Satik Seyranyan’s guest in “Pressing” program Dr. Artur Khachikyan of Stanford University Political Science is

The main theses of the interview are below.

• Macron said in plain text: 8 years ago, when you were an ally of Russia, as he literally said, you were a satellite, we didn’t need you, now, when you want to fight Russia, you need us. They did not come to us, but to Zelensky. They came to hold an anti-Russian congress. Let them do that fight with Russia, but what did we have to do with them doing it near us? Ukraine is given enormous weapons, and we are given a pear tail. They came here to do Nikoli’s PR so that their ambassador would be re-elected and Armenia would become an anti-Russian platform.:

• When in 2020 4 states attacked us, Europeans, where were you? That’s when we needed your help. Our boys were also killed with weapons given by Zelensky. That person congratulated Aliyev, and you kiss his hands and give him a gift in Yerevan.

• “Bunderlejen” (President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen, editor’s note) forgot everything when he smelled Azerbaijani oil and gas… And in 2022. In October, Macron gave a very “beautiful” interview, said: we will never leave the Armenians, we remember the Genocide, told the story of Mount Musa, then mentioned that Karabakh is a territory in the heart of Azerbaijan. I have a question for Mr. Macron, that is, what about people, didn’t 120,000 people live there? Mr. Macron, what happened to the Minsk Group? What papers were you signing for 35 years? We were sold to have France take revenge on the Russians for Africa. Macron says this openly:

• In Armenia, look at the terror towards the opponents, they don’t say a word from Europe, but if the same situation were in Belarus, for example, can you imagine what the statements would be…

• Համարեք, որ Փաշինյանն արդեն անկլավները հանձնել է, ու Երևան-Թբիլիսի ճանապարհը լինելու է Ադրբեջանի վերահսկողության տակ: Tigranashen will surrender, Syunik will be cut.

• Let us not be fooled by Macron, he himself organized the Prague meeting with Charles Michel. Why are you blaming Nicole? And where were you? Why did you sit on the side? Why didn’t you ask what those 120,000 people will do? What fate will those people have? Macron went to Tsitsernakaberd today. Well done, but don’t be hypocritical. On the one hand, you go to the Genocide Memorial, on the other hand, you continue the Genocide. I hope, like Vance, he will not receive a call from Turkey and delete his post on the social network:

• Pro-democracy France keeps dictators in Africa because it gets oil, gas, uranium. For example, Bokassa, who in addition to being a dictator, according to some reports, is also a cannibal. A total of 8 dictators, including the leaders of Congo, Cameroon, and Togo.

• With his video message from Baku, Aliyev put the Europeans in their place, he also called us separatists, and the leader of our country swallowed his tongue. He also announced that he dreams of going to Baku… Isn’t there such a medicine?: 

• Մակրոնն ունի ռեյտինգի պատմական ռեկորդ. rating dropped to 11%. Ֆրանսիական որևէ ղեկավար երբևէ նման ցածր վարկանիշ չի ունեցել: Մակրոնը չի ընտրվելու, Բրիտանիայի վարչապետ Սթարմերը նույնպես հեռանալու է:

• None of our neighboring countries do stupid things like us and do not enter into a war with Russia. everyone is neutral: Georgia, Turkey, Iran, everyone.

• If you find former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson now, ask him if more than a million young Ukrainians have died, are you at peace with it, what will he say? You remember, there was a diplomatic way to solve the Ukrainian issue, but that person did not allow the meeting in Turkey. This is a political and diplomatic crime:

To remind: Comparing Zelensky with Churchill, former Prime Minister of Great Britain Boris Johnson, whose maternal grandmother was Turkish, said during a discussion in Turkey that Ukraine should fight to the last Ukrainian. 

• We have a unique situation where our own government hates our people more than foreigners. We need to check his blood, let’s see what nationality he is from, why he hates Armenians, why is he taking revenge on us?

• Did anyone offer us a military alliance based on the results of this EU summit, are they ready to guarantee our security, are they ready to accept us into NATO, when do we become EU members… Did they say anything concrete? Of course not. Are you going to fight us with Russia? You say: close the nuclear power plant, but will you give us gas and oil, will you open the European market to us? There is no answer. Where will our workers go to work? What will the 500,000 Khopanchi Armenians living and working in Russia do? Will they leave them and come to Europe? What happened to the visa-free regime? All our leaders negotiated visa liberalization, and the Third President Serzh Sargsyan in 2017 signed a serious document, CEPA, which was ratified by the parliaments of dozens of European countries, within the framework of which visa liberalization was to be implemented. So you haven’t done anything new, in fact you haven’t done anything:

• I would also like that the interests of the superpowers would not collide here, but can Mr. Macron stop Turkey’s imperial ambitions? In Hormuz, France refused to help its closest ally, the USA, how will it help us? In other words, they are telling us once again to break away from Russia, then how will you be able to see your head.

• Wake up, dear people, they will bring 300,000 Azerbaijanis, learn Turkish. Then Aliyev will want to ensure the safety of Azerbaijanis, and the Azerbaijani army will enter Armenia:

• These have 15 faces, their standards change daily. Neither Russia nor Europe should interfere in our elections, it should be done by our people. But when you talk about Russia’s hybrid intervention and you don’t see your intervention, that’s hypocrisy. When protesters are attacked in another country, oppositionists are arrested, they see it, but when the same thing happens in Armenia, they don’t. These would shake Adolf Hitler’s hand.

• Imagine if Macron entered Notre Dame during a church service and his bodyguard punched an 18-year-old… just imagine for a minute, what would happen to him? But coming supports this. The same, Starmer. Let’s say, imagine, he says: I will decide who will be the head of the Anglican Church.

• The show will end, those people will go home, we will see our daily lives, we will look at our problems, the prices of our goods, which are more expensive in Yerevan than in New York, and those people will already be thousands of kilometers away…

Details in the video.

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