Verelq: Genocide Museum director’s press release on secret negotiations with Azerbaijan

“Hraparak” newspaper writes:

“The acting director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, former diplomat Hrachya Tashchyan, who has expressed his willingness to advance the “line” of Nikol Pashinyan, it turns out that while working as an assistant in Pashinyan’s staff, he participated in secret negotiations with the Azerbaijani side in 2018-2019.

Let’s remind that on July 9, 2020, he was appointed the head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Prime Minister’s Office for a period of 3 years, and 1.5 years later, in 2021. in December, Pashinyan released him when there were leaks about those negotiations. In particular, he was in correspondence with Hikmet Hajiyev, head of the foreign policy department of the Azerbaijani President’s office.

They say that he served his predecessors with the same willingness. before being appointed as Pashinyan’s assistant, he held positions in the RA Foreign Ministry: head of the NATO department, ambassador of the RA Embassy in the USA, head of the Department of External Relations of the RA Government Staff. Tashchyan has the diplomatic rank of RA envoy and plenipotentiary minister.

VERELQ reminds that US Vice President Vance visited the Tsitsernaberd Memorial with his wife on February 10, and made a note in the memorial book of honored guests of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. Vance was escorted to the memorial Edita Gzoyan, he also presented a book about the Artsakh problem to Vance. A month later, Edita Gzoyan submitted an application for release, Nikol Pashinyan stated that this happened on his instructions, because “there is no Karabakh movement, what does it mean to present a book on the subject of the Artsakh issue to a foreign guest?”

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