Acting Prime Minister, candidate for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at the special session of the National Assembly, in response to MP Arman Babajanyan’s question, referred to the US President’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Pashinyan noted that if it had happened 7-10 years ago, we would all have heard that as a result of foreign policy, the impossible happened, but now there is no such thing.
“Now, on the contrary, the authorities did everything to prevent that fact from happening, but in spite of the pro-Turkish authorities ... why did the US President recognize the Armenian Genocide? I think there is one long-term, one medium-term, and two short-term factors.
The long-term factor is definitely the consistent work of all the organizations of the Diaspora and the Armenian community in the USA. The medium-term factor is Turkey’s regional policy, the dissonance that has arisen between Turkey and the United States. The first of the short-term factors is the 44-day war, in which Turkey was openly and actively involved, and the second is the fact that Armenia is a democratic country. These four factors, I am convinced, led to the US President making that unprecedented, historic decision,” Pashinyan said.
The Acting Prime Minister emphasized that what is happening has to do with the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
“If we add to the recognition of the Genocide by the US President the comments made by the Russian President, talking about the origins of the issue, the security of the Armenians of Artsakh, the statements made by French President Emanuel Macron and the processes that took place in France, including after the 44-day war. And if we add to that the second statement made by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs after the war, we will see that all the processes are deeply interconnected,” Pashinyan said.
