Conversation: with Edgar Ghazaryan, Ex. Governor of Vayots-Dzor, how Pashinyan single-handedly destroyed Artsakh detail in Video.
By Wally Sarkeesian
Conversation: with Edgar Ghazaryan, how Pashinyan single-handedly destroyed Artsakh Ex. Governor of Vayots-Dzor Marz (Province) Ex. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia in the Republic of Poland Ex. Head of Office of the Constitutional Court. Education 1993-1998, Yerevan State Economics Institute, Department of Management 1998-2001, Yerevan State Economics Institute, post-graduate course 2006-2007, Council of Europe Schools of Political Studies 2009-2010, Moscow School of Political Studies,
On FacebookEvery Crime Pashinyan committed even running over a pregnant woman and killing her baby go scots free.
The father of the pregnant woman Pashinyan’s convoy ran over and left to die last year says the courts are covering up the case. He says most of the witnesses are cops who were not at the scene, while actual eyewitnesses are not being called to testify.
Yesterday, NA Speaker Alen Simonyan assured that those responsible for the death of 28-year-old Sona Mnatsakanyan, who died as a result of being hit by Police Major Aram Navasardyan at the intersection of Paronyan-Leo streets on April 26, 2022, will be held accountable. Meanwhile, Sona’s father has concerns that attempts are being made to acquit the accused.
“90 percent of the witnesses in Sona’s death case were police officers, people who had nothing to do with the specific case, relatives of the accused, relatives of the accused, police officers who were standing one or three intersections away from the incident. How their testimony should have helped the case, they could have called the woman walking in front of my daughter, who was one meter away, who managed to run past, they could have called the residents living in that area, who were very angry, as witnesses. According to the regulatory inspector, he warned the driver that if he went back, the people were so angry that they might retaliate. I am concerned because during the last interrogation they invited an expert who gave a conclusion on the driver’s guilt, we got the impression that he was afraid to answer questions about his own written testimony, we had the impression that there was a fear of losing his job. Not to mention that it is not excluded that the court decides to appoint an expert examination for a double and groundless reason, at the request of the defense side, and the purpose of the double examination is one thing: to hide the driver’s guilt. If the court approves their petition and re-examination is appointed, I have nothing to lose, my wife was fired after the incident, my desire to work is not great, there is nothing to keep me here either, I will do everything, until the ECHR, so that the final result is fair. Finally, do they have to pull something or not, or do they seem to be the most capable, suspicious of the behavior of the staff accompanying the Prime Minister? They continue to drive fast cars in the same way, drive over pedestrians, who gave them that right? When the prime minister was elected or re-elected, he made other promises. I want to remind you, maybe that person will understand that he came to power through the people, is he protecting the interests of that people or is his policeman important? The policeman is ours, now I understand that expression in a different way, he is ours, he does not protect the interests of the people, but theirs,” said Sona’s father, Mnatsakan Mnatsakanyan. Arpine SIMONYAN
The statement made by the political and civic actors of the Republic of Artsakh reads as follows:
“A free people cannot renounce their sovereign rights and submit to the rule of an alien state, especially one ruled for many years by an authoritarian, corrupt, and racist regime, intoxicated by its impunity.
Our collective decision to leave our Homeland – the Republic of Artsakh (the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic), our homes, and our Armenian churches, leaving behind the relics of Saint John the Baptist (Surb Hovhannes Mkrtich) and the graves of our ancestors, which we have protected for centuries, is the proof to the whole world that freedom is the highest value for the people of Artsakh. We have made this forced decision amidst ongoing genocidal actions and looming serious existential threats.
We made this decision because those who call themselves champions and defenders of freedom and human rights decided to deny us our right to live with dignity in our homeland and our right to self-determination, thus aiming to achieve an imaginary peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan and for the sake of their own geopolitical interests.
We left because it was the only way to guarantee our safety and preserve our human and national dignity and our gene pool, expose the big lie, on which the political idea of unilateral and forceful resolution of the conflict was based, by forcing us and our children to accept citizenship and swear allegiance to the regime that hates us.
For more than three decades, we have defended with all our might our children’s right to peace and free development. We opposed the political deals that were offered to us at the expense of our sovereign right to live in our Homeland, won at the cost of lives and enormous sacrifices of many generations during the long centuries of struggle to preserve our national dignity and identity. And this struggle is not over. We are confident that we will regain our Motherland with the power of truth and justice.
For those who think that the world can be ruled by lies and brute force, we repeat the following:
The Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR) was proclaimed on September 2, 1991, by the legitimate authorities of the Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Region (NKAO) and the Shahumyan Region of the Azerbaijani Soviet Social Republic, when the authorities of the latter announced their decision to secede from the USSR. The political Declaration on proclamation of the NKR was based on the legal norm of the Soviet law in force at that time and the will of the Artsakh people, expressed in a national referendum.
Our right to self-determination was recognized even by the authorities of Soviet Russia and Azerbaijan in 1920, and became the basis for creation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region in 1923, was enshrined in the constitution of the USSR, the constitution of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic and its law “On NKAO”, and was preserved in the Law “Concerning the procedure of secession of a Soviet Republic from the USSR” of April 3, 1990, and is also based on the UN Charter and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966.
The referendum of December 10, 1991, confirmed that the absolute majority of voters supported the decision to declare the independence of our Republic. The legitimate parliament, elected according to democratic standards and in the conditions of a genocidal siege and armed aggression, adopted on January 6, 1992 the Declaration of Independence of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, Artsakh. Thousands of our compatriots paid for this choice with their lives.
In 1992, all CSCE/OSCE member states recognized the right of elected representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh to participate in the OSCE international conference mandated to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. In a referendum in 2006, our people approved the Constitution of the Republic, which defined the procedure for electing legitimate representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh and their powers; in 2017, again in a referendum, the people approved a new Constitution. This Constitution was and remains the only fundamental document by which the citizens of our Republic are guided and obeyed of their own free will.
Accordingly, we, the citizens of the Republic of Artsakh, in an effort to defend our legal rights and the right to preserve the subjecthood of our Republic, affirm that the self-determined Nagorno-Karabakh did not take any part in the formation of the constitution and authorities of the self-proclaimed Republic of Azerbaijan, and, on the contrary, declared its independence. However, the newly formed Azerbaijan did not hide its baseless claims to Nagorno-Karabakh.
It was in such conditions that the international community recorded the fact that there were disagreements over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, recognizing the disputed nature of this territory. Armenia and Azerbaijan then became participating countries of the CSCE/OSCE on the condition that they recognized the existence of disagreements over the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh and agreed that the future status of Nagorno-Karabakh would be determined at a peace conference under the auspices of the CSCE/OSCE. Both states have assumed an international obligation to resolve the issue exclusively by peaceful means.
However, once it became an CSCE/OSCE participating state, Azerbaijan immediately violated its international obligation to resolve disputes peacefully. Official Baku illegally used force against the NKR as a disputed territory in order to prevent holding an international conference to determine the status of Nagorno-Karabakh. In those conditions, the people of Nagorno-Karabakh exercised their right to self-defense. The armed aggression of Azerbaijan in 1992-1994 resulted in its defeat with significant territorial losses. It is important to emphasize that the Line of Contact between the NKR and Azerbaijan was internationally recognized.
However, during the three decades of the conflict, not a single statesman, politician or international legal authority answered a simple question: why Azerbaijan and other states that have legally recognized the obligation to follow the rule of law as a fundamental principle of their statehood, can disregard the obligation to respect the right of self-determination of Nagorno-Karabakh and the principle of non-use of force, both arising from that fundamental principle?
This circumstance allowed Azerbaijan to retain in its policy arsenal the strategy of annexation Nagorno-Karabakh through the forced expulsion of its indigenous people. Azerbaijan’s aggressive policy has yet to receive due international condemnation. International actors, contrary to their international obligations to bear responsibility for protecting the population from genocide (Responsibility to Protect), unfortunately, did not pay due attention to the warnings contained in the Statement of the Parliament of Artsakh of July 27, 2023 about the most serious existential threats facing the population of Artsakh, did not prevent the criminal actions of Azerbaijan, which committed another military aggression against the NKR in September 2023 and completely expelled the indigenous Armenian population of Artsakh from their historical Homeland.
It should be recalled that after conclusion of truce on November 9, 2020, the President of Azerbaijan stated that the Nagorno-Karabakh problem no longer exists, and everyone must come to terms with the results of the Second Karabakh War. In an effort to change the essence of the conflict, Azerbaijan has introduced into its diplomatic vocabulary a false narrative of “Armenia’s occupation of Azerbaijani lands,” through which it attempts to mute legitimate concerns about its aggressive genocidal policy.
We do not intend to compromise our principles, beliefs and our rights in relation to our own Motherland, neither in the face of force, nor under the threat of destruction, neither in exile, nor under any other political circumstances.
The whole civilized world faces a choice today: either to restore the international order in Nagorno-Karabakh, based on respect for the right to self-determination and other rights and freedoms of peoples and human rights, or to agree that blockade, armed aggression, genocide and occupation are legitimate ways to resolve conflicts.
Today, leaders of many states speak about the need for the return of Armenians to Nagorno-Karabakh. However, we believe that for the peaceful, safe and dignified return and life of our people in their homeland the following indisputable conditions are required:
First, we rule out the return of citizens of the Republic of Artsakh to the jurisdiction of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani armed forces, police and administration must be completely withdrawn from the territory of the Republic of Artsakh, including the Shahumyan region, where too Azerbaijan bears full responsibility for the ethnic cleansing in 1992.
Second, multinational international UN peacekeeping forces should be deployed along the entire border of the Republic of Artsakh, and a demilitarized zone should be created.
Third, the internationally recognized Lachine Corridor should be completely transferred to UN control and management.
Fourth, the territory of the Republic of Artsakh should be handed over to the UN control to ensure the conditions for the return of all refugees, formation of democratic and legal institutions and the restoration of the economy. All refugees must have equal status, equal rights and be subject to the common rules of the transitional period until a referendum is held to confirm the final political status of Nagorno-Karabakh, the result of which will be legally recognized by all states.
Fifth, the possibility of criminal prosecution by Azerbaijan of citizens of the Republic of Artsakh on any charges for the entire period of the conflict should be completely excluded. All arrested and already convicted Armenians in Azerbaijan must be released immediately. We are ready to recognize the competence of an international tribunal to investigate every war crime for which our citizens are accused, provided that in a similar way this tribunal will also address all war crimes committed by citizens of Azerbaijan and its mercenaries.
We are ready to do our best to contribute to achieving a peaceful resolution to the conflict, which will be based on the full respect for the right to self-determination and other internationally recognized human rights and freedoms of peoples.”
The addressees of the appeal are: the UN Secretary-General, the UN Security Council, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, the Council of Europe (Secretary-General, President of the Parliamentary Assembly, President of the Committee of Ministers), the President of the European Council, the President of the European Parliament, the Secretary-General of the CIS, the Secretary-General of the CSTO, and the Secretary-General of NATO.
The invitation remains available for additional signatures. Entities interested in joining are encouraged to send a formal request via email to the following address: Artsakh.December10@gmail.com.
Aliyev calls a snap election, the dictator’s Favorite tool, don’t give the opposition time to campaign.
Authoritarian leaders often favor hasty elections. Pashinyan, a dictator, called for snap elections twice and emerged victorious.
Azerbaijan is set to hold an early presidential election on February 7, 2024, as announced by Azertag. President Ilham Aliyev has officially signed the corresponding decree.
PASADENA: The 2024 Tournament of Roses Float Entry by the American Armenian Rose Float Association is unveiled.
PASADENA: In the upcoming 135th Tournament of Roses, the American Armenian Rose Float Association, Inc. is set to present the captivating entry “Armenian Melodies.” This float, a testament to the strength embodied by Armenian matriarchs throughout history, will showcase dynamic figures of Armenian mothers and daughters adorned in vibrant, traditional attire. Surrounding them will be significant symbols representing Armenian heritage and culture, perfectly aligning with the theme of the 135th Tournament of Roses, “Celebrating a World of Music.” The presentation, scheduled for January 1, 2024, at 8:00 a.m., will spotlight various musical instruments indigenous to Armenia.
Marking its sixth consecutive year participating in the Tournament of Roses, AARFA’s “Armenian Melodies” intricately captures the heroism of Armenian mothers as symbols of determination, resilience, and fortitude across centuries of upheaval. Through their unwavering support, these mothers serve as inspirations for their families and communities to persevere, even in the face of turbulent times.
The float’s design prominently features Armenian birds, including the crane, chukar, and little ringed plover, all native to the Armenian Highlands. These avian symbols are nestled around the mother and daughter figures, enriching the tableau with depth and character. Additionally, “Armenian Melodies” pays homage to Armenian musical traditions, with traditional wind instruments like the duduk, shvi, blul, and parkapzuk adorning the float. Percussion instruments such as the dhol and nagara complete the floral orchestra, contributing to the lively tapestry of the float.
Since the 2018 Turkish Revolution led By Nikol Pashinyan Armenia become a drug-epidemic country
When Italian police seized $880 million worth of “extremely pure” cocaine headed to Armenia, packed in containers carrying bananas from Ecuador. Report 301
The 301 team decided to investigate the recent drug epidemic in Armenia. What we found was in recent years, there has been a significant increase in cases of illegal drug trafficking and drug use among teenagers, minors, and women.
The platforms used for drug distribution have become more diverse, with Telegram being one prominent platform. Drug distribution through Telegram has expanded on a large scale, particularly in schools and universities, through advertisements posted on Telegram channels related to drugs. The problem of drug addiction can be particularly severe in the post-war period, as young people and teenagers turn to drugs and alcohol to cope with the fears and anxieties resulting from the war. This has led to a rise in drug spread.
The “False Prophet” from Ijevan systematically promotes the narrative of Economic Miracle And Poverty In Armenia 24.8%
The “False Prophet” from Ijevan systematically promotes the narrative that his wise economic policies managed to create unprecedented prosperity in Armenia since 2018, the year “The Velvet Revolution” toppled “The Old Corrupt Guard” and Nikol Pashinoglu walked triumphantly to The Office of The Prime Minister of Armenia.
Of course, Armenia today is not the “Land of Honey and Milk”, and the mighty green dollar does not grow on trees lining up the main streets of Yerevan. Prosperity is limited strictly to the ruling elite, or the “New Guard,” i.e., the long list of oligarchs who plundered the economy under the watchful eyes of PM Pashinoglu, who scratched their backs and, in return, the oligarchs diverted millions of dollars to the multiple charities controlled by Anna Hakobyan, and with some creative accounting the illicit fortune of Pashinyan/Hakobyan ended up in offshore accounts, and not much can be traced back to the “First Family of Armenia”.
Today (Nov. 27, 2023), very gloomy figures about the widespread poverty in Armenia were released. A close scrutiny of the numbers sends chills down your spine once you realize the dire circumstances affecting 1 out of 4 Armenians living in Armenia. The “official” poverty rate in Armenia is 24.8% (2022), based on figures released by Armenia’s National Statistical Committee, an institution that relied on World Bank methodology to tabulate the final figures.
Of course, not all international institutions studying poverty globally agree with the creative accounting used by Armenia’s National Statistical Committee. World Food Programme (WFP) believes that the poverty rate is 28%, and others claim that almost one-third of Armenia’s population has been victimized by poverty.
Unfortunately, poverty is not the only scourge affecting the Armenian society under Pashinoglu’s rule.
Source: Noubar Serabian
Azeri Paper Attacks Sassounian for Saying that Azerbaijan Wastes Billions on Lobbying
By Harut Sassounian,
Last week, I was asked by Alpha News TV to comment on the U.S. Senate’s decision, by a unanimous vote of 100 to 0, to suspend for two years Pres. Joe Biden’s authority to waive Section 907 of the United States Freedom Support Act, which prohibits providing assistance to Azerbaijan. Should the House of Representatives also approve this bill, it would then go to the President for his signature which would make it a law. Since 1992, all U.S. presidents, including Pres. Biden in the last two years, have waived Section 907, thus providing tens of millions of dollars of aid to Azerbaijan.
The Senate’s decision angered Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry which described it as a blow to Armenia-Azerbaijan relations and cancelled its participation in the planned Washington talks between the foreign ministers of the two countries on Nov. 20.
During my interview with Alpha News, I stated that not a single U.S. Senator objected to the anti-Azerbaijan bill, despite Azerbaijan hiring multiple large lobbying firms to defend its interests in Washington. This means that Azerbaijan has wasted tens of millions of dollars in the last two decades paying for these useless lobbying firms. I would like to add that the person directly responsible for overseeing the work of these lobbying firms is Azerbaijan’s Ambassador to Washington, Khazar Ibrahim. Therefore, any government that becomes aware of the waste of such large amounts of money would immediately fire its Ambassador. If Pres. Aliyev does not dismiss Amb. Ibrahim, then he himself would be just as responsible for the waste of millions of dollars on worthless lobbying firms which have not been able to convince a single Senator out of 100 to vote in favor of Azerbaijan’s interests.
Within days of my interview with Alpha News, Azerbaijan’s first English language newspaper, AzerNews, published a lengthy article titled, “Bribing congressmen, Armenian lobby poses threat to future of Yerevan,” attacking me personally for saying that Azerbaijan has wasted millions of dollars on lobbying. This is what shameless people do when they accuse others of doing things they are guilty of.
The whole world knows about Azerbaijan’s notorious Caviar Diplomacy and Azerbaijani Laundromat, bribing politicians throughout Europe with billions of dollars to cast votes in favor of Azerbaijan in order to whitewash Azerbaijan’s severe human rights violations and its fraudulent presidential elections.
Shamelessly, AzerNews falsely states that “Armenia’s lobby organizations abroad, pour millions or perhaps billions into the pockets of congressmen, of course, baseless and biased opinions against Azerbaijan will be voiced from the West.”
There are several grave errors in the above sentence. First of all, the Armenian government has not hired a single U.S. lobbying firm simply because it does not have the huge amount of petrodollars that Azerbaijan has which it wastes on lobbying firms in Washington, instead of taking care of its poor people at home. Secondly, Armenian-American organizations do not have millions, let alone billions of dollars to “pour into the pockets of congressmen.” Armenian-Americans do not need to bribe anyone. When your cause is just, you do not need to pay bribes to convince anyone of the truth. Only when you commit massive crimes, as Azerbaijan and Turkey repeatedly do, you need to spend millions and billions of dollars to cover up your crimes.
AzerNews went on to incriminate Azerbaijan, saying that Baku “is not only interested in participating in this auction of finding partnerships that Armenia is lavishly doing now.” Even though the sentence is not grammatically correct, the Azeri writer seems to admit that Azerbaijan is eager to bribe foreign officials. This is a useless statement since Azerbaijan has been bribing foreign officials for years.
Azerbaijan should be the last country in the world to cast aspersions on Armenia or any other country, since Baku is led by a dictator who jails journalists and human rights activists, and his soldiers commit the ugliest war crimes, such as rapes and beheadings. Azerbaijan invaded Artsakh and committed genocide against its Armenian population. Furthermore, Ramil Safarov, an Azeri soldier, during a NATO-sponsored training seminar in Hungary, chopped the head of a sleeping Armenian soldier with an axe. After Pres. Aliyev bribed the Hungarian government to release him from prison, he pardoned him and recognized him as a national hero.
I commend AzerNews for tracking all the way from Baku my interview in Glendale, California, and writing a baseless and false response. The writer of the article, Elnur Enveroglu, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of AzerNews, went to great lengths to find not only my TV interview, but also to translate it from Armenian into English.
The Catholicos of All Armenians receives the President of the Republic of Iraq
On November 22, H.E. Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all Armenians received the President of the Republic of Iraq Abd Al Latif Jamal Rashid, on an official visit to Armenia, at the Holy See of Etchmiadzin.
Welcoming the visit of the delegation led by the Iraqi President to the spiritual center of all Armenians, His Holiness expressed confidence that the latter’s visit to Armenia will contribute to the rapprochement of relations between the two peoples and the strengthening of interstate ties. Speaking about the Armenian community in Iraq, the Catholicos of All Armenians noted that it makes an important contribution to deepening Armenian-Iraqi relations. In this regard, His Holiness expressed his gratitude to the Iraqi authorities for their attention to the community and its national spiritual life.
During the meeting, the Armenian Patriarch also discussed the military and genocidal actions unleashed by Azerbaijan against Artsakh, as a result of which Artsakh Armenians were forcibly expelled, and presented the security and humanitarian challenges that the country faces.
In turn, Iraqi President Abd Al Latif Jamal Rashid informed that his delegation’s visit to Armenia aims to strengthen and further develop cooperation between the two countries in various fields. The President discussed the current situation in Iraq and the measures taken by the authorities to overcome the existing challenges. On this occasion, the Iraqi president underlined with satisfaction that the Armenian community of Iraq also plays an important role in the development of the country’s progress.
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