European Armenian Assembly: '16 parties demanding the Prime Minister's resignation are adding water to the same enemy's mill'

“Call for sobriety, dear compatriots from Armenia and the Diaspora, sisters and brothers. The European Armenian Assembly once again strongly condemns the attack on the National Assembly and the government building, the beating and wreaking of havoc, vandalism, and criminal behavior: We condemn the barbaric attack against the President of the National Assembly, Ararat Mirzoyan, which posed a threat to his life through violence.

We firmly condemn every call and action of violence and illegality. The European Armenian Assembly expresses its deep condolences to the families of the fallen brave soldiers and civilian victims, their relatives, and the Armenian nation. The homeland is wounded today and needs immediate care, attention, and recovery. The Armenian nation needs solidarity, unity, and the reorganization of its forces as much as it needs air and water.

The only correct path to avoid upcoming calamities and to stand up again at this critical moment is unconditional solidarity alongside the authorities elected by the overwhelming majority of the Armenian people, in order to plan and address the enormous challenges we face through mutual solidarity and consultation.

Despite the selflessness and sacrifices of our brave army, soldiers, and officers, unfortunately, it was not possible to defeat the enemy and stop its aggression in this imposed unequal war, as we had hoped. Today, those so-called 16 parties demanding the Prime Minister's resignation, with their absurd protests, are adding water to the enemy's mill and are practically doing what the enemy dreams of achieving in our internal state affairs.

The tragic results of the war are the unavoidable consequence of the lack of a clear and conscious strategy among Armenian political, social, military, and scientific elites over the last 30 years of independence. The roots of defeat must be sought in the 30 years of inactivity and loss of time, which is nothing other than the previous authorities, involved in these 16 parties, being filled with the frenzy of maintaining power, amassing personal wealth, and plundering the country in every kind of anti-national agreements.

As a result, the whole nation suffered defeat: this is our collective defeat, which must be overcome as soon as possible, learn lessons from it, close that chapter, and instead open a new and brighter one.

Who does not know about the long and recent past of these and similar parties and individuals? Who does not know about their purposeless anti-national politics over the 30 years? And today, they want to shift the colossal responsibility for the defeat of the war entirely onto the current authorities while coming out clean. They will not succeed. Everyone bears responsibility, first and foremost the current authorities, who, due to unnecessary velvet approaches, failed to eliminate the devastation of the previous ones over the past two and a half years and to recover what was plundered from the people and hold the plunderers accountable.

Now is a time for everyone to awaken. The Prime Minister has presented a six-month roadmap consisting of 15 points and invites the entire Armenian nation in Armenia and the Diaspora to collaborate together. If necessary, structural changes can even be proposed within the state apparatus.

Every individual Armenian, who genuinely wishes for the homeland to heal its wounds urgently and find new paths for its future, will stand alongside the state and the law and contribute their share.

Dear compatriots from the Diaspora, it is time to organize, to self-organize. We have been deliberately kept away and deprived of the right to act and participate in Armenia's political and social arena. We have not been able to create representative bodies that would be authorized to speak and act on behalf of the Diaspora; that is why we are still orphans in the Diaspora, and known forces act on behalf of millions of Armenians as they wish.

We also emphasize and point out that, unfortunately, the blood of those who sacrificed their lives for the homeland has not yet dried, but many, whether knowingly or unknowingly, are already fulfilling the tasks of the fifth column. It is imperative to immediately introduce stability within the legal authorities, to reorganize and rearm the army, and to restore its invincible spirit.

Long live Armenia, long live Artsakh, long live the Armenian people!”
– European Armenian Assembly.