In his press conference, Nikol Pashinyan referred to the
current situation in Artsakh. An observation was made that while people in
Artsakh are facing famine, his wife published a photo of “ajapsandal”
(a vegetable dish). Referring to that observation, he said: “There were
tomatoes, okra and eggplant in the photo. Do you mean that there is no okra or
eggplant in Karabakh in July? Why? How come?”
According to Pashinyan, Armenia provided Artsakh with proper
aid so that it could cope with the current difficult situation. As for okra or
eggplant, it is up to the people of Artsakh to grow them.
With regard to this, Artsakh NA MP Metaxe Hakobyan told ABC
Media: “It is a rather strange thing that the prime minister of the
country is always praising his wife. As if it were his job. In response to his
statements and to his wife’s “ajapsandal”, I would like to note that
everyone in Artsakh could make “ajapsandal” if there were fuel
supplies here and the transportation of food from villages to town was
possible. Unlike him or his wife, who tends the garden in suit, here in
Artsakh, everyone is engaged in farming.”
According to her, people in Artsakh carry on a
life-and-death struggle even when cultivating that very land.
“When cultivating the land, people in villages are
faced with the harsh reality every day: the enemy simply fires on them.
Villagers have great difficulty cultivating their lands. However, even in this
situation, no piece of land is left uncultivated,” Hakobyan noted.
According to Metaxe Hakobyan, Pashinyan is well aware of
this. However, it is par for the course for him to lie, and his style has not
changed, which was not unexpected, in fact.
Pashinyan also made a statement that by using the term
“Artsakh” we accept Azerbaijan’s position that Nagorno-Karabakh does
not exist. With regard to this, Hakobyan said: “As Nikol Pashiyan did not
come to power, but seized power rather illegally, with the help of forces
unknown to anyone, we witness the legislation and Constitution of Mother
Armenia being violated every day. He tramples on them every single day. While,
at the same time, he tries to charge the third president of Armenia with the
Article of Constitutional Coup. He and the other members of KP violate the
Constitution of the Republic of Armenia every single day. Surely, he cannot
understand and is not even familiar with the term “Republic of
Artsakh”. Even if he is familiar with the term, he wants to undermine its
meaning. Under the Constitution of the Republic of Artsakh, the terms
“Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh” and “Republic of Artsakh”
are identical.”
