Vardan Voskanyan comments on occupied territories law passed by Artsakh parliament

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Armenia – Feb 19 2022

Armenian expert on Iran Vardan Voskanyan, who heads the Chair of Iranian Studies of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the Yerevan State University (YSU), has reacted to the passage of a law on the Azerbaijani-occupied territories of Artsakh by the country’s parliament on Friday.

"According to the law adopted unanimously in the Artsakh parliament, the Baku dictatorial regime and its armed bashi-bazouks are occupants,” he wrote on Telegram on Friday.

“As for how to deal with the occupants, there can only be one agenda: to exert all efforts and energy towards their weakening, expulsion or destruction, ruling out any cooperation with them, since cooperation with the enemy occupants can only be called ‘collaborationism’," Voskanyan said.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS