No matter how much Nikol Pashinyan and his political team try to legitimize the various statements and demands coming from Baku against Armenia, saying that they are a mirror, including the statements stemming from the “Western Azerbaijan” state project and not only, they have nothing to do with reality.

We have written more than once that Aliyev himself never considered the “Western Azerbaijan” state-political program, which is consistently promoted, as a mirror, but considered it in the context of human rights.

The President of Azerbaijan has not voiced statements consistent with Nikol Pashinyan’s statements on historical-political or legal-political issues, if not to say the exact opposite.

Latest fresh examples. Nikol Pashinyan is trying to change the model of patriotism inherited from his ancestors and parents among the Armenian society and the Armenian youth, injecting the thesis that it was imperial, non-state and dictated and authored by foreigners. And it doesn’t matter that what is offered to us in the logic of “real Armenia” is actually imposed, dictated, which implies a rejection of Armenian history with its mistakes and successes. Pashinyan’s government is trying to convince us that this way we will be more perceptible by foreigners and the international community. Perceptible or incapable of resistance, weak, serving the interests of outsiders and easy? digestible

There is also a manipulation here. Pashinyan and CP say one thing: if we don’t erase our history and start from scratch, a war will start, we can’t settle relations with Turkey, and another, contradicting themselves, they declare that Azerbaijan does not allow Turkey to negotiate with Armenia. Alen Simonyan announced the other day.

At the time, during Serzh Sargsyan’s rule, in fact, Azerbaijan was an obstacle that prevented the implementation of the Armenian-Turkish protocols, in fact, at that time, Armenia was ready to regulate relations with Turkey without preconditions, but this did not mean giving up its own history, the facts of the past, and writing “modern history” from the zero point. But, when today the authorities say that Azerbaijan is hindering…, when there have been so many concessions by Armenia, an objective question arises: does this once again show that the peace is not really stable?

Let’s return to Pashinyan’s model of “patriotism” and note that at the 9th Congress of the Council of Elders he announced:

«The growing threats in the world, especially the erosion of national and spiritual and family values ​​in many countries as a result of the harmful influence of globalization and social networks, once again emphasize the importance and role of the Institute of Elders in Azerbaijan. Educating our youth in the spirit of national patriotism and attachment to one’s own roots and putting them on the right path is one of the main tasks of our older generation.”

Is this equivalent to what Nikol Pashinyan teaches?

Moreover, during a regular briefing after the Cabinet meeting today, one of the journalists asked Nikol Pashinyan whether he is ready to publicly commit to supporting the punishment of war crimes in the territory of the Republic of Armenia, even if it refers to the military and political elite of Azerbaijan, to which he stated that such conversations are a double-edged sword.

Then there was also a question about the cases of vandalism carried out by Azerbaijan in Artsakh, to which Pashinyan answered that they will not be discussed at the state level.

And parallel to this, the Azerbaijani propaganda media unanimously published articles about Armenian “vandalism”, which, in particular, “happened” in Aghdam, Akna and Shushi. Moreover, on the national self-determination day of Turkey, which ensured the victory of Azerbaijan in the 44-day war, the delegation of the Defense National University of that country visited the occupied Shushi, accompanied by soldiers and officers of the Azerbaijani army, where some episodes of the 44-day war were recalled.

In Baku today, they also remembered how 3 years ago on these days, a checkpoint was placed on the border with Armenia on the Lachin-Stepanakert road, establishing control over the Lachin corridor, which was outside the tripartite document of November 9, 2020. However, in Azerbaijan, without hiding, they consider this another stage of state policy after the 44-day war, which should lead to the complete depopulation of Artsakh.
And in Yerevan today, the traditional torch procession organized by the Dashnaktsutyun will take place, which may make Nikol Pashinyan cringe, especially when it takes place on the day of Turkey’s national self-determination…

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