Armenian Security Council Sec tells lies - Konstantin Zatulin

ArmInfo.Statements by Armenian Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan about Russia's transfer of  Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh to Azerbaijan are an outright lie, the First Vice-Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Konstantin Zatulin, said. 

"Mr. Grigoryan is an even greater Russophobe than his employer Nikol  Pashinyan, and in a number of cases he anticipates or makes public in  his language what is on his boss's mind. In this case, we are talking  about outright lies," Zatulin said.

The Russian deputy noted that Karabakh was "not only unnecessary for  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, but also harmful internally,  so he chose to follow the lead of his Western friends."

"He put Russia's peacekeeping mission in Nagorno-Karabakh in a  difficult position. This, apparently, was the condition of his new  friendship with the West, because the West does not need Russian  peacekeepers in Karabakh. As, indeed, Armenia's membership in the  CSTO or the presence of a Russian base in Gyumri.  These are,  apparently, the next questions in line, and this is not being hidden  by Mr. Pashinyan's supporters and himself," Zatulin said in an  interview with RIA Novosti.

On June 26, Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen  Grigoryan, in an interview with one of the Armenian media, accused  Russia of surrendering Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan. According to  him, the fighting with the neighboring republic took place when  Yerevan was completely dependent on Moscow. "Russia came, took  Nagorno-Karabakh from us, gave it to Azerbaijan," he said.