VIDEO: If We Are the Problem, Let’s Leave, ‘Let Us Withdraw’, Let This People Be Saved, Let This Country Be Saved – Pashinyan

For some time now, we have been asking ourselves what we are doing wrong in our relations with Russia, whether we have done something bad, whether we have failed to fulfill any alliance obligations, whether we have made any human errors, or whether we have made political mistakes. This was stated today by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan at a press conference.

“You have monstrous perceptions of the Government and the authorities, that they are embezzling money, or doing something else. And that is normal. But we are also asking ourselves, what happened, why did this happen, should it have been this way? What happened does not correspond at all to what we have spoken and agreed upon. Probably, we are the ones making mistakes. We are making a mistake by, for instance, not appointing someone like Arshak Karapetyan, who has very strong connections in Russia, as Minister of Defense or First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces; we are ‘fools,’ how can we act this way, how can we be so irresponsible, we need to go and give another oath of loyalty to our relations for the sake of our country, our state, our people, our future… What else needs to be done? Is a resignation necessary? We’ll give it,” Pashinyan noted.

In response to the opposition's accusations that they are the reason for worsening allied relations with Russia, as they applied to the CSTO with the wrong article, the Prime Minister stated that the problem is not with them.

“In parliament, it’s clear, we say there’s no such thing, then trembling we come and open the documents, wondering if we indeed did such a thing. So what’s the problem? Could it be that we are personally the problem? If we are the problem, let’s leave, ‘let us withdraw,’ let this people be saved, let this country be saved. But then we read the correspondence from 2018 and see that we are not the problem,” Pashinyan added.

According to him, they still do not know what to do to show that the CSTO’s promised ‘red line’ for Armenia is being followed. “I do not think there is any geopolitical conspiracy in our question. We are simply asking, please, tell us where your responsibility zone is, where can we place our trust in you, show us that area. And we do not get a response,” he stated.