Armenia`s former Justice Minister criticizes Pashinyan for  threatening an Artsakh refugee

ArmInfo.  The ban on "respecting the right of peoples to self- determination" goes against the core principle of the UN Charter (Article 1, paragraph 2) and  relevant international treaties, as stated by Gevorg Danielyan,  former Armenian Justice Minister and Doctor of Law, in a post on his  Facebook.

The statement was made in response to an incident in the  Yerevan metro,  where Armine Mosiyan, the daughter of the late 1993  liberation war commander Meruzhan Mosiyan, refused to accept a pin  depicting the map of the so-called "Real Armenia" from the Prime  Minister. The incident, which took place in front of Mosiyan's young  child, reportedly involved threats from the Premier.

He noted that the forced displacement of the entire Artsakh  population, exhausted due to the illegal, nearly year-long blockade  and subsequently victimized by a large-scale war, has unfortunately  been ignored from the beginning in domestic politics and presented as  a voluntary exodus from their permanent place of residence, or an  "escape." 

"Even the undeniable fact that not only 129 servicemen who resisted  the enemy, but also civilians- women, children, and the elderly-died  in this unequal war is being ignored," the former minister added.  As  Danielyan noted, the names of these servicemen and their military  units are published on official websites. Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani  side, according to their official statement, suffered heavy losses,  192 people were killed. "Despite the fact that the theses about the  'flight (of the Artsakh people)' and the 'closure of the Artsakh  issue,' as well as the artificial subthemes underlying them, are  striking in their complete lack of logic and not worth discussing.  They provide valuable material for analyzing further developments. We  will simply emphasize that the ban on 'respect for the right of  peoples to self- determination' goes against the fundamental  principle of the UN Charter (Article 1, paragraph 2) and the relevant  international treaties that uphold the essence of the state," the  former Armenian Minister of Justice concluded.