100 Years Later the Dashnaktsutyun has No Tasks Left. Konjoryan to the Opposition

The opposition once again does not betray its identity and is not sincere. I remember when you brought a project to create a permanent commission on the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh, and at that time, you accused us, saying that you brought it to protect Karabakh. What happened later? Your representatives went and dissolved Karabakh. Now you are presenting a project to criminalize the denial of genocide supposedly to protect those who are trying to deny it. It is clear, right, what your goal is?

This was stated by Hayk Konjoryan, the head of the Civil Contract faction in the National Assembly, referring to the opposition's proposed draft regarding the public denial of the Armenian Genocide and other recognized genocides or crimes against humanity by the Republic of Armenia or internationally. In this context, Konjoryan recalled one of the speeches of the Prime Minister of Armenia, where Nikol Pashinyan stated that there should be self-examination, one should look at the past and understand what has happened to us, the goal of which should be to prevent the mistakes that have led to disastrous outcomes from reoccurring.

“This is called self-examination. I think someone has hacked the function of your opposition's self-examination and broken it, and there is no self-examination in your opposition. And when we say, let’s do self-examination, you say, wait a minute, they want to steal our identity from us,” he said.

Konjoryan recalled that in the 1920s, Hovhannes Kajaznuni also called for self-examination in his book "The Dashnaktsutyun has No Tasks Left," then quoted a few excerpts from the book: "Kajaznuni says: 'It seems they found a separate mental comfort in the belief that the Russians acted scoundrel-like towards us. It seems it was a great virtue, a great act of bravery that we ourselves were so naive and shortsighted that we placed ourselves in such a position that anyone eager could deceive, abandon, betray, or massacre us.'”

What does Kajaznuni say? He says, let’s understand how such a disaster happened to us so that later this same disaster does not happen to us again. And coincidentally, he does this self-examination in a book called "The Dashnaktsutyun has No Tasks Left." And I want to conclude my speech by saying: Yes, 100 years later, the Dashnaktsutyun has no tasks left again,” Konjoryan stated.