Stepanakert: Information about detention of writer Lusine Nersisyan  is another Azeri hoax  

ArmInfo.Stepanakert refutes the information about detention of writer Lusine Nersisyan, who has allegedly joined the Baku initiative "Platforms of peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan".    

"Lusine Nersisyan is not detained. These reports are another  Azerbaijani hoax. Moreover, the hoax is presented rather clumsily,"  NKR President's Spokesman David Babayan has told ArmInfo.    

At the same time, Babayan states that over the past 1-1.5 years  Azerbaijan has been conducting a hybrid war against the Armenian  side, using various mechanisms for that. "Now they are looking for  people, who are ready to join their initiative for big money. But let  us see whom they have managed to recruit. Those are four unreasonable  people, including Vahan Martirosyan, whose wife has run away because  he was trying to rape their own child. The rest of the people are not  better than Martirosyan," Babayan says. 

He notes that either villains or insane people voluntarily become  traitors. Babayan says that the process of recruitment has already  started, however, he sees no threat in it. "Quite the opposite, such  examples will show the true face of such villains and will help our  society to recover. They contribute to strengthening of our immune  system," he stresses.      

To note, Lusine Nersisyan, a writer from Stepanakert, announced  yesterday her decision to join the abovementioned platform. In her  interview to Azerbaijan-based haqqin.az, she strongly criticizes the  situation in Armenia and Karabakh, saying that Armenians are sick and  tired of the Karabakh conflict. She also speaks of "occupation of  Azeri lands by the Armenian side".       

Meanwhile, the Armenian Foreign Ministry and the National Security  Service of Armenia are still keeping silence. When asked by ArmInfo's  correspondent to comment on the latest processes around the Baku  platform, the Foreign Ministry of Armenia said that it is not going  to comment on idiocy. In the meantime, Director General of the  Russian news agency "Rossiya Segodnya" welcomed the initiative on  creation of the Baku platform for peace between Armenia and  Azerbaijan. The National Security Service, in turn, said that it has  no information for mass media.  However, sources in the Security  Service told ArmInfo that the National Security Service keeps a close  eye on the situation. Earlier citizen of Armenia Armen Virabyan  stated that he joined the platform and intends to visit Baku to take  part in the platform activities. According to media reports, Virabyan  is a close relative of Armenian Deputy Defense Minister David  Tonoyan. The media outlets also report that right after Virabyan's  statement that he joined the platform, Virabyan's brother was  detained in Yerevan. However, a video footage was posted in the  social networks, where Virabyan states that he was deceived about the  true goals of that platform and that he refused to visit Baku after  he had found out the whole truth. Virabyan lives in Germany and he  says that before finding out the truth he intended to take part in  the platform activities from the third country. He stresses that he  is against the return of territories to Azerbaijani control. To note,  Virabyan was a civil activist and participated in various protest  actions. 

According to other reports, former Armenian officer Norayr Minasyan  is going to join the platform.  However, Minasyan has already refuted  the Azeri media's information and said that he has deliberately  contacted Vahan Martirosyan, who moved to Baku last year, and tried  to wriggle into his favor, stating his loyalty to the Azerbaijani  authorities. Minasyan received a big sum of money for that, however,  Minasyan states that his true goal was revenge:  he was trying to  punish Martirosyan for the high treason. To note, Minasyan lives in  Rostov-on-Don now. Earlier he served in the Armenian armed forces and  has two criminal records.  

At the same time, the information that two Armenians - Vahe Avetyan,  who calls himself a human right activist, and Susan Jaghinyan, who  calls herself journalist, have moved to Baku, is not refuted.