Author: Emil Lazarian

In the “Pressing” program Satik Seyranyan the guest is Arman Tatoyan, the Prime Minister candidate of the Wings of Unity party is 

Our first question to Arman Tatoyan was the following: how would he feel as the prime ministerial candidate of the “Wings of Unity” party, if an election billboard with his photo was placed in Baku, like, for example, Nikol Pashinyan is advertised in the central streets of Baku?

“Let’s go, let’s die again… what should we feel… You can’t say anything more when you see that Pashinyan’s picture has appeared on billboards in Baku.” he replied.

The main theses of the interview are below.

• For Pashinyan, a citizen, a person has no value. Man is just a tool to maintain his power. For a pathological liar and coward like Nikol Pashinyan, it is a pathological syndrome to blame everyone. Everyone is to blame for their every failure: the former, the Russians, everyone, except them and Azerbaijan… We have a NA president who sees a citizen, spits, and declares that Azerbaijan is the guarantor of our security. Azerbaijan is personally the guarantor of their security:

• Our citizens understand very well that they are dealing with a pathological deceiver. People understand everything very well. That’s why they do everything to keep people away from the elections, so that there is little participation. They are terribly afraid of citizens, that’s why they do everything to prevent people from going to the elections.

• In Azerbaijan, they are now making statements at the highest state level that everything should be done so that KP and Pashinyan are re-elected and remain in power. Ես դրա կոնկրետ ապացույցներն ունեմ ու դրանք ներկայացնելու եմ ԵՄ դեսպանին: Ես սա անվանում եմ տասովշիկություն: Նիկոլ Փաշինյանը հայտնվել է ամերիկյան իրականությանը բնորոշ waterboy-ի դերում: 

• It’s just a shame, we have never had such a leader in our history. How much have you failed our security system, that you are scaring the Armenian people with the war and with Aliyev? Are you bringing us a boy? Our people will answer it with their vote. I can’t imagine that any country can have such a leader:

• Azerbaijan, whose plan is to destroy you, does not allow our country to develop its army. How can we protect ourselves, our country? Instead of rearming and developing the army, one more thing, if the enemy allows something, let’s remove the eye so that it knows its place, we are told that you cannot develop the army.…

• We pay 621 million drams from all of our pockets for 4 families living in government private houses. And this number is increasing with progression. Հիշո՞ւմ եք, որ 2024թ. he said at the government meeting: “It’s cold, we’re getting cold.” After that, the costs of the mansion increased by 18 million. You write yourself so many bonuses in millions, what do you do with that money, do you throw it back? Instead, as an election bribe, they increased the pensions of our pensioners by 10,000 drams, and they pay it back every day. people or see how much favor we have done for you…

• When I think about who is making decisions for the fate of me, my children, my friends, my relatives, I am going crazy… We must not allow this nightmare to happen again one day… 

• I have worked in the state apparatus for a long time. There are many conscientious servants in the middle and lower echelons, decent professionals whose salaries are significantly lower than those of the elite. We have tasib, honorable people working in the state apparatus, who remain in the shadows in the background. If someone tries to deviate from their line, show honor, tasib, Armenianness, at the same second they will be punished, fired, etc… this is unacceptable…

• The army’s criminal proceedings related to the 44-day war were entirely political. The main motivation of this government was to clean the crime from them. They feel like a dog that if the government suddenly changes, all proceedings will be investigated to the end, everyone’s scope of responsibility will become known.

• The European summit was an important event, expensive but not giving us anything. We did not receive any tangible benefit from the event. And Pashinyan’s behavior during Aliyev’s speech was shameful. What was your situation, you are so obsessed with this alibi, how are you humiliating an entire people? Aliyev’s speech was completely a speech of hatred, not only for Artsakh, but also for the entire Armenian people. And after that, Pashinyan says that the Artsakh movement was a fatal mistake. The people of Artsakh exercised their right to self-determination. The first Artsakh war was about that, we avoided genocide with it. But after losing the 44-day war, Pashinyan opened a new door for genocide. Artsakh is my homeland, part of my Armenian identity. This is my belief. There should not be any discrimination against the people of Artsakh, we are the same people, the same flesh and blood. The return of the people of Artsakh to their homeland is for justice, for the security of Armenia. This is a solvable issue. All my life I have dealt with international law, issues like that. The issue of the return of Artsakh citizens is a solvable issue, but for this, the head of the state must be a smart, professional person.:

• They receive 2 buckets of wheat and 2 canisters of gasoline from Azerbaijan, clean Aliyev all over the world, present Azerbaijan as a humanist state. They don’t even know the location of Armenia on a map, they express such thoughts in interviews, you are amazed. There is a female deputy, she says that this wheat comes from Azerbaijan at once. They still don’t know how to make Aliyev like them. 

• I have no doubt that Azerbaijan will ensure the safe life of CP after being deprived of power. 

• Such a government will be established in Armenia, where there will be rule of law and a fully functioning independent judicial system. During all the years of this government’s rule, any episode that appears to involve criminality should be fully investigated.

• Let me say another scheme of criminal activity: the elimination of national identity.

• CP community heads, gather your heads. Who have you been in your life to terrorize people in places? We will protect our people. Those who lived the life of Abizhnik got power, and now they are making fun of our citizens, scaring our citizens. Governors directly participate in repression. This is a criminal scheme to retain power:

• Our people, Pashinyan, are not afraid of threats of war. On the contrary, he wants a strong army. He created a bubble of peace, Aliyev is blackmailing the people. There is no political force participating in the elections in Armenia that wants war. This is Pashinyan’s trap. 

• Pashinyan, what about the security system? Being in power for 8 years, you have destroyed the country’s security system in such a way that another country threatens us with war, and you say: if it is not me, there will be a war… This is his concept of peace. Look at the level of cunning and dishonesty in this. In order to be able to talk about peace today, he found out about the Azerbaijani invasions of 2025 and hid them in order to deceive our people. Who are you anyway to cover up the issues concerning my country and people? 

• They say that border demarcation will solve the issue of Azerbaijani invasion. are you serious, how many brothers are you like this? So, Azerbaijan has come so far, strengthened, deepened to come out with a piece of paper? The fact that Azerbaijanis are sitting in your borders is not the real Armenia you say? Gayane Abgaryan, who was tortured in Jermuk, was not tortured in your real Armenia, you pathological liar? They care only about their personal safety:

• Until now, Sona Mnatsakanyan’s case has not been revealed, the perpetrators have not been punished. A pregnant woman was killed by Pashinyan’s convoy. Why were the radio communication devices destroyed, why were they not submitted for examination? Do we all have the right to doubt that if they were taken, Nikol Pashinyan’s guilt and role would be revealed? What are you doing with our people? 

• I always say to our people: I come to you with an open front. My whole life and activities have been before your eyes. Our country really needs fair-minded, intelligent, Motherland-loving leaders.

• We must consistently develop relations with European countries. This is not discussed. We should also develop relations with the European Union, but go on a separate path. The government is deceiving our people. Their European values ​​are alien, theirs is Azerbaijan. Apart from that, going to the EU today is not realistic, we are not expected in Europe today. What is your connection with Europe? You have a president of the republic who only takes selfies with dead people next to the coffin and is an associate of CP and Nikol Pashinyan.

• He has brought the state bodies under him, he imagines himself as the director of the National Security Service, an operational inspector, an investigator, a prosecutor, a judge, a door guard. All this has nothing to do with democracy. That’s why today our officials are not protected:

• If you are not deceiving our people, tell me when exactly visa liberalization will take place. Until the end of the year…When… What have you done for 8 years, have you failed at everything? You have failed to implement CEPA. This was the important document with which we should have approached Europe, but nothing was done to implement it. Yes, I repeat, we should develop relations with Europe and the USA, but never act against Russia. “Either Russia or Europe” policy is wrong. Imagine if we wake up tomorrow and find out that the price of gas has increased, what will happen? This government deepened economic dependence on Russia. Are you speaking from Russia? from dependence, but no government in Armenia has ever made us so dependent on Russia. The interests of Armenia require not to be enmity with any country under any circumstances:

• What is this whiner doing? It’s a shame, aren’t you a boy, what are you doing? But he does it to show that he is not Aliyev’s man, so that he will not be asked about the promises he made and did not fulfill. 

• He said that in 2050, the population of Armenia will be 5 million. Instead, they have made us an aging society…

• Is the liar the person who calls out the number of 5,000 victims of the war, or the person who belittles the victims of two wars, disrespects the sacrifices of all families, the blood that was shed, our martyrs? It does not suit us to have such a head of a country. People should know by name: who are the victims, who are those who gave their lives for this country, who did not think about their lives, but gave their young lives to the Motherland. They don’t publish the names of our victims, instead they tell us to compile the lists of Genocide victims, which is one of the most important Turkish theses to reject the Genocide.:

• I was a human rights defender under this government, I went through a lot of things. They told me: don’t go to the border areas, don’t make unfavorable statements for us, so that the people don’t think that we are a weak government. What is important to me is the interest of my country, do I really care if you will keep your position or not? For that, they took the cars from the HRD structure.

• Nikol Pashinyan made the summit of the European Political Community part of his campaign. If there is a national government, there should be a different content for that summit. Azerbaijan’s candidate in the Armenian elections is Nikol Pashinyan. We need to have a consensus here. He is nobody’s man. there is a person whose candidate is Nikol Pashinyan. It is Azerbaijan.

• I am not dependent on any geopolitical center and I do not represent anyone’s interest. I have always promoted and will promote exclusively the interests of Armenia:

• I will be there, if it is possible to hold a high-level representative event in my country, I will do it, but I will manage all the risks. When Zelensky from your country gives a thumbs up to Russia, you become a platform from which a conflict is provoked. The Armenian side is provoking a conflict between the countries that are already at war, moreover, the countries in which Armenians live in both. What did it give us?

• Relations with Russia are complicated, I myself have questions for the Russian authorities. It is obvious that these authorities are the cause of this, but we should sit and discuss. But that does not mean that you should make your country a platform for conflict.

• Zelensky was in Azerbaijan 9 days before coming to our country, signed 6 agreements with Azerbaijan. Let him make his statements against Russia from there, why didn’t he do it?:

• If you are the head of the country, should there be such a high-level event in your country, would you not raise a single question about border delimitation, ethnic cleansing in Artsakh, and other crimes of Azerbaijan?

• This government is capable of anything for the sake of position and power. I want to ask our people to keep this in mind and definitely go to the elections. Dear people, they will not be able to control, go and elect an opposition candidate. Losing power is a nightmare for CP. I want to ask our state bodies, it is a shame for our country to have such a leader. I want to appeal to our law enforcement agencies, guys, who is this person to play you, to use you for his own interests? We have many dignified servants, do not pay tribute to illegal orders. We have a mission to save this country. We have nowhere else to go. This is our homeland. me I am absolutely against violence, I guarantee the supremacy of law for Pashinyan as well. We have all the scenarios for all situations, including the post-election street fight, we have thought of everything, because, I repeat, these are capable of anything. We will not give country to Aliyev’s candidate. Don’t we want a leadership for which we don’t fall to the ground in shame? We don’t need a leader who goes to international meetings, eats apples, rips the curtains, then takes a picture and posts it on Facebook. We paid a heavy price, but I want this vicious cycle to be a lesson so that we never have such a government again. 

• The school in Davit-Bek village of Syunik, where Aram Manukyan studied, is being closed. Instead of keeping them as the light of an eye, they take the children away, show them, they lock them up. 

Details in the video.

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