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Prosperous Armenia Party leader: Our priority issue is international recognition of Artsakh independence

News.am, Armenia
Sept 19 2020
Prosperous Armenia Party leader: Our priority issue is international recognition of Karabakh independence
               Prosperous Armenia Party leader: Our priority issue is international recognition of Karabakh independence
15:49, 19.09.2020

If we do not get out of this situation, we are really in the abyss. Gagik Tsarukyan—chairman of the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), MP, and business tycoon—stated this in Ararat Province—and referring to the situation in the country.

"People taking care of 120,000 families did not go to work abroad, those who work for a daily wage do not work, today the turnover has decreased. The state must subsidize and repay the loans of the people for a year. Today, the state has increased its national debt by 1 billion 400 million, has neither created jobs nor has granted forgiveness to the [loan] interests of the people. The state can petition to the World Bank, bring 1 billion [dollars], and distribute it to the people; they should give at least $2,000 to each family so people can spend their winter. If the condition of my people is not good, the condition of my children will not be good either," said Tsarukyan. He added that the problems accumulated in Armenia should be resolved, as the country is not a testing ground.

Tsarukyan touched also upon the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) conflict, noting that the issue of international recognition of the Artsakh Republic should be raised in the negotiations. "You do not know exactly what was agreed on the Artsakh issue, what was discussed, saying 'We are consulting, we are drinking coffee.' C'mon! Our priority is the issue of international recognition of Karabakh's independence. The people of Karabakh have settled this issue, Karabakh has been independent for 30 years, [and] the issue of [its] international recognition remains," Gagik Tsarukyan said.




Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS