Hay Dat Central Council: Pashinyan`s desire to close the Artsakh  issue is an effort to conceal eight years of policy failures 

ArmInfo.  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's desire to close the Artsakh issue is aimed at concealing the failures of an eight-year policy that has jeopardized the existence of the Republic of Armenia.

The Hay Dat Central Council of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation  (ARF) has  responded to Pashinyan's statement on Facebook that "all  attempts to continue the Karabakh movement will be assessed by us as  an attempt to drag the people of Armenia into a new adventure, and  therefore, and within the scope of our authority and the law, we will  do everything to stop them." Hay Dat noted that the Armenian Prime  Minister is essentially ignoring the fact that at least more than  half a million Armenian citizens, through the exercise of their  voting rights, do not share his—or even the majority’s—view that “the  Karabakh Movement is over and will not continue." Those more than  half a million citizens of the Republic of Armenia have the right to  voice their views and to pursue them, even if “that process may  create problems."

 "Moreover, Nikol Pashinyan, whose party has consistently renounced  and continues to renounce everything that is pan-Armenian and  national, seeks to compel Armenians living outside the borders of the  Republic of Armenia—regardless of their citizenship—to be deprived of  the right to hold their own views, to express those views, and to  pursue their realization.  At the same time, and consistently, Nikol  Pashinyan continues his conduct of justifying Azerbaijan’s  anti-Armenian and anti-Armenia actions, characterizing the propaganda  of “Western Azerbaijan” directed against the territorial integrity of  the Republic of Armenia, as well as the Azerbaijani state’s actions  in pursuit of that agenda, merely as “mirror responses,'" the Council  emphasized.  Thus, as Hay Dat emphasized, " for Nikol Pashinyan, who  has understood nothing—or understands nothing—of history and  present-day reality, Armenian national political thought is the  reason why Turkey carried out the Armenian Genocide; why Azerbaijan  pursued a genocidal policy against Artsakh by ethnically cleansing it  of its Armenian population; and why Azerbaijan and Turkey today,  acting together, threaten the very existence of the Republic of  Armenia—threatening it, at the very least, with war—unless their  demands are met.”

Recall, the Artsakh Movement is a public movement in support of the  demand of the Armenian population of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous  Oblast for the transfer of the region from the Azerbaijan SSR to the  Armenian SSR. It emerged in the late 1980s and laid the foundation  for Artsakh's separation from the Azerbaijan SSR and its declaration  of independence.