There is something I have been constantly thinking about since yesterday – is there at least someone in the Armenian reality who can remind me of any Azerbaijani (not to mention an Azerbaijani official) who had such audacity to talk about the rights of Armenians (not to mention the people of Artsakh who are fighting for their legitimate rights) in front of the audience of the country after 1988? This is what Speaker of the National Assembly of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Ashot Ghulyan wrote on his Facebook page.

“I try not to touch upon the developments unfolding around Artsakh much, and one of the reasons why is because I had a naïve desire to not deepen my current distrust in the de facto incumbent authorities of the two Armenian republics…it is naïve because there is no sign that those above us are seeking to gather and connect the broken pieces of the so-called trust. The situation is devastating, at least in Yerevan, toward which thousands of Armenians of Artsakh are looking with hope…

There is something I have been constantly thinking about since yesterday – is there at least someone in the Armenian reality who can remind me of any Azerbaijani (not to mention an Azerbaijani official) who had such audacity to talk about the rights of Armenians (not to mention the people of Artsakh who are fighting for their legitimate rights) in front of the audience of the country after 1988?

What the incumbent Prime Minister of Armenia was presenting to the Armenian public for 37 consecutive minutes and in the way that things were presented in 1937, is definitely a repetition of the justifications of Azerbaijan, with the tricks to protect the rights of its citizens by all possible and impossible means. It was impossible to not notice that, for a moment, even the reporter for Armenian Public Television, who had “practiced”, was surprised to hear what the Prime Minister was saying in response to her questions about the de-occupation of Shushi and Hadrut.

If anyone can show the meaning of ‘reconnaissance through fighting’ during the Four-Day Artsakh War in April 2016, and the logic of martial art to start ‘a real battle’ four years later and Azerbaijan’s preparation for a war by actively arming itself after ‘the catastrophe of the negotiations’, I am ready to accept the fact that I have no command of the ‘new and brilliant’ terminology in political science. However, at this moment, I have only one conclusion: “We are in a sad situation, sirs!”

Concealing one’s lack of ability to find a way out with the magic of rhetoric will not lead to any positive outcome,” wrote Ghulyan.