“We are living in very difficult and amazing times, when you could not imagine in your most fantastic dream that one day they will not allow you to talk about Artsakh, they will try to close the issue of Artsakh in every possible way. right now we have a situation where courage is required to speak about Artsakh.” 168 Artsakh public figure Nare Simonyan raised his concerns about Artsakh during the TV program “Zara has a question”.

He regretfully noted that not only the enemies outside our borders, but also the authorities of the Republic of Armenia are interested in closing the Artsakh issue.

“They seem to have become the primary beneficiary of closing the Artsakh issue with the Aliyev regime,” he added.

While presenting his vision of the return to Artsakh, Nare Simonyan emphasized: “At this stage, we understand that we cannot return to Artsakh in 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, but it is very important to talk about that right, to raise the voice that about 150,000 Artsakh citizens have very important basic rights that are violated. it is the rights to live and create in their homeland, it is also the right to self-determination, which is less talked about, but should be talked about.

On different international platforms, we should talk about the right of return, talk about our violated rights and let the international community or international actors offer options, because when you don’t talk about your problem, everyone can consider that problem closed.”

To the observation that the raising of these just concerns is often rebuked by the authorities, for example, when Pashinyan considers it harmful to talk about ethnic cleansing in Artsakh, or the famous episode of the subway, as well as when the authorities avoid the word “Artsakh”, our interlocutor responded that all this is the result of both internal political and external coercion.

“In the domestic political field, the authorities of the day are trying to find internal enemies and consolidate their electorate against those enemies, those enemies are the primary bearers of national values ​​and national identity: Artsakh, the Armenian Apostolic Church… Nikol Pashinyan uses this technology and, on the one hand, by inventing internal enemies, softens the perception of the external enemy, which is fatal and threatens us every day from the outside, and on the other hand, he mobilizes his electorate before the elections against the internal enemy.

The fact that he considers the people of Artsakh as enemies, calling them brothers and sisters, has been seen many times, and, yes, also in the episode of the subway, when the daughter of the hero of Artsakh showed in a very detailed, very appropriate and competent way that the people of Artsakh did not run away, the people of Artsakh fought, we saw that the theses that were previously circulated on the scale of fakes, sometimes also of his henchmen, Papoyan, Alensimonyan and others, Pashinyan’s mouth said: “Billions of taxes, you lived at the expense of our taxes, you left and ran away” etc., said the public figure from Artsakh.

To the clarification of where the peace agendas will take us, if the issues related to Artsakh are kept quiet, Nare Simonyan replied that by keeping these matters quiet, this is a very clear and clear way not to peace, but to bring new problems for us.

“Not talking about Artsakh, we are opening the way to Syunik, the Syunik corridor, Tavush, the so-called “return” of Azerbaijanis, Yerevan, etc. In other words, by renouncing our rights, we also give the enemy the opportunity to present new demands.

It is clear that this is not the way to peace. mere “peace” was chosen as a brand in the internal political struggle, but on the other hand, it is absurd that a government that has brought the most wars and the most defeats throughout history is talking about peace.

And already the authorities do not even dare to threaten their citizens with war. if we are not elected, there will be a war, even as if they say a month for the war. What does this mean, an agreement with the enemy, what are you hiding?

I am sure that with the way that the authorities of the day are leading us, we will not have peace, but will even more endanger the existence of the Republic of Armenia.

This is not the way of peace, this is the way of elimination,” concluded Nare Simonyan.

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