Author: Emil Lazarian

The defense of Archbishop Arshak Khachatryan, the diplomat of the Mother See, presented a petition to the court at the first court session in his case regarding the immediate termination of the criminal prosecution.

“The whole accusation is built on the whims of some people. A situation is created when there is no physical evidence of the crime, there is no victim, the perpetrator, but there is the person who ordered it, I am represented as the person who ordered it,” said Reverend Arshak in his address to the court.

He added that he is not engaged in political activities, but now he is being politically prosecuted, and he expects the criminal prosecution to be stopped.

“It is obvious that everything here is fake and fabricated. “If the courts were at their height until this moment, if the investigators and the prosecutor’s office were impartial, if they were not delegated, we would not be in this situation, therefore I have no other expectations and demands,” said the reverend.

According to his defense attorney Arsen Babayan, according to the accusation, Saint Arshak, with the aim of discrediting some group, ordered an unknown person to perform some action, which was qualified as a crime against the health of the population, as provided by the Criminal Code, for trafficking narcotics for sale.

“In this regard, we believe that at least there is no object of crime, so we request to stop the criminal prosecution right now,” said defense attorney Arsen Babayan.

The prosecuting prosecutor, however, petitioned to re-apply Arshak to arrest.

“The case is still at the stage of preliminary investigations, not all persons of essential importance for the case have been questioned. Moreover, there are data that the alleged crime was committed with the involvement of several people, which significantly increases the risk of interfering with the process of coordinating testimony and proof,” said prosecutor Alisa Boyajyan.

According to his claim, the freedom of Saint Arshak can not only create a risk of influencing the witnesses, distorting their testimonies, but he can take steps to destroy or falsify possible evidence.

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On April 10, during a joint press conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, RA Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, in particular, declared.

“Unfortunately, there are still prisoners and detainees in Baku, and we think our position is the same. days ago, these people should be released, and we are sure that their release will only strengthen the established peace.

We continue our dialogue with Azerbaijan on this topic. Undoubtedly, this is one of the most important issues on our agenda. We continue to talk about this with international partners as well.

Yes, as you noticed, the end of the Red Cross activities in Azerbaijan has made the situation even more complicated in this regard, that is, we agree that the problem exists, and we continue our efforts in that direction. There is no news, this is the question that when there is news, immediately the whole society knows. The only news here might be the release of a new band.”

On April 10, the day of the 34th anniversary of the Maragha Genocide, so to speak, a 20-member delegation of Armenian civil society went to Azerbaijan through the demarcated and demarcated part of the land border (Kirants) and had a two-day discussion with Baku “civil society representatives” in Gabala, once again met Aliyev’s aide. Born in Ganja With Hikmet Hajiyev, we will refer to him later.

By the way, let us remind you that for 6 years, under the pretext of fighting against the coronavirus, Azerbaijan has been fighting with its neighbors keeps land borders closed. At the moment, there is a decision to keep it closed until July 1, 2026. Naturally, the reason is regional events, and it turns out that the Armenia-Azerbaijan land border along the Kirants section is the only one that is open, or is being opened if necessary.

And the members of the Armenian delegation that returned from Azerbaijan in Yerevan, in particular, the director of the Democracy Development Fund, Naira Sultanyan, said at the press conference that they talked about the prisoners and the people held in Baku in Azerbaijan.

“We emphasized that this issue does not fit into the logic of the peace process, that the peace process has progressed much further, and these issues must be resolved in order to guarantee the progress of the process.“, he noted.

Days after this, one of the Azerbaijani propaganda media, minval.az, published an article to publish in which, as a matter of fact, the official position of Aliyev or Baku was recalled, which was recently detailed we have touched on. 

What does Baku remind Yerevan and answer especially the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ararat Mirzoyan?

“Their (former military-political leadership of Artsakh – M.P.) legal status is determined by court decisions based on “evidence”, not by political statements or diplomatic gestures.

Historical and international experience unequivocally confirms that “serious crimes” (quotes: MP) cannot become an object of political “trade”. Let’s remind that After the Nuremberg trials, the international community established the principle of inevitability of punishment as a basis for sustainable peace. And here it should be noted that the convicts were not released for the sake of reconciliation, but on the contrary, it was their punishment that became the cornerstone of the post-war legal system. Thus, the peace agenda cannot be built on the neglect of crimes and the release of convicted persons. It is possible only in the case of maintaining a balance between humanity and justice, where the key role belongs not to political expediency, but to the inevitability of punishment and respect for court decisions.” wrote the Azerbaijani media, noting that the release of the representatives of the former military-political leadership of Artsakh can be considered not humanism, but a refusal of the principle of justice.

Of course, Baku is lying when it does not attribute this issue to political expediency, it will be resolved according to political expediency. That is another question today the release of the former military-political leadership of Artsakh is considered as an internal political or internal issue of the country, and tries to assure that the release of non-ordinary Armenians held in Baku can undermine the faith of the citizens of Azerbaijan in the state institutions of the country, otherwise, the fabrication of accusations against the former leaders of Artsakh can come to light, which is definitely not beneficial to Aliyev at the moment, nor does he have a problem of looking “good” today. Let’s not say that the manifestations of good will in the world today do not have a serious character role, when international law is destroyed and force gives birth to law, or economic interest.

According to that, can we say that at this moment Aliyev does not see the need to show “good will” in order to maintain his own power within his country, and indirectly puts the responsibility of his “Nuremberg trial” on his own citizens as well, so that for political convenience, if he decides to release the former military and political leadership of Artsakh in exchange for something, he will condition it also on the wishes of ordinary Azerbaijanis. That is, everything is not as smooth as it is presented, including at the level of societies. On the other hand, so that ordinary Azerbaijanis stop seeing Armenians as enemies, here, of course, Pashinyan logically, the Armenian society has to do it first.

Does Aliyev put pressure on his people to become extremely peace-loving, does he force them to forget “genocide”, “ethnic cleansing”, like Nikol Pashinyan, of course not. Instead, Aliyev always has something to say to the Armenian society and Nikol Pashinyan in this context. For example, Aliyev’s assistant Hikmet Hajiyev, like him reported At the meeting with the members of the Armenian delegation that went to Azerbaijan, he again spoke about the Armenian “revanchist” forces.

“During the meeting, it was noted that the presence of “revanchist” forces in the internal political “landscape” of Armenia, along with their calls for war, creates a risk of returning the region to the turbulent state of the late 1980s and early 1990s,” Hajiyev emphasized, adding that the Armenian society wants peace, which creates a basis for them to hope that “the forces that assumed the role of “spoilers” will eventually fail to achieve peace.” in their attempts to undermine the agenda.”

It is a familiar phrase that we hear almost every day in this pre-election period, as they say, without comment.

If we return to Aliyev’s compulsion on his own people, in most cases it refers to the resettlement of Azerbaijani citizens in the occupied Artsakh territories. On one occasion, we wrote that many people return to Baku after a short time from their assigned places. This is a separate discussion topic.

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168 TV’s “Zara has a question” the guest of the program A member of the “Mother Armenia” faction of the Yerevan Council of Elders, a member of the pre-election list of the “Armenia” alliance It is Mesrop Manukyan.

The main theses voiced in the interview, in a nutshell:

• If Tigran Avinyan is sincere in his indignation and indignation and believes that there should be justice everywhere, then we should be the first to be indignant, spit at CP and them, the people will spit directly in their faces, because they and their “Republic” party have completely failed to manage Yerevan.

The citizen has never refused to pay, the citizen says: you do not carry out passenger transport. do you carry out cargo transportation? You promised decent transport, but instead, there are more than 100 gazelles in Yerevan, old buses donated by the Chinese government during the time of Taron Margaryan are still in operation in Yerevan, there is a shortage of around 500 vehicles in Yerevan, I am saying the minimum number, there are no more than 600 bus stops in Yerevan, there are pits and ditches in Yerevan.

In this case, the citizen asks the first question, he says: “Brother, did you remove the shadow that entered my pocket, are you able to calculate the cost of a passenger transportation or not?” There were no 2 officials in the city government and the entire CP that could say the same number of cost. everyone fell asleep, saying a price.

I am more inclined that they are being robbed than that they are not being recruited.

• First we note that we are dealing with a group of dilettantes, none of them are in place, just not in place.

If, God forbid, these things happen again, the situation in Yerevan will get worse and worse, the state of transport will be even more shameful.. In the first 2 years, no buses are planned to be bought in the medium-term expenditure plan, none, 0. That during the meetings they do something stupid, that we planned to take a bus, they lie. We have approved the budget for buying a bus, but no money has been allocated.

• The drivers themselves are treated as slaves. Now that is not enough, drivers are being pushed to fight. There is another problem here. if the driver starts to get angry… how will the poor drivers start driving the bus with that condition?

The man enters and says: there is no place to stand, neither you, nor Avinyan, nor CP. says the last words. Are they inciting the driver to become a criminal, endangering the lives of our citizens?

6 billion drams have been destroyed. there is no one responsible for this, and in a normal state they would have called and said: come and answer for this.

• 4.9 billion drams were spent on greening, creation of green zones and others. 13 million dollars. These people planted 5000 trees. I say, where is the other part of the money, he says, we planted 300,000 flowers, I say, where are the flowers, he says, winter has come, there is none, he says, I don’t know, they planted 40-50,000 bushes… let that bush grow on your head, you can’t, again, finally.

• It’s not that the sand and salt destroyed the asphalt (they can’t understand that either: I want to take a handful of sand and salt to the next meeting of the Council of Elders, fill it, see if they will disintegrate, we’ll get away) you understand… the sand and salt you pour, when the snow comes, it melts, it becomes water, it fills under the asphalt from those seams and holes, then the minus occurs, it swells, it cracks. the asphalt.

They express such stupid thoughts, they say it was the asphalt built by the previous ones, that is, the asphalt built 8 years ago lasted 8 years, 8 years…  Taron Margaryan, thank your ancestors a thousand times, you made such asphalt, it lasted for 8 years։

It has already been destroyed, it is not our fault. Were you an asphalt worker, were you selling a brand of asphalt to the people?. There is no quality control.

• In general, the system created by Nikol Pashinyan is already rotten, rotten from the inside, and since their money has increased a little, there is a race to see who will have more money, who will wear better clothes, who, I don’t know, will drink better wine and similar things. A general, corrupt, patronage structure.
• The collective opposition has work to do. He has work to do, every man must do his work in his trench.

Does the opposition have the opportunity to expel them? yes, it has. Will it be possible? We have to work. If we do not work, we are all to blame.

E:I see people are disgusted by these. I see that the power is held by the Turk.

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