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Worrying information is coming from Russia. The federal service for the control of alcohol and tobacco markets, “Rosalkogoltobackontrol”, after an unplanned inspection of imported cognac samples, filed a lawsuit against “Proshyan Cognac Factory” with the demand of depriving the latter of its license to export to the Russian market. The reasoning is that they supplied products that do not meet the standards and technical parameters.

Violations were discovered, which became the basis for depriving the company of its license. The case is already in the arbitration court.

The problems related to the quality of some types of Armenian brandy delivered to the Russian market are certainly not new, they have been discussed many times, and sometimes temporary restrictions have been imposed, but the issue has never reached the point of depriving the license. The situation seems to have escalated especially after some hot heads started to declare that they can do without the Russian market without giving an account.

At the moment, there is talk about possible restrictions on the export of brandy to the Russian market. However, the problem is not only brandy, many other products face the same problem.

But everything in order.

What recently happened in Moscow was a surprise for the rulers of Armenia, who have been talking to Russia for a long time. Nikol Pashinyan, who requested the reception of the Russian President, hoped with that meeting not only to receive the support of the Russian authorities in the elections, or at least to create such an impression, but also to solve a number of complicated issues, including the sale of the railway concession management. But what happened was unexpected for many.

After the meeting, as much as Nikol Pashinyan tried to dispel the gloomy impressions and declared that the Moscow visit was successful, it is obvious that it was far from being so.  Nikol Pashinyan, who enjoys the support of the West, has lost confidence in Moscow and, as in the previous elections, he can hardly expect the support of the Russian authorities in these elections.

The Moscow visit was also unsuccessful in that it was not possible to reach an agreement on the sale of the railway concession. Russia openly stated that there is no reason to refuse the concession.

Even after that statement, although Nikol Pashinyan continues to insist that the negotiations are going on, it is clear that this is for the purpose of saving face. It is true that the railway concession management contract provides an opportunity to solve it unilaterally, but it is not in Armenia’s interests. This will not only worsen the relations with the Russian authorities, but Armenia will also have to pay a large fine for terminating the concession contract ahead of schedule. Only 30 billion rubles of investments are being talked about, which is equivalent to almost 400 million dollars.

Instead of giving up the concession, Russia is even ready to undertake the restoration of some parts of the railway. Although it does not seem to fit into Nikol Pashinyan’s plans. He would rather that Russia renounce it, so that he would have a reason to raise the issue of challenging the obligations stipulated in the concession agreement. But that didn’t happen either. And now a very uncomfortable situation has been created. on the one hand, Nikol Pashinyan’s western sponsors demand that he take back the management of the railway from the Russians, on the other hand, the Russians do not intend to give it up voluntarily. This situation is not in the interests of Armenia, but it is what the country was faced with.

And it is not only in the issue of the railway that it is so. Concerns are in many places, including the future uninterrupted operation of the nuclear power plant, as well as the extension of the future operation dates.

Most likely, very soon the manufacturers will also face difficulties in exporting some products. The warning of the head of “Rosselkhoznadzor” was about that, that the complaints against the products of plant and animal origin supplied from Armenia to Russia, which arose a few years ago, persist.

“The variety and quantity of products that are received from Armenia gives reason to assume that not all of them are of Armenian origin. We dealt with this problem both in 2024 and in 2023,” said the head of “Rosselkhoznadzor” Sergey Dankwert, emphasizing that the facilitation of access to markets within the EAEU led to an illogical increase in supplies. In another way, taking advantage of this situation, goods from other countries are supplied to Russia through Armenia, which are presented under the Armenian name.

“Within three years, Armenia has increased the supply of flowers from 36 million to more than 100 million pieces. A large amount of products sent to Russia do not reach their intended destinations.

In addition, about 900 quarantine objects were found in the cargo received from Armenia, which significantly complicates the work,” says the head of “Rosselkhoznadzor”.

This problem existed last year as well. Then it was announced that it was resolved. Economy Minister Gevorg Papoyan said that we justified and assured that the flowers are Armenian, that they are grown in Armenian greenhouses, the volumes and possibilities of which have significantly increased. But, as we can see, the Russian side does not really believe in those justifications and assurances.

Suspicions related to the supply of goods of non-Armenian origin from Armenia do not only concern flowers.

“We have seen deliveries of untraceable products, such as: cream butter, cheeses, trout,” says the head of “Rosselkhoznadzor”, reminding that the trout of the mountain rivers of Armenia cannot in any way be similar to the Norwegian one.

HAKOB KOCHARYAN

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Arman Tatoyan writes: “It is obvious that with the detention of schoolboy Davit Minasyan, the authorities are specially scaring people, especially young people, and their parents.

They want to show what “civil or political action” against the government means, that is, what it will cost people.

In the case of CP, a completely different logic applies: “power – what is needed to keep the power – citizen”.

In other words, the important thing for CP is what is the value of the government and what is needed to keep it. We need people who are in fear, who are deceived and thus keep their power. This is why a person has no value to CP.

But we must remember that we are Armenians, one nation. Each of our compatriots is important and valuable.

We must put an end to the behavior of the government, which behaves like an occupier.

Justice is coming to put an end to this kind of rule.”

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Weeks ago 168.amthe had written that a meeting was organized with the participation of Levon Barseghyan, chairman of the board of trustees of Shirak State University (SSU), founder and head of Gyumri “Asparez” club, “pro-Westerners” and young people, about which Levon Barseghyan had published asparez.am on the website with the caption “Armenian-Azerbaijani dialogue and Armenia after 2018”.

We learned that it was not a unique event at all, and that Levon Barseghyan, abusing his official position, often organizes meetings of such a propaganda nature, and in fact, brainwashing events.

Remarkable information about the organizational form and content of these meetings reaches us from the ASU. The main coordinator, as we have already informed, is Levon Martirosyan, the dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University, formerly an active supporter of the ARF, who currently has an unclear political position, perhaps depending on the change in the situation.

But the most remarkable thing is that Levon Martirosyan, after finishing his “mission” and placing the students in the meeting with the Sorosians, tries not to appear in the footage, you’re a man, what do you know, what will happen tomorrow?

By the way, SSU students told us that during the last such meeting Levon Barseghyan and other Syrians present at the meeting actively promoted the thesis of withdrawing the 102nd Russian military base from Gyumri.

In fact, Levon Barseghyan is not retreating. Having suffered an inglorious defeat during the elections of the Gyumri Council of Elders, seeing that the people of Gyumri do not share his ideas in any case, the latter has now decided to spread them among the students.

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Yerkhapah Volunteer Union has received another grant from the Ministry of Defense, which has become a tradition since 2022.

There is publicity about the 271 million 890,000 AMD grant contract in the electronic procurement system, but the actual contract, named “blank”, is empty.

In any case, let’s remind that in previous years this allocation was justified by providing the full scope of activities of the NGO “Union of Earth Guard Volunteers”.

“2020 During the war, the NGO “Union of Patriotic Volunteers” had a significant participation, having a large number of members of the organization (74 killed) and 114 wounded. In the post-war period, more than 4,000 EMU volunteers performed combat duty in various combat positions within the RA Ministry of Defense.

Taking into account that the “Union of Earth Guard Volunteers” NGO cooperates with the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, assists in the implementation of the tasks set before it, educates and trains future soldiers for the Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia, the adoption of the project will create an opportunity to ensure the full implementation of the activities of the NGO in 2025,” it was stated in the justification of the government’s decision last year.

Let’s add that until the previous one: the year 2025, Received from Ministry of Defense grant amount it was stable 234 million 638,000 drams, this year there was an addition.

This year, of course, also differs due to the fact that YCU President Sasun Mikayelyan is showing activity again after certain pauses, moreover, he is already participating in the unannounced campaign within the framework of the “happy bus”.

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Nikol Pashinyan, together with his teammates, continues to go to marzes by “campaign” bus on weekends, to present the small map he made to the citizens, saying: “Taste it, take it, this is the real map of Armenia.”

On Saturday, Nikol Pashinyan was in Lori Marz, one of the citizens asked him a very direct question: “Is peace conditioned by your staying in power, because you say that if CP does not form power on June 7, then there will be a war?”

The citizen even mocked. “I pray every day that nothing happens to you suddenly, that we don’t have peace.”

Freedom Fighter, “Van” operation commander Vazgen Sislyani By definition, Nikol Pashinyan is very directly threatening and scaring people with his statement.

“That man announced that he should hold a military parade on May 28, so won’t this lead to war? According to his words, statements, and data, such things lead to war. He says, “If I’m not in power, there will be a war”, he’s just scaring the people, so does peace in this country depend on him, that is, he should stay in power for life so that there won’t be a war? He also says to the pensioner: “If I’m not there, you won’t get a pension.” What does this mean? It’s very simple: it’s a way of suppressing and intimidating the citizen. These steps taken by this person are unacceptable to me.” 168.amVazgen Sislyan said in a conversation with

According to our interlocutor, all the steps, statements and actions of the current RA authorities are already a war hanging on Armenia’s head.

“That war will be brought to the head of the people, that’s why I hope that it will not be elected who will be elected, this is already a different issue. I hope that he will not be elected, that’s enough. There is a law in the world, isn’t there? When a president is elected, they are elected twice, he already goes to the fourth, establishes a dictatorship, and let him not say that democracy reigns in Armenia.

Let me add one more thing: for me, the parliamentary system in Armenia is unacceptable, it should be presidential and be elected at least 2 times by law,” stressed Vazgen Sislyan.

As for Nikol Pashinyan’s statements about the war and the question whether the law enforcement officers have anything to do here, because, as he said, he is trying to oppress the people before the elections, Vazgen Sislyan answered that, unfortunately, the law enforcement officers are not independent.

“He said himself, didn’t he, that there is such a judge who doesn’t do what he says, that is, our justice is not independent to do something or put the facts in front of him, the same applies to the Constitutional Court as well. The Armenian nation voted for independence, wanted to be independent, but this man has come and decided to withdraw the Declaration of Independence, he is going against the people’s choice. That person is deceiving me and citizens like me, we are citizens of this country, right?

I repeat, I have great hope that this person will not be elected. These authorities are completely on the opposite side of the idea I fought for, how can I be on their side? I can be on their side if they work for this country, our state, but that is not the case. Even the map stuck to his chest is against us: there is no Armenian of the Diaspora, of the world, there is no Western Armenia. Azerbaijani soldiers are sitting in our territories, why is it not taking them out?

In the end, this person does not lead the country, he just deceives people, we hope he will not be elected,” emphasized Vazgen Sislyan.

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Recently, the Iran-US negotiations, arranged with the mediation of Pakistan, in the capital Islamabad, essentially failed. Tehran’s chief negotiator, speaker of the country’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated that Washington failed to win Tehran’s trust. In X’s post, Ghalibaf said that his negotiating team presented “forward-looking” initiatives during discussions in Pakistan, but the United States failed to gain the confidence of the Iranian delegation.

“My colleagues in the Iranian delegation presented constructive initiatives, but at the end of this round of negotiations, the opposite side was not able to win the trust of the Iranian delegation,” the Iranian official wrote, continuing that the US understood their logic and principles, and it is time to decide whether it is able to win the trust of Iran or not.

US Vice President JD Vance also announced that after 21 hours of negotiations in Islamabad, the USA and Iran could not reach an agreement on ending the war. “We had a number of meaningful discussions with the Iranians, this is the good news. The bad news is that we didn’t reach an agreement, and I think that’s much worse news for Iran than it is for the United States of America,” JD Vance said. “We simply could not reach a situation where the Iranians would accept our terms,” ​​the US vice president noted, adding that they are leaving Pakistan with a very simple offer, which is their “final and best offer.” “Let’s see if the Iranians will accept it,” he said.

Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araghchi for his part, referring to the negotiations, he stated that Tehran participated in the negotiations with the USA “in good faith”, but encountered “maximalism”.

“During 47 years of intensive negotiations at the highest level, Iran communicated in good faith with the United States to end the war. However, when we were just inches away from the Islamabad MoU, we encountered maximalism, shifting targets and a blockade,” Araghchi wrote on his X page, adding that lessons have not been learned, goodwill begets goodwill, enmity begets enmity.

After failed negotiations US President Trump renewed his threats, stating that the United States Navy would blockade the Strait of Hormuz, blocking the path of all ships attempting to enter or exit.

In particular, President Trump wrote on his Truth Social social network: “And so. the meeting went well, agreement was reached on most of the points, except for the only point that was really important, the nuclear issue. From now on, the United States Navy, the best in the world, will begin the process of blocking all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz. He noted that at some point “they will reach the state of ‘everyone is allowed to enter, everyone is allowed to leave’, but Iran has not allowed this to become a reality, simply declaring: “There may be a mine somewhere.” Trump reaffirmed that the US will start an operation to clear Hormuz of mines. “If an Iranian hits us or a ship there for peaceful purposes, he will end up in hell,” he said.US Central Command announced that the blockade would be implemented against ships of all countries entering or leaving Iranian ports and coastal areas in the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The command added that it will not impede the passage of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz if they are going to or coming from non-Iranian ports.

And? British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that Great Britain will not get involved in the war with Iran and will not participate in the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. “We do not support the blockade,” he said, adding that reopening the strait is vital. “In my opinion, it is vital that we open the strait and that it is fully open, and that is what we have focused all our efforts on in recent days and will continue to do,” said Starmer, in whose speech there were disagreements about the decisions made by Washington. By the way, the visit of Charles III is expected at the end of this month, on whose agenda experts also predicted the discussion of this issue.

Russian analyst Viktor Nadein-Raevsky 168.amtold that a new stage of decisions and political challenge is ripe for Trump. According to him, with the failure of these negotiations, Trump appeared under three conflicting pressures at the same time: internal, external and temporal. Obviously, in his opinion, Trump cannot easily go to either a complete deal or a complete escalation.

“All this complicates Iran’s tough positioning. At this stage, Iran acts from a more confident position: active use of regional levers, refusal of agreements that are incomplete and do not inspire confidence. Tehran is trying to change the rules of the game, forcing the USA to negotiate on terms that are not its traditional. Although the negotiations were proceeding, Israel’s actions created a “parallel front” that further complicated the success of the negotiations. For Trump, the situation is getting complicated because the negotiation levers are decreasing, Iran is not isolated, the risks are increasing. there are many multi-vector economic consequences, there are disagreements among the allies, and the US’s similar positioning towards Iran does not have many supporters in the world.

Another important factor is that the geopolitical background has changed and the US pressure mechanisms are not effective in a multipolar world. Trump’s “puddle” is complicated because he is trying at the same time to maintain tough rhetoric, avoid a long-term, large-scale war, record and announce a diplomatic victory, but these seem to be incompatible. Therefore, the situation will continue with a different rhythm of escalation, negotiation attempts, change of mediators, Iran’s tough positioning will continue as long as it feels that it is not the weak side in this confrontation,” said Victor Nadein-Raevsky.

He believes that this is an extremely important and remarkable development for the South Caucasus. “Such unpredictable geopolitical developments involving two key states for the South Caucasus, one a regional power, the other a superpower, the confrontation between which sometimes develops unexpectedly, breaking universal expectations, should cause the right consequences. “And one of the main consequences is that in a multipolar world, it is necessary to act according to the current multipolar model of the world structure, not the previous one. This is a relevant consequence for Armenia as well. A superpower can have a goal and fail, that’s normal, and that’s what the Trump administration is facing,” said Viktor Nadein-Raevsky.

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On April 1, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of RA Zohrab Mnatsakanyan published an article with the caption “Armenia’s “transit moment” is much more than 43 kilometers”. evnreport.com, in which the observations, particularly related to TRIPP, we we have referred. 

Of course, after the 44-day war, the former foreign minister wrote other articles on other topics published by including, in 2022, under the title “Aggressive implementation of the concept of “Disengagement for the sake of salvation is a necessity”, which Nikol Pashinyan also talked about during the war, but in the post-war period he made exactly the opposite claims.

We will detail the revolution or evolution of his views on the status of Artsakh in 2023. submitted when the Prague meeting had already taken place and Pashinyan recognized Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan.

And although we have referred to the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan on another occasion, some of the incidents recorded during his tenure episodes in any case, taking into account the former head of the foreign ministry’s love of writing articles, as well as the fact that he served during the 44-day war of 2020, so he has his share of responsibility for the start of the war and its defeat, we consider it necessary to suggest to him what Zohrab Mnatsakanyan should write an article about today, what range of issues he should cover.

Let’s remind that in 2018 After the change of power, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia appointed Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, then in 2019 he was reassigned and continue to hold office until 2020 November 16.

In other words, he held office in the pre-war, war period and in 2020. during the signing of the tripartite statement on November 9-10, which was essentially a ceasefire document, but which contained includes:  item 9 on the unblocking of communications, referring to which, in fact, Azerbaijan and Armenia came and reached TRIPP, and about which Zohrab Mnatsakanyan recently wrote an article, it is a different matter that an attempt was made to push the Russian Federation out of this whole story.

But first of all, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan should answer the questions related to some episodes of negotiations in the pre-war period.

First, Nikol Pashinyan announced after the war. “Since 1994, that is, after the cease-fire, the negotiation process has been about returning Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan.” Aliyev, in turn, already during the war, at the beginning of October, as follows was the declassification did

“The ceasefire regime was maintained and restored for 2 years at the request of the RA Prime Minister. He asked me that the internal situation is difficult, I am under pressure from all sides, give me time and I will solve the issue. He said, “I have come with new ideas, I have erased everything that happened in the past, give me a chance and time.” I replied: OK. And what happened? After a year, he announced: “Karabakh is Armenia, and that’s it.” Well, let him say now: “Karabakh is Armenia, and that’s it.”

Now, what did Armenia negotiate before the 2020 war, were some preliminary agreements with Azerbaijan violated, what was the negotiation package in 2019, which the political opposition claims is still kept secret? Moreover, in 2019, the military and political leadership of RA made bold and “provocative” statements.

Did these affect the negotiations, if there was such a process, and what should be understood in the footnote of such statements of the RA leadership at that time, for example, what was the point of “Artsakh is Armenia, and that’s it” when Baku did not agree that Artsakh should return to the negotiation table? it was certainly not a mere display of romantic patriotism, as Pashinyan later tried to present.

Was the promise to return Artsakh to the negotiation table after the change of power a cold calculation, and what kind of cold calculation, had we reached the finish line in the negotiation process, and should Artsakh have made its final speech, or should Artsakh have been responsible for the outcome of the negotiations, and it doesn’t matter that the then president of Artsakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, was doing everything, as was Nikol Pashinyan. get it right when he decided to follow the path of secondary status of Artsakh, putting security first, which, although at first sight, did not contain danger. But we warned back then that it opens the door to the deployment of peacekeepers.

Second, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan should publicly state whether the July 2020 battles changed the negotiation situation.

It should be noted that last year the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense and Security of the National Assembly Andranik Kocharyan referred to the July battles and insist that they affected the negotiation process. Moreover, although Kocharyan pointed the “accusatory arrow” at the military, he also made an indirect reference to Zohrab Mnatsakanyan’s interrogation in the investigative commission.

“After the July events in Tavush, we found ourselves in a completely different reality. We asked Zohrab Mnatsakanyan as the Minister of Foreign Affairs: when did you feel that something changed, in the end, there were active negotiation processes? July cases somewhere need is more deep be studied – how? happened our participation that kind of nonsense to the process.” In September 2025 Factor.amAndranik Kocharyan said in an interview with

It should be noted that the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan was invited to the NA investigative commission investigating the circumstances of the 44-day war at the beginning of April 2023, after Onik Gasparyan and Davit Tonoyan, before Nikol Pashinyan.

Andranik Kocharyan assured in the conversation with the journalists that they received the answers to the questions of interest to the committee from the former Minister of Foreign Affairs.

“Mr. Mnatsakanyan presented in detail, in the first stage, during his tenure, what was the negotiation process before that, since May 18, when he became the minister, what processes were developed, he presented all the realities in several stages, including processes that, as well as the negotiation process and the atmosphere of trust with the other side, should be built,” Kocharyan elaborated.

What concrete and substantive questions were asked and what Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs during the 44-day period, answered them, including the impact of the July battles, why not whether Turkey’s direct participation in the war was considered probable or not, is not known, because the authorities keep the entire report secret.

Instead, after the July battles, on July 31, 2020, he gave an interview “Shant” to the TV company, during which he particularly emphasized.

“Turkey’s positioning in the light of these developments expresses its destructive and destabilizing policies in this region, which we have seen and continue to see in the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East. And what is happening after July 12 is an attempt, a goal, to export that destabilizing policy to the South Caucasus, which we are resisting with all possible means.”

In other words, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan confirms here that at least after the July battles, it was clear that Turkey would take a direct part in a possible war. Nikol Pashinyan understood this very well, it is a different matter that he tried through his family newspaper one day before the 44-day war. to deny this obvious truth, noting that the opponents of the authorities are “preparing a propaganda ground to involve Turkey directly in a new war”.

And it is nothing that Nikol Pashinyan himself, on his Facebook page of November 29, 2020 in the post He made the opposite confession. “At any stage, including during the Turkish-Azerbaijani military exercises, I would go and say to the Turks: let’s resolve the issue without war, they would have said: give a specific schedule when I hand over the territories. If I signed, they would say, “Nikol traitor”, if I didn’t sign, the war would start.”

It should be noted that Davit Tonoyan, the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, during his interrogation in the Investigative Commissionhad said that after the July battles, in the period preceding the war, in the context of the Turkish-Azerbaijani military exercises in Nakhichevan, “the redeployment of Turkish F16s to the city of Ganja (Gandzak) suggested that it was not all for the purpose of training.”

Moreover, Hulusi Akar was the Minister of Defense of Turkey at that timethreatened to punish Armenia, and it was even intended to implement the September 2020 war plan in Artsakh in the summer of the same year. As for the fact that Armenia’s opponent is no longer only Azerbaijan, but Turkey, the former head of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces Onik Gasparyan warned before the July battles.

Now, when Zohrab Mnatsakanyan says in the aforementioned interview after the July battles that they tried to resist the Turkish threat by all possible means, what does that mean, what countries did they use to try to counter it, and why did that “resistance” fail?

For example, immediately after the July battles, the military leadership with the ambassadors of NATO member states meetings had in order to neutralize the applicability of F16. What steps has the structure headed by Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and himself taken in this regard?

It is only known that after the July battles, Armenia had suspended The participation of Turkish representatives in the planned inspection visits in the territory of the Republic of Armenia within the framework of the SDF treaty and the Vienna document.

Thirdly, the former head of the 2023 General Staff of the RA Armed Forces, Onik Gasparyan, announced that that before the war, Pashinyan was suggested to take political and diplomatic measures to “prevent the war or, at least, to create favorable conditions for the use of the RA Armed Forces, in particular, to instruct the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs to develop a program of measures aimed at dramatically improving relations with the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (especially with Russia), and providing friendly relations with the other states of the region (Iran and Georgia).” Did Zohrab Mnatsakanyan receive such an assignment, and what was done, because we have specific problems during the war? had, which Onik Gasparyan also referred to in the same statement.

«Due to weak diplomatic work and being under siege, uninterrupted and regular provision of the necessary amount of rockets and ammunition to the armed forces was not organized effectively, as a result of which it did not give a full opportunity to compensate the expenditure of rockets and ammunition, as well as the losses of weapons and military equipment.“, said Onik Gasparyan, who held the position of head of the General Staff during the war.

Can Zohrab Mnatsakanyan answer these clear and targeted accusations?

Or, during the war, he offered Nikol Pashinyan to stop the war, did he agree with the former head of the General Staff? of assessment with the fact that the later the war is stopped, we will have less favorable conditions for the negotiation process, and in general, how did the foreign ministry cooperate with the military leadership during the war?

Or what role did he play in the development of the tripartite statement of November 9-10, 2020? The list of questions to be answered by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs can be considered long, but let’s limit ourselves to this. One thing is clear: Zohrab Mnatsakanyan has a serious responsibility in his position for not preventing the war and then ending it, regardless of whether he accepts it or not…

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