What important documents should Nikol Pashinyan declassify?

At the NA-Government question-and-answer session on March 25 and at the briefing with journalists after the Government session on March 26, Nikol Pashinyan once again questioned whether the people of Artsakh would fight or not, called the military-political elite of Artsakh and the generals fugitives and traitors.

First, on March 25, Pashinyan recalled from the podium of the National Assembly how on one occasion, while talking about the generals in the parliament, he called them cowardly traitors.

“Yes, cowardly traitors and fugitive elites should be recognized in this history as those who held the people of Armenia and Karabakh hostage.” continued the one who is satisfied in his political life escapes and had fears, it is also about professional political responsibility to jump is about

It should be noted that on April 12, 2023, Nikol Pashinyan made accusations against the generals during the Government-National Assembly question-and-answer session, and in particular the former commander of the Armed Forces, General To Mikael Arzumanyan: accusing him of “treason” and being a “regular agent”, thereby violating the presumption of innocence.

Mikael Arzumanyan accused with two episodes of war: the loss of the “Arega” height and giving the order to retreat and not properly organizing the defense of Shushi. In this case, Nikol Pashinyan meant the episode related to the “Arega” hill, and he probably watched the report on Public TV.

The problem is that at the moment, according to the information we have received, during the closed trial, the accusation related to Arega height has completely “collapsed”, and perhaps the accusation of the current authorities regarding Shushi should be approached with reservations, after all, one person cannot be guilty and responsible for losing Shushi.

This is especially when we have not once written the accusation of Mikayel Arzumanyan, so to speak, it ends in 2020. on November 7. While after that, how? we wrote At that time, Nikol Pashinyan instructed Onik Gasparyan, the head of the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, to start operations to take back Shush, were there necessary resources and conditions for this?

By the way, on one occasion we asked a questionIn what capacity did Pashinyan give the order to retake Shush with a counterattack, or why did he not make the “concession” to settle Shush with Azerbaijanis under Armenian control?

In 2024, again from the podium of the National Assembly to the generals and the military-political leadership of Artsakh was “cowardly” and “desertive”. name

The question is that if the military and political leaders of Artsakh at different times had escaped, they would not be in Baku prison today, especially when they did not hold any position at that moment, and when the blockade was not total, they could have left Artsakh, but they did not want to leave the people of Artsakh alone. There may have been miscalculations, but that’s not what we’re talking about now. On the other hand, Kamo Vardanyan, who was the commander of the Armed Forces in 2023, was admitted to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia.

Moreover, like Nikol Pashinyan in the parliament last year had announced.

“Half of the leadership of our armed forces today is from Karabakh, at the highest level, our armed forces today, do you understand what I’m saying, our armed forces are led by Karabakh people, if we don’t trust and don’t like the people of Karabakh, how did we get those people to be appointed to those places? If we betrayed, they tell us: you betrayed, you did this, you did that, I have never heard any claim that these people of Karabagh origin entered into any treacherous deal. How are those people working with us, if we are traitors, how are they… They know everything, don’t they? They know everything from the inside, don’t they? How do these people work with us? Who will answer this question? I won’t name names, but I say there is no exaggeration, the entire top of our military pyramid is occupied by Karabakh people at the most key points.”

Are the Karabakh generals, among whom there are those who were related to the 44-day war in their official capacity and after that received a position in the General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, considered “cowardly traitors” or “deserters”? And don’t they really consider Pashinyan a “traitor” who “knows everything from the inside”?

By the way, in this context, let’s return to Mikael Arzumanyan, who was targeted by Pashinyan after the 2020 war, and remind us that after the 2018 power change, taking advantage of his “annoyance” from Bako Sahakyan, he was entrusted with various positions. Years ago we have touched on During the reign of Nikol Pashinyan, Mikael Arzumanyan’s personnel changes.

What’s at the press conference today? to say Nikol Pashinyan, in particular, in connection with the Azerbaijani military aggression in Artsakh on September 19-20, 2023 and whether the people of Artsakh should fight or not.

“After the events of 2023, there was a meeting of the RA Security Council, where the results of the combat operations that took place were analyzed. I, not being able to reveal much, want to record that the claims about fighting and so on are, to put it mildly, untrue, because according to the data of our intelligence and not only intelligence, the lion’s share of the available weapons and ammunition, it could be 80 percent, it could be … percent, remained untouched. Before that, we had created an opportunity for a political process to take place, and some representatives of the ruling circle of Karabakh not only prevented, but also implemented a change of power in Karabakh, they congratulated each other in the RA NA. And from those congratulations just a week later, the events that happened happened.

And those myths: they fought to the end, etc., by the way, if necessary, we will declassify those data. I am sure, this dough will carry a lot of water, we will wait for it to carry well, to publish the documents of the Nagorno Karabakh negotiation process at the right moment, it is a lie, nothing like that happened, they ran away, they looted“, he stated.

This raises several questions. First, what intelligence data are we talking about, when was it obtained, because before the September aggression in Artsakh in 2023, Farhad Mamedov, a political scientist close to Aliyev from Baku, who came to Armenia, was still in the summer of 2023. warned about the action plan and what they will start with: “Azerbaijan intends to achieve the complete disarmament of the Armenians living in Karabakh”, moreover, they did not forget about point 4 of the November 9, 2020 statement signed by Nikol Pashinyan.

Secondly, Aliyev stated that as a result of the operations of September 2023, they destroyed or strategically took 1 billion dollars worth of weapons and ammunition. Was there a proposal from Armenia to transfer them to Armenia on time, and did they not agree in Artsakh? Isn’t it time for Nikol Pashinyan to make public the recording of his conversations with the military-political leadership of Artsakh on this topic, if something like this happened, the former commander of the Defense Forces Kamo Vardanyan can also do it.

Besides this, one question should be asked with clear facts and disclosures պատասխան՝ They were supposed to support the Defense Ministry during the last operations with the plan for the use of armed forces, and it was not carried out?

And before that, let’s remind that as a result of the 44-day war of 2020, Azerbaijan destroyed or took as a strategic weapon 5 billion dollars of Armenian weapons, there were also cases of not removing them from the warehouses, can Nikol Pashinyan, who at that time illegitimately assumed the status of supreme commander, say why this happened? Does he have a favorable answer, facts, or are we dealing with a similar episode of war when in April 2025, in response to our inquiry, the RA Investigative Committee was avoided to say directly that Pashinyan is lying.

We are talking about the episode that Pashinyan once announced that during the 44-day “the squad or unit went and tried to replenish the depleted weapons and ammunition, and a specific person refused to give up a weapon, and they had to break open the doors of the ammunition store to arm themselves, and found that store fully stocked with all necessary arms and ammunition.’

And in the context of the military desertion accusation, Nikol Pashinyan would do well to provide clear facts about the episodes of his son’s volunteering during the 44-day period, which are related to the retreat from Alpasha Hill and Tiran Khachatryan. to work back, why not clearly say that, for example, since when or from what day was Ashot Pashinyan in Jrakan, how long did he stay there and participate in combat operations, when did he leave, the same applies to being in Kubatli? Ministry of Defense this information is confidential keep

Will Nikol Pashinyan provide public evidence in response to these questions? By the way, it wouldn’t be bad if the 44-day report was published, the recordings of the speeches and question-and-answer sessions of the military leadership at the famous sessions of the Security Council during the 2020 war, why not also the political leadership, then we would understand who escaped, who is responsible for the defeat in the war, which general is a “traitor”, etc. Why doesn’t Pashinyan do this, if the military leadership and generals are the main responsible?

As for leaving the people of Artsakh hostage, it is enough to remember Pashinyan’s views on the status of Artsakh revolution or evolution, a series of pre-war statements, and the fact that he was afraid to go to the surrender of the territories provided for in the negotiation package, lest they be called a traitor. But this aside. Why was Pashinyan’s government in Artsakh after the 44-day war? implements financing, advertising the “100 Houses in Artsakh” project, the aim of which was to provide housing to Artsakh citizens who were displaced and lost their homes as a result of the war.

The apartments were built near the Dahrav village of Askeran, 16 km from Stepanakert, in the Empty Plain. Personally, we wrote many times about the security risks of this, but at that time Nikol Pashinyan was not interested in what we were warning about.

Of course, Pashinyan can appreciate this as an attempt to keep the people of Artsakh in Artsakh, but the previous authorities did the same thing, didn’t they, which, however, he describes as “holding hostages”, didn’t he do the same when it even followed the 44-day war?

In other words, we are also dealing with a dangerous deception here. This topic can be continued with many other facts, but let’s limit ourselves to this.

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