Justice party in Artsakh calls on political parties in Armenia to press for Pashinyan's resignation
08.01.2021,
18:34
The Justice Party, headed by Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Security Council Secretary Vitaly Balasanyan, issued a statement, in which it calls on political and public circles in Armenia to press for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
YEREVAN, January 8. /ARKA/. The Justice Party, headed by Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Security Council Secretary Vitaly Balasanyan, issued a statement, in which it calls on political and public circles in Armenia to press for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
The party said in the statement that the defeatist position of the Artsakh and Armenian authorities regarding the Artsakh issue and diametrically contradictory political statements have led the world to perceive the Karabakh issue not as a struggle for the right to self-determination, but as a purely territorial dispute (between Azerbaijan and Armenia), the disastrous consequences of which are being borne today by the Armenian people.
'Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, who was not punished for war crimes and for daily bombing of civilians in Artsakh for 44 days, for the use of prohibited weapons and torture of prisoners of war, has reserved the right to control the entry and exit of Armenian or other officials in Artsakh. Amid the indifference of the international community, the complete silence of the authorities of Armenia and Artsakh, Aliyev boasts that Artsakh is "their territory" and threatens that, in the event of an official visit from Armenia to Artsakh, which will anger him, "the answer will be very tough."
(In televised remarks Aliyev condemned earlier this week the latest trip by Armenian foreign minister Ara Aivazian to Artsakh as “provocative,” saying Armenian officials must stop visiting Karabakh without Baku’s permission. “Let them not forget about the war,” he said, according to the TASS news agency.)
'The Justice party strongly condemns the unprecedented aggressive and irresponsible behavior of the political leadership of Azerbaijan and calls on the international community, the co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group, in particular Russia, which is carrying out a peacekeeping mission in Artsakh and is the guarantor of the ceasefire between the parties, to condemn such belligerent behavior of Aliyev, because the resolution of conflicts through force could be a disastrous precedent for the region.'
The Artsakh Justice party declares that the ceasefire, established by the November 9 statement, must have a political content in terms of restoring the status of the Artsakh Republic (restoration of the status quo until the conflict is resolved) and the borders, otherwise the existing problems will become a mine for peace in region.
The Artsakh Justice party is convinced that only the enemy, who is pinning new hopes on January 11 meeting (between Pashinyan and Aliyev in Moscow), will want to negotiate with the defeated leader who signed the capitulation, therefore we call on all parliamentary and extra-parliamentary political forces and the general public of Armenia to achieve the resignation of the prime minister as soon as possible."
Many Armenians demand that Pashinyan steps down because of a statement which he signed November 9 with the leaders of Russia and Azerbaijan to stop the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Under the statement, Armenia has returned all seven districts adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh back to Azerbaijan. The latter also took control of parts of the Karabakh's territory lost by Armenian forces in a war that lasted 44 days.
Late last year 17 Armenian opposition parties nominated a former prime minister Vazgen Manukyan as their single candidate for the post of interim prime minister. If elected prime minister, Manukyan will have to hold early parliamentary elections. -0-
The party said in the statement that the defeatist position of the Artsakh and Armenian authorities regarding the Artsakh issue and diametrically contradictory political statements have led the world to perceive the Karabakh issue not as a struggle for the right to self-determination, but as a purely territorial dispute (between Azerbaijan and Armenia), the disastrous consequences of which are being borne today by the Armenian people.
'Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, who was not punished for war crimes and for daily bombing of civilians in Artsakh for 44 days, for the use of prohibited weapons and torture of prisoners of war, has reserved the right to control the entry and exit of Armenian or other officials in Artsakh. Amid the indifference of the international community, the complete silence of the authorities of Armenia and Artsakh, Aliyev boasts that Artsakh is "their territory" and threatens that, in the event of an official visit from Armenia to Artsakh, which will anger him, "the answer will be very tough."
(In televised remarks Aliyev condemned earlier this week the latest trip by Armenian foreign minister Ara Aivazian to Artsakh as “provocative,” saying Armenian officials must stop visiting Karabakh without Baku’s permission. “Let them not forget about the war,” he said, according to the TASS news agency.)
'The Justice party strongly condemns the unprecedented aggressive and irresponsible behavior of the political leadership of Azerbaijan and calls on the international community, the co-chairing countries of the OSCE Minsk Group, in particular Russia, which is carrying out a peacekeeping mission in Artsakh and is the guarantor of the ceasefire between the parties, to condemn such belligerent behavior of Aliyev, because the resolution of conflicts through force could be a disastrous precedent for the region.'
The Artsakh Justice party declares that the ceasefire, established by the November 9 statement, must have a political content in terms of restoring the status of the Artsakh Republic (restoration of the status quo until the conflict is resolved) and the borders, otherwise the existing problems will become a mine for peace in region.
The Artsakh Justice party is convinced that only the enemy, who is pinning new hopes on January 11 meeting (between Pashinyan and Aliyev in Moscow), will want to negotiate with the defeated leader who signed the capitulation, therefore we call on all parliamentary and extra-parliamentary political forces and the general public of Armenia to achieve the resignation of the prime minister as soon as possible."
Many Armenians demand that Pashinyan steps down because of a statement which he signed November 9 with the leaders of Russia and Azerbaijan to stop the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. Under the statement, Armenia has returned all seven districts adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh back to Azerbaijan. The latter also took control of parts of the Karabakh's territory lost by Armenian forces in a war that lasted 44 days.
Late last year 17 Armenian opposition parties nominated a former prime minister Vazgen Manukyan as their single candidate for the post of interim prime minister. If elected prime minister, Manukyan will have to hold early parliamentary elections. -0-
