Acting PM Pashinyan has plan to liquidate Armenian statehood, says opposition party leader

News.am, Armenia

YEREVAN. – Under the names of “delimitation” and “demarcation,” acting PM Nikol Pashinyan wants to dispossess Armenia of Armenians through genocide. Opposition Yerkir Tsirani party leader Zaruhi Postanjyan, who is a lawyer by profession, stated about this to a press conference on Saturday.

"It is unequivocal that the November 9 statement was aimed at dispossessing Armenians of the Armenian soil. As this process is not fully implemented, additional documents—which he [Pashinyan] must sign—are also needed for the full implementation of this process.

We [today’s Armenia] are not the legal successor of Soviet Armenia. We have had two Armenian statehoods until November 9—some part recognized, some part, not. Even if Armenia was not recognizing the Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)] Republic, we were a united federal statehood. Nikol Pashinyan has a plan to liquidate not only our Armenian statehood, but, also, has started to implement the program of mixed population—population with Turks [i.e., Azerbaijanis]—in our territory, in the Armenian statehood," she said.

According to Postanjyan, after dispossessing the main part of Artsakh of the Armenians, now Pashinyan has moved on to dispossessing Armenia proper of the Armenians.

She noted that at the beginning of the 20th century, today’s Azerbaijanis were called "Caucasian Turks." "They got the name 'Azerbaijani' in the late 1930s," she added.

As per Zaruhi Postanjyan, Nikol Pashinyan was specially put in the Armenian halls of power so that he could implement the plan of dispossessing Armenia of Armenians.

According to Postanjyan, however, Armenians have no right to lay down their weapons, and they must be ready to show resistance.