ArmInfo. No Armenian Diaspora exists either in Russia or throughout the world. All ties with Armenia are severed, Ara Abrahamyan, President of the Union of Armenians of Russia (UAR), told a press conference on Wednesday.
According to him, Armenia has lost its most powerful support. "The policy pursued by the Armenian authorities towards the Diaspora is very weak. The statements of the current Prime Minister of Armenia and his promises are not being implemented. The implementation of joint projects has ceased," he noted, pointing to the disunity of the Diaspora. In this vein, he noted that about 400 different kinds of Armenian organizations were opened in Russia, but none of them became successful. He conditioned this by his unwillingness to overcome the difficulties that arose.
According to him, instead of uniting and working together for the good of the Motherland, everyone is trying to discredit the one standing opposite. "There is no Diaspora today, there is no interaction with Armenia, there are no joint projects. Unfortunately, the potential of the Diaspora is not being used," the head of the UAR added.
He also criticized the investment environment in Armenia, noting that there are no favorable conditions for doing business in Armenia, nothing is being done except empty assurances from the authorities.
At the same time, Abrahamyan criticized the foreign policy of the acting authorities of the Republic of Armenia. "For example, the last meeting of the UN Security Council on Artsakh. For us, it had a negative result, no document was adopted, no resolutions, no sanctions. Our Armenian Foreign Minister did not give a worthy assessment of the current situation. Nakhichevan, why didn't he emphasize that Artsakh was never part of Azerbaijan. No work was done with the members of the UN Security Council," he stressed, once again pointing to the insufficient efforts of the Armenian side made at the meeting of the Security Council on the situation around Artsakh.
At the same time, the head of the SAR asked, someone wondered what would happen to the 120,000 population of Artsakh if Azerbaijan swallowed up the NKR against the backdrop of the policy of Armenophobia pursued by the Azerbaijani authorities.
"Today, the genocide of the Armenian people continues, and our authorities and people are its author. Everything depends on us. peace, but everything will be exactly the opposite," said Abrahamyan, recalling that today the people of Artsakh are kidnapped from their own homes, judged, subjected to deprivation without trial or investigation.
He was also indignant at the fact that Azerbaijanis freely visit Armenia, while Armenians do not have such opportunities.