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H.E. Congratulatory message of Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II on the occasion of the Republic Day.

“From the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, we send our blessing and congratulations to all our people in our homeland and in the diaspora on the occasion of the Republic Day.

Marking the foundation of the first Republic of Armenia, we remember the heroic battles of Sardarapat, Gharakilisa and Bash Aparan. Gevorg the Fifth Catholicos of All Armenians played a crucial role in those historical struggles. In the life-and-death struggle, the brave children of our people, including the clergy of our Holy Church, won the victory and ensured for generations the right to live independently and freely in their native land. With the same noble spirit, the devoted children of our nation selflessly defended their homeland in recent times, many sacrificed their priceless lives for the steadfastness of our statehood and a safe and dignified future. Today, we nationally bow our heads before our heroes and keep their bright memory in our hearts forever.

In the current difficult times, to face the external and internal challenges, we must unite and together strengthen our state, make the life of all Armenians prosperous and prosperous.

May the Most High Lord abundantly bless and keep our country and our Christ-loving people in Armenia and the Diaspora today and always. every.”

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Dear compatriots, May 28, 1918 is the turning point in Armenian history. It was on May 28 that the people, who had escaped the genocide, replaced the death sentence with the creation of statehood.

In Sardarapat, Bash Aparan and Gharakilisa, we proved that there is no such weapon in the world that can defeat the will to live in one’s own land. Faithful to its mission, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation undertook the superhuman mission of state building under the most difficult conditions. In a country full of orphans and refugees, in the midst of famine and wars, the founding generation of the Republic, Aram Manukyan, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Garegin Nzhdeh, Dron, Ruben Ter-Minasyan and other devotees, did the seemingly impossible and broke the destiny of our people.

Today we are again at a fateful stop. The course of our statehood is in doubt, our identity is under attack, our church is persecuted, our people are emigrants, Armenian Artsakh is lost.

But we know that the spirit of the heroic battles of May is still alive among the Armenian people, that our generations know themselves from Sardarapat.

Therefore, it is time to sober up, unite and stand up for our values ​​with national resistance. This is a struggle for identity and statehood, this is a new Sardarapat. We will stand up for independent Armenian statehood, we will restore our national dignity and we will not allow the fate of Armenians to be written at the behest of a foreigner.

We are, we will fight and we will win. Happy May 28.

Supreme body of ARF Armenia

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During the military parade organized on the occasion of the Republic Day, RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made a speech, summarizing the results recorded since 2022 in the direction of army building, acquisition of weapons and provision of social guarantees for servicemen.

“Today we present to you the new army of the Republic of Armenia with new weapons, new uniforms and new ideology. The core of that ideology is as follows. The only task of the army is the protection of the internationally recognized sovereign territory of the Republic of Armenia, and our army should not be deployed outside the internationally recognized territories of Armenia, except for peacekeeping missions based on international agreements.”

Referring to the process of acquiring weapons, the Prime Minister reminded that before 2022, international markets for weapons and military equipment were mostly closed or difficult to access for RA, as international partners refused to supply weapons, fearing that they would be used outside internationally recognized territories.

“Only after the agreement reached in Prague on October 6, 2022, when Armenia and Azerbaijan recognized each other’s territorial integrity on the basis of the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration, the international arms market was opened for Armenia only after this agreement. Armaments and military equipment produced by around 7 countries will be paraded in today’s military parade-report.

One of the important axes of the parade-report is the weapons and military equipment produced in RA, which today are taking the first but confident steps to occupy a stable position in the international market,” Pashinyan emphasized, adding that starting from 2022, the government has invested about 170 billion drams in the local military-industrial complex.

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We have a plan to rid Armenia of gas dependence. Narek Karapetyan, who heads the proportional list of the “Strong Armenia” alliance, said in a conversation with the journalists in “Sadarapat” that the government’s talk of finding an alternative to Russian gas.

Presenting the program, the figure noted that it is an expansion of barter cooperation with Iran.

“The load of the gas pipeline with Iran is now 30 percent. We have to make arrangements by transferring solar energy from Armenia to Iran and receiving a large amount of gas from there. (Solar energy is very developed in our country, and in general, at the level of Europe, Armenia has the best solar zone). With the received gas, we will be able to cover our domestic demand at a very cheap price,” commented Karapetyan.

He also mentioned that if they come to power and implement the program, for example, the gas tariff will be subsidized for pensioners.

“There will be subsidies also for those regions of RA where gas is mined for 5-6 months, for example, in Aparan,” added Karapetyan.

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“I say that the people of Armenia should have an alternative: to be a member of the EAEU or to be a member of the European Union. But I will not decide that. The citizen of Armenia will decide that, you will decide. My point is that you have alternatives, and you have those alternatives. Our colleagues who respond to this with threats, even if hidden, are acting against themselves,” the Prime Minister of Armenia announced during the pre-election campaign.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s latest statement that the Armenian people should have an “alternative” to be in the EAEU or in the European Union should sound to any person with common sense and basic memory as a signal of another pending national disaster. Because in 2018, the same person was whining in the public squares that he will not make any decisions behind the backs of the people, conduct any secret negotiations, and not cede an inch of land on the issue of Artsakh. And then what happened? At night, away from the eyes of the people, he signed the capitulation paper of November 9, and then recognized Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan without a referendum and without asking the people’s opinion. This is the same person who swore that there would be no “corridor”, but then went to Washington and signed the declaration on TRIPP. In other words, he once again lied, once again he cheated, once again he wrapped his own political incompetence and anti-statehood around the neck of the people under the name of “steel mandate”.

It is a fact that in recent years, the Armenian people have been living in an environment of political weeds and moral garbage heaps, where any ignorant and irresponsible person can present himself as a “defender of democracy”. Nikol Pashinyan’s entire prime ministerial biography is built on one principle: first lie, then present the defeat as the people’s choice. It is the same handwriting now. He says that the people should decide whether to be in the EAEU or the European Union. But a question arises. and which people? The same people, on whose behalf Artsakh was surrendered, on whose behalf the Armenian army was disbanded, on whose behalf historical memory, national value system, even the idea of ​​statehood is being destroyed every day.

When you hear these statements of Nikol Pashinyan, you unwittingly remember the Russian liberal garbage heap of the 90s, the era of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, when the state, army, education, historical memory were destroyed in the name of “freedom”, “democracy” and “European values”. Now the same scenario is being implemented in Armenia. The difference is that Russia had the human, territorial and military resources to come to its senses, while Armenia does not have such luxury. Armenia’s statehood may not withstand another such “democratic election”.

The funniest thing is that Nikol Pashinyan is again trying to present himself as “the executor of the will of the people”. That is, if tomorrow Armenia leaves the EAEU, if the economy finally collapses, if the security system is completely destroyed, if Armenia turns into a puppet territory of Turkish-Azerbaijani projects, then the people will be the ones to blame again. They say the people chose. They said the same way in the case of Artsakh, they justified all the capitulations in the same way. This time too, the result will be devastating: this possible step with serious economic, security and political consequences may become the last nail in the coffin of Armenian statehood. Excuse me, but this is a sick habit of putting the responsibility of one’s betrayal on the people.

In the background of all this, it is particularly disgusting how various pro-Western sectarians – Tigran Khuzmalyans, Arman Babajyans, Styopa Safaryans, Daniel Ioannisyans, political bums living on Facebook Live, Syrian beggars posing with European flags – are trying to present leaving the EAEU as a “civilizational choice”. For years, those same people convinced the Armenian people that Russia is the cause of all misfortunes, that the umbilical cord should be cut, or that the West will come and save Armenia. And what did we get as a result? Artsakh does not exist, there is no army, there is no security, but, instead, there are Tiktok Lives, hearts, European forums and pointless photo shoots.

It is a fact that the entire ideology of Pashinyan’s government is built on anti-Armenianism. To destroy the historical memory, to devalue the victories, to make fun of the national value system, to turn the Armenian people into a consumer mass that only thinks about soap operas, tiktok, bloggers and political circuses. Because it is easier to control an ignorant mass. An educated, thinking and remembering society would never tolerate everything that happened in recent years.

Therefore, on June 7, every citizen of the Republic of Armenia must understand a simple truth. Each vote given in favor of the “Civil Agreement” party is not an ordinary political election, but a vote for the ultimate disintegration of the statehood of Armenia. And those who decide not to go to the polling station will actually support this destructive process.

Source: Armenian Public Tribunal

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We must have a leadership that will not humiliate our military to please our enemies. Arman Tatoyan, the prime ministerial candidate of the “Wings of Unity” party, said this on the occasion of today’s military parade.

“We must have a leadership that will not humiliate our military to please the enemies. The current Prime Minister and his entourage, who humiliate our soldiers and their families every day, are trying to hide their 6-year failures behind them. In 6 years we had 3 wars, 3 defeats and the second Armenian Genocide. June 7 is the day to liberate our country.”

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The Russian Embassy in Armenia congratulated on the Republic Day of Armenia. It is said in the congratulatory speech of the embassy:

“We congratulate the people of Armenia on the Republic Day.

We wish you well-being, prosperity and all the best.”

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Today, starting from a moment of the holiday, I get the same question from many journalists: have you heard the Prime Minister’s statement and what will be your reaction?

Since at that moment we were participating in the celebrations dedicated to the council of the day in Aparan, I promised to listen and respond later. I listened and honestly a simple human desire arose in me. in the near future, to have such a prime minister, whose wordings can be discreetly and meaningfully responded to, debated, presented with arguments, and counterarguments heard.

And now I ask my fellow journalists a question: how should I react to Nikol Pashinyan’s 2-minute monologue today? Can you suggest good options, I don’t mind.

We are talking about the program, problems, solutions, taking away, killing, hurting. We are talking about internal solidarity, he calls everyone a robber, spy, thief and bandit. We are talking about the agenda of moving the country forward, and what he is proposing is the same as 8 years ago: arrest, imprison, put in cages, etc.

I am sorry that this is today’s reality.

Iveta Tonoyan, speaker of the PAP president, deputy candidate

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What does it mean to raise the price of gas in Armenia? It means making Armenia’s economy completely dependent on Azerbaijan. It is not clear that Azerbaijani gas will be the “alternative”. Now, even if Azerbaijan will provide cheap gas to Armenia, isn’t it clear that it will not be done with charity? It is natural that he will do it with political strategic interest:

And what is the strategic problem of Azerbaijan? State absorption of Armenia. First of all, it implies economy, because say or do what you want, but the nature and logic of the state is the economy, the economic concept.

Now, if our economy comes under the “care” of Azerbaijan, I think it is not difficult to imagine the further “development” of that situation. Azerbaijan will give cheap gas, in return, of course, receiving strategic economic “wealths” from Armenia.

This is what the so-called Armenian-American Memorandum on Rare Fossils is about. if you think that the USA is interested in Syunik in that sense, you are wrong, to say the least. Syunik reserves are not enough to interest the USA. Azerbaijan is interested in them. The US is the “mediator” in both road and other issues. As the way was given de facto to Azerbaijan with US packaging, so it will be in the case of rare minerals. The US will simply get its so-called “commission” price from all of this, and of course the more global political arrangement with Azerbaijan, which is already a larger and strategically significant region in Central Asia. and resource calculation.

Analyst Hakob Badalyan

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