ArmInfo. Former director of the National Security Service of Armenia, candidate for prime minister from the "I Have the Honor" bloc Artur Vanetsyan on June 9 in an interview with the "Soloviev LIVE" program called Crimea Russian.
To a direct question from Vladimir Soloviev: "Whose is Crimea?" Vanetsyan replied, "Crimea is ours." A clarifying question followed: "Armenian" ?, he replied: "Rather - yours. Crimea is Russian." According to Artur Vanetsyan, the people of Crimea, more than 95% of the population, by voting declared their desire to join Russia. "The will of the people in the referendum is unshakable. The will of the people of Crimea for self-determination must be respected by everyone. And I am sure that yes, Crimea is Russian," he said.
The leader of the bloc drew parallels, recalling that in the nineties the people of Artsakh also determined themselves through a referendum. "But unfortunately, the will of the people of Artsakh for self- determination was not supported, it was supported by Russia and some countries. The last war showed that the 3 principles that formed the basis for the regulation of the Karabakh conflict are the right of peoples to self-determination, territorial integrity, refusal to use force and the threat of its use , two of them - non-use of force and the right of peoples to self-determination - were violated, "Vanetsyan said.