It is absurd to say that movement has faded away – Vahagn Melikyan 

To say that the movement has faded sway is absurd because it is dynamic, founding member of the All-Armenian Council of Diplomats NGO, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Vahagn Melikyan told Alpha News.

According to him, from the first day, the council expressed its support for the Tavush for the Homeland movement, fully aware that the movement is pan-Armenian and has attracted wide segments of society.

“We, as a council, have stated from day one that we will invest all our potential, experience, and trajectory to make this movement successful. The ideology of the movement was quite fascinating. We did not doubt Bagrat Srbazan’s sincerity, behavior, speech, high sense of responsibility, and devotion. To say that the movement has faded away is absurd for me because it is dynamic,” Vahagn Melikyan said.

He noted that over the past decade, only Bagrat Srbazan has managed to gather so many experts and NGOs at one table, regardless of political views.

“This movement is neither classical nor ordinary, one must try to go a little beyond the classics. The secret is that many broad sections of society, regardless of party affiliation, were involved in the movement. In my opinion, Bagrat Srbazan managed to unite various organizations, NGOs, professional structures, and individuals at one table. 

This worked out for a simple reason: the people who were sitting at this table understood what was being said; they understood and believed in this sincerity. Therefore, where there is truth, it is impossible for that truth not to win,” our interlocutor said.  

According to Melikyan, the Tavush for the Homeland movement is not only Bagrat Srbazan’s but also everyone’s movement.

“Difficulties and obstacles are quite possible, this is peculiar to all movements, and people are designed to find mistakes, small mines, and, having neutralized them, move forward, to the next stage much more prepared. This movement is no longer the movement of only Bagrat Srbazan; it is everyone’s movement. Keeping this in mind, we must move forward,” Vahagn Melikyan concluded.