Those who officially refused to help Artsakh in 2023 are distorting reality again – Artsakh Diocese

The Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church has responded to the statements made by President of the Armenian National Assembly Alen Simonyan.

“It is deplorable to hear such irresponsible statements about Artsakh and Artsakh Armenians from an official with an extremely responsible position of the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. Such short-sighted and pretentious words not only cannot contribute to the solution of the problems in our homeland, to ensuring the national unity that we need so much like air and water, but quite the opposite, they maximally deepen the dividing lines artificially embedded in our people.

Moreover, the people with spiritual vision and perception clearly see the root causes of such behavior. The Original Sin was not eating the forbidden fruit, but in response to God’s question, shifting the blame from themselves to someone else and not repenting. This phenomenon has been present throughout human history and its overcoming is possible only through Christianity, which teaches us to see our sin first and foremost and to be responsible for our steps. After the 44-day Artsakh war, the 9-month blockade of Artsakh, and the forced displacement in 2023, a large part of our people has taken the destructive approach of removing sin and responsibility from themselves, which was based on such short-sighted and divisive statements repeatedly made at the highest level, and the latest statement by the National Assembly President was just an update of the above-mentioned approach.

We do not consider it necessary to dwell in detail on what heroic resistance our people, who suffered the hardships of the 9-month blockade, showed on September 19, 2023, because according to the biblical saying, ‘He who has eyes to see, let him see,’ and he who is not willing to see the reality will never see it. But the greatest pain is that those who know the reality best, who officially refused to help Artsakh in 2023, do not hesitate to distort reality again, again and again pouring salt on the unhealed wounds of the Artsakh people, who lost their homeland, and also ignoring the feat of hundreds of our sons who were martyred in 2023,” the statement reads.