The diplomatic discourse of the state of Armenia has been exhausted and now the Declaration of Independence, i.e., the juridical, political and moral document of statehood—the main guarantee of the continuity of Armenianness—is up for negotiation, Director of Genesis Armenia Think Tank and Foundation Abraham Gasparyan said during parliamentary hearings.
“The issue of the neutralization of existential and civilizational threats to the Armenian people and Armenian statehood cannot be overshadowed by the imperative of national and state supreme interests. Unfortunately, in all negotiation platforms—Western, Northern, or Turkish-Azerbaijani—the diplomatic discourse of the Armenian state is exhausted,” Gasparyan said.
According to him, the failure of the state’s six-year foreign and security policy—the implementer of which is the present regime with its unbalanced, adventurous and defeatist principles—has added to the horizontal Turkish-Azerbaijani blockade imposed on Armenia, the anti-Armenian hostile rhetoric, and obvious territorial ambitions.
“The present authorities continue to talk about the Declaration of Independence—the most remarkable achievement of the political unity of the Armenian people—with sarcasm, incorrect and unacceptable interpretations, and fictitious and false theories that go against the national and state interests; and this is strictly reprehensible.
Arbitrary, distorted, worthless and meaningless interpretations of the provisions of the Declaration and the symbols of the independence, the poor steps to revise the history of the Armenian people, the attempts to devalue the idea of Armenia and Armenian under the guise of critical thinking, only corrupt public solidarity, the main condition for building and developing a state,” Gasparyan said.
