“A special department was opened in Azerbaijan for “West Azerbaijan”, is this not a provocation?

Edita Gzoyan, who has been in charge of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute since February 2024, submitted her resignation the other day. According to various news reports, he was removed from his position by the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, allegedly considering the problems related to the repair works of the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex. However, in reality, Nikol Pashinyan instructed him to write a resignation letter, no more, no less, because Edita Gzoyan gave US Vice President Vance a book about the Artsakh conflict.

“When the country’s prime minister says that there is no Karabakh movement, what does it mean to present a book on the subject of the “Artsakh issue” to a foreign guest? How many people can conduct foreign policy in this country?

The government conducts foreign policy in this country, and the government official of Armenia who says something contrary to Armenia’s foreign policy should be fired, what is the issue there? Are we a state or a self-made group?” said Nikol Pashinyan in a briefing with journalists yesterday after the Government session.

Ashot Melkonyan, academician of the National Academy of Sciences, former director of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences according to him, there is no political provocation in the steps taken by Edita Gzoyan.

“I don’t see any politics in these steps. The fact that ethnic cleansing of Armenians took place in Azerbaijan, genocidal acts in Artsakh in 2020-2023 is a fact, not only Armenian specialists, but also international experts have assessed all of this a long time ago. Now, if they present literature to US Vice President Vance regarding all this, I don’t see any provocation here.” of 168.am Ashot Melkonyan said in a conversation with

To the question: is he not afraid that one day Nikol Pashinyan will, for example, forbid historians to name Artsakh, or stop talking about the Armenian Genocide, Ashot Melkonyan replied that historians should continue to fulfill their professional duties.

“Writing an unbiased history is our task, which is what we are called to do and we will continue to work like that. Otherwise, it will turn out that we are returning to Soviet times, when there was a political conjuncture. science is science, politics is politics. In other words, the scientist is obliged to bring the historical truth to the surface, no matter how much it is not pleasing to some political force or government circles of another country. There are always problems with the neighbors, and we are obliged to raise these problems, which the Azerbaijanis do, in a way of turning it upside down. In Azerbaijan, in their history institute, they have created a special department to study the history of “Western Azerbaijan”, isn’t this a provocation, this is exactly what provocation is?

To remind, Edita Gzoyan submitted an application for release on March 11.

US Vice President Vance visited the Tsitsernaberd Memorial with his wife on February 10, he made a note in the memorial book of honored guests of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. Edita Gzoyan accompanied Vance to the memorial.

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