“Pressing” The guest of Satik Seyranyan in the program is the former secretary general of the Switzerland-Armenia parliamentary group, the chairman of the Council of Armenian and pro-Armenian organizations in Switzerland. Sargis Shahinyan is

The main theses of the interview are below.

• During the summit of the European political community, Armenia appeared superficially, just as a host party. However, during that time, not a single issue affecting Armenia was either raised or resolved. That gathering was needed by the current administration to show that it can bring 48 heads of state here, and, that he is close to them, particularly Macron. The documents signed with the EU and France were not treaties, but declarations of intent, in which there were only tendencies and nothing of substance. That’s alln: Before the elections, there was support for Nikol Pashinyan.

• Europe will not even give a finger to our securityyto protect it.

• Of course, Armenia will not enter the EU. Even Ukraine was not admitted to the EU, let alone Armenia, which has less value for Europe than Ukraine. We need to clear the dust in our eyes and see that we are choosing between the worst and the worst. On June 7, we should choose not Russia or Europe, but ourselves, Armenia.

• The Karabakh conflict was not just nail dust that passed. The reality is that we lost the war and from then on we had to figure out what to do. We didn’t do that, and today the Armenian authorities make concession after concession using the salami method… As a result, we are not safe today.:

• Liberalization of visas and other European “goods”, even if they become a reality, is the price of losing Karabakh and our other territorial and other concessions. And we have to think, after all this, do we agree that the prime minister should continue to keep his seat?

• What happened at Nikol Pashinyan’s meeting with the Armenian community in Switzerland, when he questioned the Armenian Genocide, its causes and consequences, was denial and cynical denial.:

• What Nikol Pashinyan is doing is a Turkish plan: the loss of Karabakh, denial of the Genocide, the “return” of 300,000 Azerbaijanis to Armenia… The leader of this plan is not Erdogan himself, but Hakan Fidan, the current foreign minister, who will be the next president of Turkey.:

• There is a problem of the intention and ability to hold the country today. I am not naive enough to think that we should continue to remain enemies with Azerbaijan and Turkey. But let’s not forget that under this administration and with its permission, the sovereign territory of our country was occupied by Azerbaijan. Voting for this regime in the elections, standing behind it, is a step against Armenia’s security. I ask people to fulfill their civic duty and participate in the elections on June 7. 

• If we pay for Pashinyan’s hearts and smiles with Syunik, it will be a low price. I am afraid that we will pay in Armenia.

• As for TRIPP, Armenia has nothing to do there, nothing to do. Armenia has no strategic words to say. On the contrary, we will lose the logistical capabilities of Iran and Russia. We are exposed to this problem. 

• The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has already done her dirty work when she twice announced Aliyev as their reliable pole.

• It is not that China is waiting for the opening of 42 kilometers of Syunik. What will that give him, just a 1-2% turnover chance? I don’t understand the excitement of RA leaders. It would be beneficial if all communications were opened.

• Macron in 2027 in April, willy-nilly, he will leave. And God forbid that his successor will have the same approach to Armenia as Macron, that he will consider us as a milk cow. Today, the whole world has a water problem. And in Armenia, the French company owns the water monopoly.

• You and I will leave here if 300,000 Azerbaijanis came to Armenia. I’m not spreading racial hatred, but we know the consequences it can have:

• The “resolution” of the Karabakh issue in this way made it possible for the Taiwan issue to be “solved” in front of the silence of the world. Unfortunately, we are setting a bad example.

• Your likes, hearts, your statements, European leaders, are of no concern to anyone except this administration. I hope the people will prove it on June 7.

• We used to have serious diplomacy, now we don’t. The state must have a vision. Today’s diplomacy of Armenia is not needed, because others put their diplomacy on their table:

• What is against this administration’s propaganda theses, according to them, is a hybrid war. For this they are paid huge sums of money, millions of euros.

• If any Western leader behaved as Pashinyan did this morning in the Arabkir community while talking to the doctor, the law enforcement agencies would definitely call him to account. When you put reality in front of Pashinyan, which is a direct expression of his incompetence, the balance is lost. Pashinyan, who stands humble and submissive in front of the whole world, behaves like that only here. This man cannot have international weight, he cannot express and explain normally:

• We could not understand that we should be pro-Armenian first of all. The voter should know this clearly, that he should choose Armenia and definitely go to the polls.

• With a high probability, 4 opposition forces will enter the parliament in the June 7 vote. You have to be smart to get rid of Nikol Pashinyan from June 8. The actors of the opposition must put aside their ego, their cocky approach, their ego and solve the issue. 

• It is very important not to give in to provocations, because Nikol Pashinyan is capable of anything. he can, for example, turn people against each other on June 8:

• Pashinyan threatens with war the people who can be affected by it, he can only blackmail weak people. 

• At the time of Levon Ter Petrosyan, on March 1, 2008, Pashinyan himself bled. People have forgotten, but the records are there, the videos are there, yes, and it’s real. How can I believe in a person who is ready to let the blood of his own nation flow?

• Diaspora cannot be guided by Pashinyan’s agendas. Diaspora has its own power and role, its weight.

• God forbid, it will be confirmed that Nikol Pashinyan intended to destroy the Church since 2018, but everything is leading to it… This already makes it clear whose hands we have fallen into. 

• Unfortunately, among Armenians, the knife does not reach the bone, we do not understand that a fire has broken out: 

Let’s remind that days after the color revolution of 2018 in Armenia, on April 29, a man with a backpack, climbing on the Cathedral, tried to saw the cross of the cathedral in order to replace it with an iron rose.

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