Pashinyan asked the director of the Armenian Genocide Institute to resign because she made a politically incorrect gift to the US Vice President
"How many people in this country have the right to shape foreign policy?"
Ilham Aliyev, Donald Trump and Nikol Pashinyan during the signing of a peace declaration at the White House. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that, at his request, Edita Gzoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, had resigned.
Answering a journalist's question about whether this was related to Gzoyan giving a book about Karabakh to US Vice President JD Vance, the Prime Minister confirmed:
"Yes, I asked her to write a letter of resignation. I regarded this act as an action contrary to the government's foreign policy course, as a provocation — and asked her to write a statement.”
Pashinyan added that conducting foreign policy is the exclusive prerogative of the government.
"If the Prime Minister of the country states that there is no Karabakh movement — what does it mean to present a book on the Artsakh issue to a foreign guest? How many people in this country have the right to shape foreign policy?” he asked rhetorically.
Genocide researchers considered the authorities' stance as "political interference" — more than two dozen scholars from universities and research centers in the USA and Europe issued a statement.
They noted "a disturbing trend to silence independent academic voices to appease political expediency."
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іван вас армянская эліта абгуляе, і не дазволіць вам узлягуць Арменію ў вашы імперыялістычныя войны супраць Азербайджана.
"ўручэнне замежнаму госцю кнігі аб Арцахскім пытанні"