Now it is very important for us to be able to turn this page over, and I believe we will be able to do it. This is what Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Alen Simonyan said in an interview with RBC, responding to the question whether Armenian society has come to its senses after the war.

“It’s very hard for Armenians to come to their senses when they receive news about prisoners of war every day and when relatives wait for their sons, brothers and husbands. It’s very hard for Armenians to come to their senses when Turkey and Azerbaijan hold military exercises at a distance of a few kilometers every month. This is a situation which simply doesn’t allow us to forget what happened,” Simonyan stated.

Simonyan also recalled that the Armenians are a nation that survived genocide and noted that the Armenians won the war in the 1990s. “We Armenians have achieved victories and suffered defeats, but now it is important for us to be able to turn this page over, and I believe we will be able to do it. I see that Armenia is on the right track. We understand that it is necessary to build peace in our region and leave peaceful coexistence as heritage for our generations. There will be small steps, but we will move towards the establishment of peace since there are no winners in wars. I don’t think the boys who died in Armenia and Azerbaijan…this situation can be referred to as victorious since we can’t bring the boys back, and it’s hard to explain this to the families. Armenia hasn’t supported a military solution in the past as well. We have always said that it is necessary to find a solution peacefully, within the scope of the OSCE Minsk Group.”