A new report on the circumstances of the 44-day war will be prepared

What is happening with the report from the commission investigating the circumstances of the 44-day war? The week began with Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan stating that all deadlines for submitting the report to the National Assembly had expired, and according to regulations, it can no longer be included in the session agenda. Moreover, he noted that the document was never formally submitted to the Speaker.

In response, Andranik Kocharyan, head of the commission on the 44-day war, insisted that the commission’s report should be included in the agenda of the parliamentary plenary session.

A compromise was reached: the Armenian Parliament will review the report on the 44-day war in closed hearings.

Discussions in the media, among experts, and on social networks suggest a conflict of interest between Kocharyan and Simonyan: they represent different factions within Pashinyan’s team, and this conflict is believed to be the reason the report won’t be presented in a full parliamentary session. However, the real issue may lie elsewhere.

On September 23, Nikol Pashinyan wrote, “Who authorized, and by what legal act, the deployment of 18-year-old Armenian servicemen outside the internationally recognized territory of Armenia after the adoption and ratification of the Alma-Ata Declaration?” In the context of the report on the 44-day war, this implies that the report should not focus on why Armenia lost the war but rather on “why we were there, what Armenian citizens were doing in Karabakh.”

Andranik Kocharyan’s report is now outdated; it doesn’t align with the “ideology of the Fourth Republic,” and therefore it should be kept as secret as possible, isolated from public attention. If Pashinyan is re-elected, he will undoubtedly create a new commission that will “dig into history” and blame everything on the USSR’s KGB, then Russia’s FSB, the Kremlin, and personally Vladimir Putin—thus creating an “ideological foundation” for Armenia’s exit from the EAEU and a complete break with Russia.

Think about it…