Lilit Galstyan, member of the ARF Bureau, member of the National Assembly “Hayastan” faction, writes:

“Today, another disgusting lie was told once again. At the press conference, Pashinyan announced that the director of the Genocide Museum-Institute, E. Gzoyan, was fired by J. D. Van for dedicating the book “The Artsakh Question” and disrupting the peace process. A LIE and a disgusting LIE…

The book dedicated to Vance has the following title: “Azerbaijani aggression against Armenians in Transcaucasia in 1905-1921 according to American press/sources”.

First, let me remind you that the “Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute” is a foundation, and the appointment and dismissal of the director is carried out by the board of trustees.

Nevertheless, Pashinan publicly admitted that Gzoyan was fired on his orders. And Minister Andreasyan devoted himself to the cause and the idea.

In an awkward situation, the KGMS minister had to give up the initial hypothesis that he put into circulation that the removal of the director was related to the construction of the memorial complex, but the facts speak of something else.

A few days ago, Hranush Kharatyan, a member of the board of trustees, in his post and in an interview with “Aravot” (March 11) confirmed that “According to their official information, the reason is construction, it is related to the renovation of the memorial complex.” We are talking about the meeting of the board of trustees, in which Minister Andreasyan participated.

Now Zh. Andreasyan circulates on another basis. “It’s about governance,” he declares from the top of the bastion of democracy, continuing his sophistic and revealing speech. or “There was a situation that shouldn’t have happened and it found its conclusion”, then he continues: “I don’t need to present an explanation to anyone”.

The name of that situation is “foreign policy and protocol,” Pashinyan reveals.

Which foreign policy? the one approved by the government’s 2021-2026 program, where Artsakh is mentioned 16 times, or the foreign policy chapter, where the recognition and prevention of the Genocide is a foreign policy priority? Why do you continue to deceive the public?

Which protocol? And what protocol did you provide to the Museum? Are you aware that the relevant US authorities have checked and approved their protocol and procedure on the spot?

In that case, why wasn’t the actual culprit, the person in charge of the “protocol” of the CP, dismissed from his job?

And do you know that the given book was given to several dozen guests and it was done very well, because the revision of history and identity to which the regime and its slavish henchmen are engaged has one name: NATIONAL DENIAL.

And how good it is that the five members of the Board of Trustees of the Museum-Institute, the French-Armenian Raimon Gevorgyan, the American-Armenian Stepan Asturyan, Hranush Kharatyan and Harutyun Marutyan, and AGBU Armenia’s head Yaghubyan, did not have their scientific and national dignity undermined.

The problem is not really the book and its title, nor the dismissal of one official.

You can humiliate yourself as much as you can, this is your choice, your vision of a small person and your will.

You can become a merchant of the Turkish dream, but no one has allowed you to auction our identity, our past and our future…”

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