Menua Soghomonyan: No matter what name and surname any Armenian leader has, he has no right to recognize Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan

No matter what name and surname any Armenian leader has, he has no right to recognize Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan. Menua Soghomonyan, a member of the coordinating council of the Hayakve legislative initiative, said this live on Alpha News.

“As part of the Hayakve initiative, we propose two additions to the Armenian Criminal Code in the section on crimes against the constitutional order. One of the additions is that recognizing Artsakh as a part of any other state on behalf of Armenia means being sentenced to imprisonment for 10-15 years. The second addition is that the international condemnation of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide on behalf of the Republic of Armenia and belittling the importance and danger of the Armenian Genocide is punishable by 10-15 years of imprisonment,” Soghomonyan said.

According to Soghomonyan, these two additions were based on the statements made by the current Armenian leadership.

“We have proposed these two important additions because we have seen how the Armenian authorities recognize Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan and refuse to recognize the Armenian Genocide internationally. In addition to the moral, strategic, and military-political aspects of this issue, it also has an essential legal component. Our constitution requires that any leader of the Republic of Armenia, whatever his name, whoever he is, whenever he is, has no right to abandon those most important national goals, because these goals are set in our constitutional and legal foundations, in the Declaration of Independence,” Soghomonyan concluded.