“It is enough for one nation to become unpatriotic,
as it will be considered prey,
and its country will be divided between its neighbors.”
Garegin Nzhdeh
The logic of the events around Armenia and within Armenia itself has far–reaching aims and consists in, following the example of the events of September – December 1920, imposing another new treaty on the Armenian people, according to which Armenia will be forced to give up resistance, defense and all the rights granted to it by the international community.
The efforts made by hostile forces to achieve these aims are as follows:
- a) daily hostile propaganda has been carried out over the past seven years (it seems that they have no other more important job than terrorizing Armenians), and
- b) enourmous financial resources (billions of dollars) spent and human losses (about 25,000 killed soldiers and officers) which directly indicate the real internal potential of the Armenian people.
The enemies of the Armenian people from outside (the grand coalition) and the fifth column from within (the Civil Contract Party and its supporters), in accordance with the pre-planned aggression, the liquidation of the Armenian Army, scenarios of imposed war and defeat are violently seeking with the threat of force and provocations to impose on Armenia a new agreement, by which the Republic of Armenia will abandon all the rights granted by the international community to the Armenian people and Armenia.
In other words, this is a new attempt to suspend the resolution of the Armenian issue, as it was done in 1920.
- Recognition of the independence of the State of Armenia (Armenian State)
The independence of the State of Armenia was recognized on January 19, 1920.
After the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference was convened by the victorious States in order to work out and conclude a peace treaty with the defeated States, which was held intermittently from January 18, 1919 to January 21, 1920.
The Conference was attended by representatives of Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Armenia, the Kingdoms of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Hejaz and other allied states. The basic terms of peace were formulated by French Prime Minister Jacques Clemenceau, British Prime Minister Lloyd George and the US President Woodrow Wilson.
In response to the demands of the Armenian Unified National Delegation, the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers adopted the following decision on January 19, 1920 and “de facto” recognized the Armenian state:
- The Government of the Armenian State is recognized as the Government;
- This decision does not prejudge the issue of the borders of the Armenian State.
In other words, the state of Armenia is 105 years old.
The recognition of the State occurs once, and this decision is not subject to change or cancellation.
- The Paris Peace Conference and the borders of the State of Armenia
At the Paris Peace Conference, based on the decision of recognizing the independence of the State of Armenia, the borders of the Armenian state (the State of Armenia) were subsequently determined:
- With Turkey – in accordance with the Arbitration Decision of the 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson,
- With Azerbaijan – in accordance with the decision of the Special Commission of the Paris Peace Conference “Report-proposal on the demarcation of the border between the State of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan” dated February 24, 1920.
It is noteworthy that the provisions of both documents – the Arbitration Award and the Special Commission for Determining the Borders of Armenia – were later also enshrined in the Sevres Peace Treaty as articles 89 and 92.
Article 89 of the Treaty of Sevres states: “Turkey and Armenia, as well as the other High Contracting Parties, agree to submit to the arbitration decision of the President of the United States of America the definition of the borders between Turkey and Armenia in the vilayets of Erzurum, Trebizond, Van and Bitlis and to accept his decision, as well as any measures that he may prescribe regarding Armenia’s access to the sea and regarding the demilitarization of any Ottoman territory adjacent to the stated border.”
Article 92 of the same treaty states: “The borders of Armenia with Azerbaijan and Georgia will be determined by common agreement of the States concerned. After the decision provided for in article 89 has been rendered, and in case if those or other interested States fail to determine their borders by common consent the latter will be determined by the Principal Allied Powers, who at the same time will have to take care of marking it on the spot.”
Following the Arbitration Award, the 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson, in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers dated November 22, 1920, emphasized: “It must be borne in mind that the new state of Armenia, which, as a matter of course, will undoubtedly include a significant part of the Transcaucasian Armenian provinces of former Russia …”.
Woodrow Wilson’s words refer to Artsakh, Nakhichevan, Gardman, Utik and other Armenian populated territories and regions.
These solutions are registered in the Registry (General Ledger) of The League of Nations and its legal successor, the United Nations, and are binding.
On December 29, 1917 (January 11, 1918), the Russian government adopted a Decree “On Turkish Armenia” (On Western Armenia) stating that “The Council of People’s Commissars declares to the Armenian people that the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Russia supports the right of the Armenians of occupied “Turkish Armenia” to free self-determination up to complete independence…”
This provision was later included in article 6 of the First Constitution of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, approved by the V All-Russian Congress of Soviets on July 10, 1918.
Chapter III, Article 6:
“The Third Congress of Soviets welcomes the policy of the Council of People’s Commissars, which proclaimed the complete independence of Finland, which began the withdrawal of troops from Persia, and declared the freedom of self-determination of Armenia.”
Nevertheless, the adoption of the mandate of Armenia was discussed in the US Senate from May 29 to June 1, 1920, which meant that the United States of America de facto recognized the right and title of the state of Armenia to Armenian territories and thereby annulled the right and title Ottoman Empire in these territories.
- Demarcation of the border between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan
As mentioned in the previous section, there are two decisions adopted by the international community regarding the demarcation between Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
These are the Decision of the Special Commission of the Paris Peace Conference: ‘Report-proposal on the Demarcation of the Border between the State of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan’ dated February 24, 1920 and Article 92 of the Sevres Peace Treaty.
It should be added that in accordance with the Report-proposal of the Special Commission dated February 24, 1920, when conducting the demarcation, demographic data on the national composition of the population as before the outbreak of the First World War were taken as the basis, as a principle.
New data on the distribution of ethnic composition in the region, obtained as a result of the crime, in this case, the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and other peoples, cannot serve as a basis for making political, legal, diplomatic and civilizational decisions.
Since “Crime does not give birth to law” – “Ex injuria non oritur jus”.
Consequently, the demarcation between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan cannot be made on the basis of the maps of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR.
That is, the maps of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces and the maps of artificially created Azerbaijan cannot prevail over the legitimate maps and decisions of the international community.
- The Republic of Armenia, Western Armenia
At the beginning of 1919, the Armenian National Congress was convened in Paris, one of the most important decisions of which was the election of the “Armenian United National Delegation” (“Delegation of an Integrated Armenia”) co-chaired by Poghos Nubar and Avetis Aharonian and the approval of pre-prepared joint Memorandum on the demands of the Armenians and presented by the Armenian United National Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference on February 12, 1919. This Memorandum justified the need to create an independent Armenian state and specified its territory, which united the seven vilayets (regions) of Western Armenia (including Trebizond), the Republic of Armenia and Cilicia.
On February 26, 1919, the Armenian United National Delegation appeared at a meeting of the Council of Ten, where it repeated the main demands of the Memorandum. On April 17, 1919, the delegation was received by the 28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, who assured that he would do everything possible to protect the territorial demands of the Armenians.
The arbitration award, made on November 22, 1920 by the 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson, includes four of the seven vilayets of Western Armenia within the borders of the State of Armenia. They are listed in article 89 of the Sevres Peace Treaty as: “the vilayets of Erzurum, Trebizond, Van and Bitlis.”
It should be emphasized that, in accordance with the requirements presented by the Armenian Unified National Delegation, the Paris Peace Conference represented two entities within the State of Armenia: the Republic of Armenia and the Armenians of Western Armenia.
Moreover, the Armenians of Western Armenia were represented with their historical and civilizational area of residence․ That is, the administrative territory of Western Armenia, which was included in the package of the Armenian Issue comprised seven vilayets of Western Armenia.
In other words, Woodrow Wilson considered the Republic of Armenia (Eastern Armenia) and the Armenians of Western Armenia (Western Armenia) as a whole, as Armenia, as the Armenian state or the State of Armenia.
Which, by the way, is the homeland of the Armenian ancestors, that is, Armenia.
- British intelligence officer Lawrence of Arabia and the Mandate for Armenia
From a large extended interview with the famous British intelligence officer Lawrence of Arabia, given in 1919 to the American journalist Lincoln Steffens, we are now interested in one paragraph.
Lawrence of Arabia states:
“… Armenia must be divided.
There should be natural resources in one part, and nothing but Armenians in the other. The mandate over the Armenians must be given to America. Armenia should go not to Britain, but to an equally powerful partner.”
Later, this program was implemented in exactly the same way in relation to the Armenian people and Armenia.
The Armenians subjected to Genocide and forced deportation were scattered all over the world, in fact, under the European and American “mandate”, and the “mandate” of Armenia was given to Russia. Here, control should be understood instead of a mandate, that is why the word mandate is in quotation marks.
It is necessary to pay attention to the year of the interview: 1919. In other words, this is the moment when the Paris Peace Conference began its work and where the issues of Armenian rights were also discussed.
It should be noted that in accordance with the program proposed by Lawrence of Arabia, the settlement of the Armenian issue, the realization of the rights of the Armenian people, and the right to the existence of the state of Armenia were postponed for about 100 years.
The current attempt, which we are witnessing, is an attempt to once again suspend the settlement of the Armenian issue.
- The First, Second and Third Republics of Armenia
The First Republic of Armenia, and later the Second Republic of Armenia, in conditions of aggression and coercion (the Alexandropol Treaty of 02.12.1920 and the Treaty of Kars of 13.10.1921) refused from the rights granted to the Armenian people and the Armenian state (the State of Armenia) in 1918-1920 regarding the unified Armenian demands, being forced to remain only within the rights and jurisdiction of the Republic Armenia, in other words, Eastern Armenia and the Armenians of Eastern Armenia.
The First President of the Third Republic of Armenia circulated the thesis “Armenia’s strength is Armenia’s weakness.”
The first, second and third Presidents of the Third Republic of Armenia repeated through official statements that they remained outside the framework of the unified Armenian demands, i.e. they renounced the rights granted in 1918 – 1920 to the Armenian people and the Armenian state (the State of Armenia) and were forced to remain only within the framework of the rights and powers of the Republic of Armenia, i.e. Eastern Armenia and the Armenians of Eastern Armenia, and defending this issue was transferred directly to the Armenian people – to the broad circles of the Armenian public.
The current Prime Minister of the Third Republic of Armenia, developing the thesis of the first President of the Republic, is pushing the Armenian people and Armenia to defeat and capitulation, through violence and the threat of force forces them to sign the new Alexandropol and/or Kars Treaties. In fact, once again leaving the Republic of Armenia outside the framework of the rights granted in 1918-1920 to the Armenian State (the State of Armenia) according to the unified Armenian requirements.
Thus, for the last thirty years, the Lawrence of Arabia programme has been implemented, while the solution of the Armenian issue has been postponed due to the fact that Armenia was not strong enough to defend its rights.
This is a blatant lie, launched in order to carefully conceal the truth.
Details on this are given in the following sections.
- The Declaration of Independence of Armenia
The Declaration of Independence of Armenia is a fundamental legal document adopted at the first session of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR on August 23, 1990, which declares the beginning of the process of establishing the independence of the state and outlines the fundamental principles of Armenian statehood.
The Declaration of Independence of Armenia is the first legal political document that enshrines the free will and rights of the Armenian people, and is a development guide for the Armenian people (every Armenian) scattered throughout the world as a result of the Armenian Genocide.
His Holiness Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen the First blessed and anointed with special Holy Myrrh, consecrated the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Armenia.
The Declaration of Independence cannot be changed or cancelled: no one can change this fundamental document, which represents the united will of the people and enshrines their rights.
- Atrpatakan (Atropatena), Republic of Azerbaijan
The artificial state called “Azerbaijan”, the so–called Republic of Azerbaijan, was established in May 1918 and has nothing to do with one of the oldest states in the region, Atrpatakan.
As all encyclopedias indicate: “Atrpatakan (Atropatene) or the Medes Atropatene, Small Medes is a historical region and an ancient state in the northwest of modern Iran. It roughly corresponds to the territory of Iranian Azerbaijan”.
The Iranian name of Atropatene is the oldest name known to science for the territory of the Western Caspian Sea, which has come down to us from Greek sources. Afterwards, it was modified, taking the form “Aderbadagan” from the Persians, “Atrpatakan” from the Armenians, “Aderbayjan” from the Arabs, and “Azerbaijan” meaning “the country of fire”, which was associated with the widespread fire worship here.
In the first half of the 2nd century BC, in the wars with the Armenian king Artashes I, Atropatene lost significant territories in the north, namely its Caspian coast, Favnitida and southeastern Vaspurakan (east from the Lake Van), which have since been ceded to Greater Armenia.
During the reign of Ariobarzanes, an ally of Rome, Octavian Augustus gave him the royal crown of Armenia, but he was able to reign for only 2 years, from 2 to 4 A.D.
After the death of Ariobarzanes, the Romans handed over the royal crown of Armenia to Ariobarzanes’ son, Artavazd II, who also became the king of Armenia under the name Artavazd III. At the beginning of the 1st century A.D., the Parthian king Artaban II made his son king of Atropatene, and later all the kings of the country descended from the Arsacid family. After the fall of the Arsacid dynasty, Atropatene became part of the Sassanid state.
In the middle of the 7th century (between 639 and 643) Atropatene was conquered by the Arab Caliphate and formed a separate province within it with its capital in the city of Ardabil. It was one of the religious centers of Persia. According to some legends, the city of Urmia was considered the birthplace of the Prophet Zarathustra”.
As noted at the beginning, the so-called Republic of Azerbaijan was established only in May 1918 as a result of the political changes occurred after the First World War and the collapse of the Russian Empire.
On May 26, 1918, when the Transcaucasian Sejm took the decision on the self-dissolution and disintegration of the Transcaucasian Democratic Federal Republic, the independent states of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan were formed.
On the same day, May 26, 1918, the Georgian Democratic Republic was proclaimed. On May 28, 1918, the Azerbaijani faction declared independence and the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and after that, on the same day, May 28, 1918, the Armenian faction in the Transcaucasian Sejm supported the idea of creating a separate Armenian state and proclaimed the independence of the Republic of Armenia.
The Republic of Armenia claimed the territory of the Erivan Governorate (including Nakhichevan) and parts of the historical Armenian-populated territories of other provinces of the former Russian Empire (Artsakh, including Nagorno-Karabakh and Javakhk), which roughly corresponded to historical Eastern Armenia.
The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic claimed the territories of the former Baku and Elizavetpol provinces, including areas with mixed populations – the historical Armenian territories of Karabakh and Zangezur.
The independence of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan was short-term and after the establishment of Soviet power in the region in 1920-1921, these republics became the part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (USSR) in 1922.
After the establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan and the formation of the Azerbaijan SSR, through the efforts of the Bolsheviks, represented by Lenin and Stalin based on their political goals signed the illegal Moscow and Kars treaties, as well as adopted the illegal decision of the Caucasian Bureau of the RCP(b) according to which original Armenian historical territories of Artsakh (including Nagorny, Flat and Northern Karabakh) and Nakhichevan were transferred to the Azerbaijan SSR.
As General Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Southern Russia, who fought against the Bolsheviks during the Civil War, wrote in his book “Essays on the Russian Troubles”: “Everything in the Republic of Azerbaijan was artificial, “not real,” starting with the name taken from one of the provinces of Persia. An artificial territory that embraced the Lezgian Zakatals, the Armenian-Tatar provinces of Baku and Elisavetpol and the Russian Mugan united by Turkish policy as an outpost of pan-Turkism and pan-Islamism in the Caucasus…
Artificial statehood, since these lands, which lay on the path of the great migration of peoples and were exposed to the diverse cultures of successive conquerors, were always inhabited by scattered small tribes who were at war with each other and still preserved the features of nomadic life. Finally, the Azerbaijani government was artificially supported: initially by the will of Nuri Pasha, then by General Thomson, and later simply by inertia.”
Even such an ardent Armenophobe and anti—Semite, Russian publicist, public and political figure of the late 19th century Vasily Velichko (1860-1904) in his book “The Caucasus”, published in 1904, notes: “… by their main origin, Azerbaijanis are Turkic people, Turanians, blood relatives of the ancient Oghuz, Seljuks, modern Turks …”.
Neither in the Russian Empire nor in the Soviet Union there were nationalities with the name “Azerbaijani” before 1936. In all population censuses, only “Caucasian Tatars” and “Turki” were indicated.
Thus, according to the first All–Union census of the USSR in 1926 (including in the Azerbaijan SSR), there were no Azerbaijanis on the territory of the country – as in the days of the Russian Empire, there were only “Caucasian Tatars” and “Turki”. This remained until 1936, when, by Stalin’s decision, this nationality was renamed to “Azerbaijanis”, in accordance with the name of this republic – the Azerbaijan SSR.
In 1936, old documents were seized from the Turkic population of the Azerbaijan SSR, where “Turki” (türk) was written in the “nationality” column and new ones were issued containing the newly introduced ethnonym “Azerbaijani” (Azərbaycanlı).
During the All-Union census of the USSR in 1937, the nationality “Turki” had already been replaced by “Azerbaijani”.
The President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev (in Soviet times he was the chairman of the CSS of the republic, and afterwards he was the 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan) even spoke about this publicly. In his speech at the Milli Majlis (Parliament) of Azerbaijan, he said: “… This is our fate. In the Russian Empire, we were called “Tatars”, the Russian governors here called us “Tatars”, and they recorded us as “Tatars” in their documents. After that, in 1918, they came and called us “Turks.” Glory to the Almighty. From 1918 to 1936, for 18 years they had been calling “Turki» and the language was “Turkic”. From 1936 until now, for 60 years already we have been saying «Azerbaijani” and the Azerbaijani language. What should we do now? If we don’t answer these questions, we won’t be able to adopt the law…”
We should add that many analysts call Azerbaijan a branch of the British oil company “British Petroleum”.
All of the above facts unequivocally confirm that everything in the genocidal state of “Azerbaijan”, the so-called Republic of Azerbaijan, is artificial and illegal – neither the name, nor the territory, the statehood, the nationality and the language have no relations to the most ancient states and indigenous peoples of the region.
- Armenian Genocide, Genocide of indigenous peoples, Pan-Turkism
The Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey began in the 1870s after the emergence of the theory of pan-Turkism. Twenty years later, Sultan Abdul Hamid II was the first to implement this theory. Later, the case was continued by the Young Turks and the Kemalists.
The Armenian Genocide was carried out during 1894-1923 by three successive governments of Turkey: the Sultan, the Young Turks, and the Kemalist, and later the Republican․ It was carried out on the territory of the Ottoman Empire, Western Armenia, Cilicia, Eastern Armenia, Baku, Shushi… Throughout the entire historical area of the Armenian people.
Moreover, the same policy of state terrorism was carried out against other ancient indigenous peoples of the Middle East: Greeks, Assyrians, Yezidis…
According to Israeli researchers, Turkey’s Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Christians, who dominated the region before its colonization by Turkic Muslims, suffered a “rapid campaign of Genocide” from 1894 to 1924, as a result of which their numbers reduced from 20 percent of the population to less than 2 percent. (Israeli researchers: Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Christians of Turkey were massacred by “30-year genocide,” Jack Montgomery, May 19, 2019)
His current successor is Turkish President Recep Erdogan.
The Musavat Party, which was established in 1911, is a follower of the policy of the Armenian Genocide on the territory of the Western Caspian region – Azerbaijan.
And since 1918, it covers all the governments of the so-called Republic of Azerbaijan up to the present day, including the current President Ilham Aliyev.
The Armenian Genocide on the territory of Azerbaijan and Artsakh was committed in 1918-2023 by the Musavat Party and the successive governments of the three republics of Azerbaijan through ethnic cleansing, deportations and Genocides of Armenians in Baku (1918), Shushi (1920), Nakhichevan, Sumgait (1988),
Baku (1990), Shaumyan, Gandzak, Utik, Gardman, Artsakh.
Moreover, the same policy of state terrorism was implemented against other indigenous peoples of the Western Caspian region: Talysh, Lezgins, Avars, Udins…
The enormous human and material losses inflicted on the Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Yezidi, Talysh, Lezgian, Avar, Udi and other peoples are the one side of these monstrous crimes, and the other one is the blatat fact that the Genocide against these peoples has not stopped and continues up to this day.
An effective way to protect against Genocide is to organize nationwide and comprehensive protection of the country and the people.
- Cultural genocide against the heritage of indigenous peoples
Along with the Genocide committed against the peoples living in the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Turkey, and the territory of the Western Caspian region, the so-called Republic of Azerbaijan, a Cultural Genocide was carried out against the national, cultural, and civilizational heritage of the same indigenous peoples.
According to official data, by the beginning of 1914, the total number of churches and monasteries in Western Armenia and the Ottoman Empire was 2,549 (including unique early Christian monuments of the IV-V centuries), most of which were robbed, burned and destroyed during the Genocide.
According to UNESCO data from 1974, after 1923, out of 913 preserved Armenian historical and architectural monuments, 464 are completely destroyed, 252 lie in ruins, and 197 need major restoration. And today there is almost nothing to restore – Turkey has systematically destroyed them.
The so–called Republic of Azerbaijan is a state whose government has destroyed and continues destroying many of the greatest ancient monuments and churches – the cultural heritage of the Armenian people.
An eloquent example of this is the destruction of 89 medieval Armenian churches, 5,480 khachkars and 22,700 tombstones, including 400 khachkars in Agulis and the destruction of thousands of medieval original and ancient Dzhuga’s khachkars in Nakhichevan in 2005.
The policy and practice of the Armenian Genocide, Armenophobia, persecution of Armenians, destruction of Armenian cultural and civilizational values, as well as the falsification of Armenian culture and appropriation of cultural values by the Governments of Turkey and Azerbaijan continue to this day.
The United Nations qualifies the destruction of cultural monuments as a realized Genocide and a war crime against humanity.
- The issue of compensation for the material losses suffered by the Armenian people during the First World War
In 1919, according to the calculations of the Special Committee acting as part of the Special Commission of the Paris Peace Conference, the material losses of the Armenian people during the First World War amounted to more than 19 billion (19.130.982.000) French francs, which today, according to a professional expert opinion, is 286.964.730.000 euros or more than 300 billion (312.791.555.700) US dollars.
So far, the Republic of Turkey has not reimbursed this amount to the Armenian people.
This compensation decision for damage does not take into account the numerous and diverse losses, including human, spiritual, cultural, architectural, financial and others inflicted on the Armenian people by Turkey and Azerbaijan as a result of the long series of the Armenian Genocide.
Turkey carried out the Armenian Genocide starting from 1894-1896 which continues to this day.
Azerbaijan started committing the Armenian Genocide in 1918 and continues it to this day.
There are two ways to stop genocide: defending the country and condemning the perpetrators.
- Pan-Turkism as a nationalistic, aggressive and dangerous theory
The theory of pan—Turkism is a very dangerous, aggressive, nationalistic theory that poses a great threat to all the peoples and states of the Greater Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia including for the Turkic-speaking peoples and states.
Pan-Turkism cannot be controlled, it is an uncontrollable theory. Pan-Turkism is capable of turning any state and region into chaos, including those mentioned above. In this sense, it is more correct to prevent the threat than to make superhuman efforts to neutralize it later.
The theory of pan-Turkism, as a dangerous, aggressive and nationalistic theory, should be condemned and banned, just like fascism. The current leaders of the two republics of Turkey and Azerbaijan, who follow the theory of pan-Turkism, should also be condemned.
Among the Muslim states, you will not find another State that encourages the Genocide of peoples, the destruction of their cultural values, and commits Cultural Genocide. In this sense, the artificial state formations of Turkey and Azerbaijan are not faithful Muslim states. Islam does not proclaims the destruction of other nations and their cultures based on national or religious affiliation.
The Caliph of the Arab Caliphate, Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (602-661), in the Сovenant he signed with the Christians of Armenia, strictly commands: “They should not be abused or oppressed. Their country should not be taken away from them. They should not be alienated from their country. Priests should not be dismissed from Christianity. Monks and hermits should not be disturbed in their seclusion, and should not be removed from their monasteries. Their preachers should not be prohibited to preach. Their homes and their hereditary lands should not be devastated. No one should remove or tear down the bells from the bell towers of their churches. That’s the law that I have set for them. But those who violate my Covenant by disobeying my commands will be transgressors of God’s decree and will suffer severe and eternal punishment”.
- Armenia’s tasks yesterday and today, the country’s defense and the protection of human rights
We do not believe the statements that Armenia, the Armenian people and the Armenian army do not have the potential to resist genocidal states and do not have friends. We understand that this is also being done for one purpose.
Both in 1920 and today, using the same methods and forms, from the standpoint of the threat of the use of force, they intend to force the Armenian people to accept the signing of treaties imposed by aggressors and genocidal states.
That is, Armenia’s tasks have not changed yesterday and today, but have become even more complicated. Therefore, the requirement that was not fulfilled yesterday should be implemented today, and in short, we must quickly and competently prepare for a comprehensive national defense and protection of the rights of the Armenian people.
It is preferable to organize the country’s defense on the model of the organization of the Swiss Armed Forces.
In the modern world, this is the only way to ensure the right of the Armenian people to existence, development and the future.
- In this situation, the entire Armenian people is a political and legal entity.
In the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were Genocides that were carried out in a particular country with the “maintenance” of order, constitutionality and other “justifications”.
Meanwhile, the true and ultimate goal of all these Genocides is the redistribution of resources in favor of usurious capital, the manifestation of which is the global financial market.
For 130 years, Genocide against the indigenous people, the Armenians, has been carried out in the Armenian Highlands and adjacent territories.
One of the stages of the Armenian extermination plan is the 44-day war against Artsakh, the blockade of Artsakh, the ethnic cleansing of the Armenians of Artsakh, deportation and Genocide.
In this situation, the entire Armenian people are already a political entity with the right to take all necessary measures to prevent new acts of Genocidal acts against themselves.
The Armenian people all over the world, including in the Republic of Armenia, using all their potential and opportunities, striving to find justice and support has the right to appeal to the international community and international arbitration authorities on these issues…
In parallel, it has the right to start a new process of national defense and protection of rights.
Such coordinated actions are vital for the Armenian people.
By becoming such a political entity, it is able to undertake a just and final settlement of the Armenian Issue, as well as ensure its fundamental rights to existence, development and the future.
- The role of the State of Armenia and HAYK in the life of the Armenian people
The State of Armenia (the Republic of Western Armenia) confirms that it undertakes to protect all the rights granted to the Armenian people by the international community.․
That is why in 2018 it was decided to send Petition-Statements to the UN, the UN Security Council and the European Parliament with a request to implement and realize the rights granted by the international community to the Armenian people.
Accordingly, on March 31, 2024, we announced that the State of Armenia (the Republic of Western Armenia) is a full-fledged and legitimate representative in matters of protecting and implementing the rights of the Armenian people, up to the “Right of Claim”.
At the same time, we declare that HAYK is a representative of the Armenian civilization, presenting all Armenians and carrying out the civilizational mission of the Armenian people.
Additional materials and documentation on the political, legal, historical and civilizational justifications presented in this package of historical documents and events will be provided by our expert structure in the form of a separate Appendix and a Note.
Martik Gasparyan
President of the State of Armenia (Republic of Western Armenia)
Tigran Pashabezyan
Prime Minister of the State of Armenia (Republic of Western Armenia)
Armen Ter-Sarkisian
President of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Western Armenia
28 may 2025
