Harutyun Arakelyan: Armenia must also play on international law

Armenia must learn from the Turks how to conduct diplomacy; it must also play on international law, the founder of the Arminius Orden, Harutyun Arakelyan, told Alpha News.

“We could not even imagine that in the 21st century people would leave their homes, their thousand-year-old homeland, and come to Armenia. It is ridiculous when one person decides the fate of Armenia. He is like a moth that we have to deal with. The Artsakh issue has solutions, even under these conditions. Our two neighboring genocidal states, along with committing genocide, always play on international law.

They justify their actions by saying that they are fighting terrorism. Terrorism is a serious accusation from the point of view of international law. We have always been subjected to genocide, and we have been victims, but in the end we became aggressors. Aliyev does exactly the same thing when he declares that no one told the Armenians to leave, they can live in Artsakh, peoples can coexist, etc.,” Arakelyan explained.

According to him, Armenia did not have normal diplomacy back then, always lost on the diplomatic front, and failed to consolidate its victories diplomatically. Arakelyan noted what Armenia should do today.

“Armenia must play on the same international law; it must learn from the Turks how to conduct diplomacy. The Artsakh government in exile should accept Aliyev’s challenge and say that Armenians are going to live in Artsakh. But we have to put forward our demands. Being ordinary citizens of Azerbaijan, we also have our own demands based on international law,” Arakelyan said.

In his opinion, Azerbaijan should become a federal state, like the Russian Federation and the Federal Republic of Germany.

“Firstly, the Artsakh government in exile must set a condition for amending the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan should become a federal republic, and all national communities should become subjects of the federation: Talysh, Armenians, Lezgins, and Tats. The government in exile must demand that two chambers be created in Azerbaijan. National representatives in the upper chamber must have their own quotas,” he noted.

According to Harutyun Arakelyan, people who have previously committed crimes must be punished.

“The government in exile must declare that for joint coexistence, criminals of Baku, Sumgait, Kirovabad and Khojaly must be punished. We must appeal to the International Court and let them investigate, since genocides and crimes against humanity have no statute of limitations, and Azerbaijan has joined many such conventions. We have every reason to do this,” Arakelyan concluded.