You can’t gather your deputies in one place, let alone the people

The guest of the “Pressing” program is Edgar Ghazaryan, deputy of the “Strong Armenia” opposition faction of the RA National Assembly, former governor of Vayots Dzor, RA envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, former RA ambassador to Poland.

• Nikol Pashinyan, you can’t gather your deputies in one place, let alone gather the people…

• You go to Narek Karapetyan’s house 4 times, what do you do? were you checking the fridge?

• What did you come to do with a machine gun, a beekeeper’s mask on your face? go, get the Turks out of the territories of Armenia…

• What is the director of the NSS doing in Baku? I have the right, don’t I, to ask why you went…

• If you lose the state, what part of your property is important?

• Members of the Communist Party, he is using compromising material against you, if you take it against him once, we will get rid of it.

• Samvel Karapetyan is in politics to remove Nikol, not to agree on something else.

• How does the robbery happen? if you are a government official, what difference does it make if the money goes into your account or if it is given in an envelope?

• Who has seen the head of the country go and give an interview in the public garage to an ordinary media, Euronews?

• The current status of Samvel Karapetyan is different from the previous status of detention. In the past, he was again a highly respected and influential figure among the people, but now he is also the head of the party, which is represented in the National Assembly by a group of 29 deputies. Nikol Pashinyan is trying to oppress Samvel Karapetyan by persecuting him, exerting influence on the deputies of the faction, but without understanding who he is dealing with. Did Samvel Karapetyan enter the political arena to make an agreement with Nikol Pashinyan? Samvel Karapetyan entered politics to remove Nikol Pashinyan, not to agree on anything with him. What does he think, should Samvel Karapetyan be afraid of going to prison again? He thinks he’s out of his mind…

• What did Nikol Pashinyan do with Arush Arushanyan? Arush Arushanyan was an opposition figure, wasn’t he? He put the prisoner under arrest, initiated criminal cases, and then said: look, the prison sentence is hanging on your head. If you don’t cooperate with the KP now, the Supreme Court can make a decision, let’s cancel this decision, they will take you to the Goris prison, not the Goris municipality. And if you cooperate with the CP, you become a mayor, they give subsidy programs, you earn money, you write “0” (zero) on the car numbers, and you come to work for yourself… This is one of Nikol Pashinyan’s ways of working…

• Nikol Pashinyan, look at Samvel Karapetyan, look at you, you lucky one. Even if you live 500 biological lives, you will not be half of Samvel Karapetyan. He is a person with completely different values. He left his prosperous life and wealth and came here today, he is struggling to preserve the values ​​of his state.

• Pashinyan is no longer trusted in Europe, nor in Russia, he is left in limbo, he also has time limits and now he doesn’t know what to do. He says: bring us to change the Constitution at Aliyev’s request. We also say: the Armenian people say: who is Aliyev to come and decide in our country?

• When Nikol Pashinyan had just come to power, in 2019, in Ijevan, his hometown, forest cutters, who have been living in that forest all their lives, from the day they were born, were protesting. Restrictions were placed in front of them in relation to selling the remains of logging and sanitary logging. They raised a riot. The tension was high, the people went out into the streets. Since Nikol Pashinyan organized protests in 2018, those people thought that they could raise their protest against Pashinyan’s decision, it was a social riot, but they did not demand the resignation of the government, they raised their issues. Tensions were high and police chief Valery Osipyan was gone Ijevan and the then director of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan.

Later, in 2020, Artur Vanetsyan told during one of the opposition rallies that at that time Pashinyan had called him, and do you know what he instructed… He told Vanetsyan: “I want rivers of blood to flow through the streets”… Can you imagine, in his hometown, against people complaining about social problems, who were expressing a civil opinion…

Later, of course, he saw those rivers of blood in Artsakh in 2020… He can’t get enough of it, now he wants to see rivers of blood in the streets of Yerevan, he wants to turn one part of the people against the other part… That person is evil.

And we don’t need rivers of blood. We need the well-being and peace of our people. And the statement of today’s political forces is not about rivers of blood, it is about real peace, it is about the loss of territory without the homeland, it is about rejecting the Aliyev Constitution, it is about restoring democracy and ensuring the well-being of our people.

To remind: 2020 Artur Vanetsyan, head of the “Homeland” party, former director of the NSS, during the “Nikol, leave” rally in Liberty Square. referred to The actions of the police in those days in Yerevan, when peaceful protesters were forcibly detained.

 “Yesterday’s incidents that took place in Yerevan are simply unacceptable and illegal. We will find out one day who those guys in uniform of unknown origin were. I know that people sitting in front of the TV are surprised, they say that Nikol Pashinyan promised that he will not use violence against his opponents, and if the people want him, he will definitely leave, but Nikol Pashinyan is lying again. I want to tell one story, why Nikol Pashinyan uses force against the people who are peacefully demonstrating or doing a peaceful action, because Nikol Pashinyan doesn’t really love this people, Nikol Pashinyan is a chronic liar.

Now let me tell you why he doesn’t like it. You may remember that 2 years ago there were protests in the city of Ijevan, the protests of people cutting wood from the forest. At that time I was the director of the National Security Service and I ended up there. A very logical question arose as to what the director of the NSS has to do with the protesters in Ijevan – there is one very simple reason. Nikol Pashinyan, seeing that a large number of people went out to the streets and protested, fell into another hysterical fit. He called me, my friend, then police chief Valery Osipyan, and said: I want to see rivers of blood, kill everyone. Now, I want to say that when Nikol Pashinyan says he loves all of you, he bows down to all of you, he is telling a lie, he hates all of you, he only loves his power and position,” said Artur Vanetsyan. 

He emphasized that the well-known history of those incidents in Ijevan proves why the police used such brutal force yesterday, it is not so easy to reject the person holding the position of the country’s prime minister and say that they are not following his orders.

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