April 19, 2026
“Pressing” said on the show Armen Ashotyan, Vice Chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA).the, referred to the international structures, the visits of their heads to Yerevan and their influence on the internal political, in particular, electoral processes.
“The UN is an international organization consisting of 197 countries, which is in a deep systemic and institutional crisis. The main actors in the UN, apart from the 5 permanent members of the Security Council, whose opinion we know, are either Islamic states under influence or small poor states. It is naive to think that EU, OSCE, CIS observation delegations will be bad, but the UN will be good. This will not work. Yes, observation missions are important, but in this case, local observers, whom Nikol opposed before the elections, are much more important. If something like this were to happen in our time, the EU ambassador would be in Republic Square would do harm,” said Armen Ashotyan, adding that the policy of double standards in the European conjuncture is disgusting.
According to him, on the occasion of the European summit to be held in Yerevan, the Armenian people will show that they are not plants, so that they do not put us in the place of a donkey, that they do not come to our house, eat and drink, and ask how we are…
“We’re bad… If they come to Yerevan on those days and don’t see pickets, protests, if the international media don’t show that we raised our voice that day… then let’s go and die… They will understand that they didn’t come to Armenia for the weekend.
Marta Kos is a serious woman, she cannot come to Armenia and tell a lie, say: you know, you have a prospect of becoming a member of the EU. But I got angry because he came to Yerevan and Gyumri, ran around for two days, and didn’t put up a single poster or picket against them. We missed a cool chance. Now that woman will go to Brussels and say: everything is fine, no lawyer approached me, did not convey anything on political topics, I did not see any demonstration, long live Nicole… There are so many people sitting, what if someone’s child or grandchild didn’t go? Martha Kos said, give this letter to my father or grandfather… This is how European politics works. I’m sorry that we didn’t understand that,” concluded Armen Ashotyan.
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