What is happening in our country: Levon Ter-Petrosyan issues a statement

The first president of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, has issued a statement in which he noted:

“Any state leader who is not, of course, insane, strives first and foremost to create stability in their own country. There are, of course, truly insane leaders (like Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and others) who, intentionally or unintentionally, create instability contrary to this imperative.

So, what is happening in our country? Recently, Nikol Pashinyan has been responding to the legitimate demands of over a hundred thousand Armenians from Artsakh who have sought refuge in Armenia with criticisms, insults, and sometimes vulgar expressions. The latter, desperate, are knocking on hundreds of doors but find no proper response to their requests and demands, being forced to express their protest through mass demonstrations, sit-ins, rallies, and road blockades.

A similar situation arose in the 1990s with the hundreds of thousands of refugees who sought shelter in Armenia after the pogroms in Sumgait, Kirovabad, and especially Baku. Our government resolved this issue as follows: a "State Department of Special Programs of the Republic of Armenia" was established, headed by someone with significant management experience and the respect and trust of society, such as Vladimir Movsisyan, who brilliantly solved the refugees' problems in a short time, earning their genuine appreciation and gratitude.

It is worth mentioning that in 2023, Samvel Babayan had proposed creating a similar structure to Pashinyan, but it was rejected.

Thus, by rejecting the idea of creating such a functional structure, Pashinyan and his team are forced to cover their ineffectiveness with aggressive rhetoric instead of delegating the resolution of these urgent issues to a special body filled with professional officials, whose sole responsibility would be to coordinate actions and meet the just demands of the Armenians from Artsakh.

This, in fact, does not calm the Armenians from Artsakh but, on the contrary, incites them to continue and intensify their protests, thereby inadvertently deepening instability.

It is worth recalling that this is not Pashinyan's only failure. He has shown similar inexcusable and dangerous adventurism towards the Armenian Church, which was thwarted thanks to a strong public backlash. As a result, he was forced, at least for some time, to halt his divisive campaign against the Church.

Pashinyan's next provocative move was the unconstitutional attempt to nationalize the Electric Networks of Armenia (HET) and the illegal punitive actions against Samvel Karapetyan, which are also among the factors that disrupt the stability our country critically needs.

In short, Pashinyan’s hasty approach is not aimed at the much-needed consolidation of our nation but solely at division.”