The guest of 168TV’s program “Zara has a question” is Narek Karapetyan, a member of the board of the “Strong Armenia” party.is

During the regular campaign in Gegharkunik marz 168․amasked Narek Karapetyan about the pre-election expectations and the post-election perspective, they discussed the security theses in the field, the pledges of peace, as well as the economic potential of Armenia. Theses of the conversation are below.

• During the war of 2020, the man who was the prime minister had a doubt: “How did Artsakh become ours?”, why did he call on the Armenian people, volunteers, hundreds and thousands of people to go to the front, to give their lives and health for Artsakh? With what kind of responsibility will he look into the eyes of those people, parents, girls, whose children, husbands he sent to the front, who lost either their health or their lives?

Secondly, there were many projects in Artsakh, there were mines in Artsakh, there were factories, productions in Artsakh, 25 percent of Armenian wheat, 100,000 tons of wheat was supplied to Armenia by Artsakh. currently all of Armenia produces 100,000 tons, Artsakh was sending a significant amount of electricity from renewable hydropower to Armenia, which helped us import less gas.

According to the long-term forecast, Artsakh would become our strongest energy cushion, Artsakh would become our strongest agricultural cushion. in the production of wheat and grain, we would have a chance to achieve self-sufficiency and food security. There are few regions with such climatic conditions in Armenia today. We had a developing region, and there was also a very disciplined population.

You can’t say one thing every time and say something else after a few years. to shirk responsibility. You are responsible for sending those people there, be kind enough to carry that burden to the end, not to say when was ours? And those lives, those people who lost their health, their mutilated destinies, the entire Armenian nation, with the Diaspora, who entered into that struggle, why did they enter? If it wasn’t ours, how did he go there to dance?

Artsakh was ours, it was not ours.

• Why were those miracles not done during the past 8 years? why, when the main opposition was created, because of which they felt a great danger, and after that they only started working? Why didn’t he get medical insurance for 8 years, why didn’t he increase his pension by 10,000 drams, why did he do it before the elections, because he was afraid? He was afraid that the people would go in the direction of the force that was formed.

• We are in a region where poverty has increased over 8 years, according to official data, poverty has increased by 4 percent, also because there is no plan. Look, behind us is Sevan, a unique economic unit, the population living in its vicinity has and should have many employment options: tourism, fish farming, fishing. The region with Sevan, with such a fresh lake, must be the most prosperous.

• Today, our citizens are becoming poorer in many regions, poverty has increased in many marzes over the past 8 years, because prices are rising all over the country, and the reason for the price increases is that the country itself does not produce its own goods. To get out of this situation, we need really prudent, long-term economic plans, and he left everything and went to attack the church.

• The attack on the church, in our opinion, is a step of “foreign influence”. he was given an order to take the church under control, as during the time of the communists, Stalin, and to be able to remove from the agenda several issues that are the basis of Armenian value systems, for example, the issues of the Genocide, connecting the Diaspora to Armenia. What is the opponent afraid of, what does the person who considers us an opponent, I am not saying the country or the nation, afraid of our diaspora and our church that connects Armenia to the Diaspora?

• In general, is there an Armenian in the world who is against peace? Who behaved so that he could not start 3 wars in 8 years? can it be his emotions, miscalculation, not understanding diplomacy? He is experimenting on us.

What about peace? what was there, this person has already given, the last thing – they want to sign a weak peace within the framework of the peace treaty, without a guarantor, so that in the future, by bringing the compatriots of their neighboring country here, they will have influence in the country. This is the program. The neighboring country predicts its steps decades in advance, they want to bring those bombs, put them under our country, so that the internal stability will be disturbed.

• People who see such ears, we must tell them that we also see Turks’ mustaches behind the back of the CP and we see the danger from there. As for other accusations, be sure that only Armenia will benefit from our policy, whoever Armenia makes friends with, and not only with one country, but with many countries, the Republic of Armenia will be enriched. We know its form.

• The next Prime Minister of Armenia will be Samvel Karapetyan. we have to fight, we will fight, and I see that the victory will be ours.

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