am, “The Armenian Apostolic Church dismissed religious reasons given by its believers refusing to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.” The Church’s Supreme Spiritual Council stressed that “vaccination does not pose a spiritual danger.”

The Church also announced that Catholicos Karekin II and many other clergymen have been vaccinated.

I hope Armenians will listen to the advice of the Catholicos and not that of the Patriarch of Istanbul regarding the coronavirus vaccine to save their own lives as well as the lives of those around them.

We must be ready for a pan-Armenian uprising. The statement of the ARF Bureau

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) has regularly outlined the challenges related to the process of normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations, especially with the participation of the current Armenian authorities.

It is necessary to note that official Ankara not only did not renounce its three well-known preconditions for normalization of relations with Armenia (Armenia’s refusal to support international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Artsakh’s subordination to Azerbaijan and legal fixing of the existing interstate border), but added a fourth: Provision of the so-called “Zangezur Corridor”. Moreover, the statements of the representatives of the highest Turkish authorities on coordinating the process of normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations with Azerbaijan prove that it is not a question of Armenia-Turkey interstate talks, but of a new person being forced on Armenia by a hostile tandem.

This process of normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations is initially unhealthy and extremely dangerous. This is done in an international political and security situation around the Republic of Armenia, when the government of the defeated country lacks the ability to effectively defend the vital interests of the Armenians for objective and subjective reasons.

It is obvious that in the current conditions the process of normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations is fraught with numerous geopolitical, security, political, economic and spiritual-cultural challenges and will inevitably lead to irreversible dangerous consequences and loss of sovereignty.

The existing concerns deepen in the conditions of irresponsible political behavior and complete lack of accountability of the Armenian authorities. The election of a special envoy by Armenia suggests that the Armenian side is in fact participating in a pre-determined process, for which there is no need to choose a professional diplomat to ensure a pro-Armenian outcome.

In these conditions, the ARF Bureau demands from the RA authorities ․

1. Immediately reveal the guidelines of the Armenia-Turkey normalization process.
2. Reject the Turkish preconditions anonymously and completely.
3. To emphasize the political fact that the normalization of Armenia-Turkey interstate relations can not be connected with any third party.

We consider it necessary to emphasize that in the process of normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations, the 2010 decision of the RA Constitutional Court on the issue of the constitutionality of the Zurich Protocols should be taken into account. The decision of January 12. All the steps of the Republic of Armenia must be in line with the legal positions presented in this decision ներին the basic principles of the constitutional order enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia.

The normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations and the predetermination of the rights of our people is not the monopoly of any government. Armenian-Turkish relations can be normalized only with the consent of our people around the world, without violating Turkish preconditions and the rights of our generations.

Therefore, we must be ready for a pan-Armenian uprising if the Armenian authorities try to develop the Armenian-Turkish agenda imposed by the enemy with the current position of violating the rights of the Armenian people.

We can not but refer to the extremely dangerous, distorted and distorted positions of the RA Prime Minister on the Artsakh issue, which question the sovereignty, territorial integrity and legitimate right to international recognition of the Artsakh Republic.

We reaffirm that any written or oral agreement by the current Armenian authorities that violates the basic legal norms of the Artsakh Republic or calls into question the legitimacy of the claims of the Armenian people and the Republic of Armenia from Turkey is null and void from the beginning.

ARF Bureau
December 27, 2021

Some of Nikol Pashinyan’s statements on the topic of war and defeat have become really winged words. Winged words, which are not words of regret and forgiveness, awareness of one’s own mistakes, but crutches and manipulations.
“I am the number one responsible, but am I the number one culprit?”
“Whatever happens, let us agree that we will not feel defeated.”
“I’m proud, yes, we lost. The responsibility for that defeat is ours, but during that defeat, we kept the power to look you in the eye. We have no reason to look away today.”

These expressions could be treated as the torment of an unbalanced and confused person who wants to maintain the sympathy and trust of the citizen and, accordingly, the chair. But these expressions are also a message and give a lot of material in terms of understanding Pashinyan and his actions.

For example, the phrase “whatever happens, let’s agree that we will not feel defeated” is the formula by which to understand many of Nikol Pashinyan’s actions. Where he fails, he loses, he damages various structures and the society in general, he tries to present that failure as a victory.

We gave it to Shushi, he says, the Azerbaijanis were going to return to Shushi and it would not be ours, let us not feel defeated. We can not get the Azerbaijanis out of our land and oppose their plans, let’s give them what they want and we will not feel defeated. And in order not to feel defeated, he tries to inspire that we need the unblocking of those roads, we will gain a lot from it, and so on.

The Artsakh negotiation process failed and even the Lavrov plan became a dream for us. would not be in our favor. So we did not lose, defeat was inevitable, let’s open an era of peace and live in peace with the Azerbaijanis and Turks without feeling defeated.

By and large, he is trying to replace the disgraceful defeat in the war with a “victory” for peace, because the previous authorities failed to reach that agreement and establish a lasting peace, now he will succeed and he will become a puppet of peace in the region. He may hope that the war and its aftermath will be able to be forgotten and that economic interests will make people forgive him and be content with a humiliating peace. Although it is highly doubtful that it will be possible to establish lasting peace in our region and gain economic benefits from all this.

Serob Marutyan,

The first meeting of the Turkish and Armenian special representatives will be held in Moscow, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday, according to Vestnik Kavkaza.

“Special envoys for the normalization of relations with Armenia have been appointed. The first meeting will be held in Moscow. We hope that Armenia will act within the framework of international law,” RIA Novosti quoted the minister as saying.

According to Cavusoglu, flights between Istanbul and Yerevan will be restarted in the coming days.

Armenia has named Ruben Rubinyan, a deputy speaker of the parliament, as Yerevan’s special envoy to the process of normalizing relations with Turkey. Ankara has appointed career diplomat Serdar Kilic as its special representative for the dialogue.

Turkish agent Nikol Pashinyan now has the full support of Genocidal Turkey, Armenian realizing now 2018 Pashinyan revolution was a Turkish revolution against Artsakh and the Diaspora.

The Armenian-Turkish process will destroy the arguments of the Armenian diaspora in the United States. This was stated by the Turkish presidential press secretary during a meeting with Turkish citizens in Chicago, Anadolu Agency reported.

Ibrahim Kalin stated that the Armenian lobby in the US has made anti-Turkish sentiments part of his identity.

“A completely different process is being carried out in the Caucasus now, and the basis on which that diaspora has built all its arguments is on the verge of collapse. That is, the conflict between Armenia and Turkey, or the Armenian-Turkish conflict in the Caucasus is coming to an end. A new page in history has been opened with the liberation of Karabakh and the reintegration of that region into Azerbaijan,” Kalin said.

According to him, no one else has any other expectations in this regard, and Ankara and Yerevan are taking reciprocal steps to normalize their relations.

At the same time, the press secretary of the Turkish president noted that Armenia will benefit the most from this settlement.

“The normalization of relations with Turkey will be a great contribution for Armenia, both politically and economically, as a landlocked, economically weak country—and under the tutelage of Russia,” Ibrahim Kalin said.