“Who said Aghdam is my homeland?” he reminded.
Eduard Sharmazanov, a member of the Republican Party of Armenia’s executive body, responded to Parliament Speaker Alen Simonyan’s recent remarks in which Simonyan claimed “RPA’s entire political career is built on lies.”
Posting on Facebook, Sharmazanov wrote: “Absurd. The Nikol-led bloc, synonymous with lies and shamelessness, accuses the RPA of lying from the National Assembly podium.”
He noted that he usually doesn’t respond to statements made by members of the parliamentary leadership, preferring to expose what he calls Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s lies. “But even lies should have their limits,” he said.
He accused Simonyan of hypocrisy and reminded him of several past statements by Pashinyan and the ruling Civil Contract party, including:
- Declaring Aghdam “my homeland,” and now claiming Artsakh belongs to Azerbaijan
- Promising to remove surveillance cameras but instead increasing them
- Opposing the mandatory pension system before adopting it
- Claiming citizens weren’t “fine material,” yet heavily fining them
- Asserting “Artsakh is Armenia, period,” before stating “Artsakh is Azerbaijan”
- Once vowing to seek international recognition of Artsakh, now abandoning it
- Promising decisive negotiations, now “kneeling” before Baku’s agenda
- Saying “we will win,” then bringing capitulation
- Calling Armenia the guarantor of Artsakh’s security but doing nothing during ethnic cleansing
- Saying “Artsakh has a future,” only to cause its depopulation
- Claiming prisoners would return in “2–3 months,” yet their number increased
- Promising “separation for salvation,” but recognizing Azerbaijani sovereignty over Artsakh in Prague
He concluded: “Know this—whether 1,000 years pass or not, Nikol and Civil Contract will remain the symbols of lies, defeat, betrayal, and denial.”
Simonyan also praised Civil Contract MPs, saying he was proud of their work and political growth over the past five years.
