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"Miatsum" Protests Protocols; Delivers Letters to Minsk Group Co-Chair Embassies
On September 25, members of the "Union National Initiative" (UNI) started from the Myasnikyan statue in downtown Yerevan and headed off to the French, Russian and U.S. embassies to deliver protest letters addressed to the presidents of all three nations. All three are Minsk Group co-chair member countries.
The letters, according to UNI member Jirayr Sefilyan, "charges these nations with manipulating the Armenian-Turkish negotiations process and argues that if the recent protocols are ratified and subsequently implemented it would lead to a new genocide."
The UNI members carried banners and chanted slogans such as, "No to the Madrid Principles", "Traitors Out" and "Union between Artsakh and Armenia", as they made their way to the French Embassy where Heritage Party MP Zarouhie Postanjyan handed over the letters.
Mr. Sefilyan argued that Armenian history wouldn’t start or end on October 13, the projected date for the signing of the Armenian-Turkish protocols. "There is a issue of frustration going on. Today we are campaigning in the public sector and expressing our views. But I am sure that there will come a time when we will rally the people and take steps to put an end to this anti-Armenian process which basically a result of the internal situation in the country."
He went on to say that if Armenia had a healthy and moral political environmental it could overcome the challenge and that the world wouldn’t have placed such a document in front of us in the first place.
When asked by reporters if he thought the government would take their protest into account, Mr. Sefilyan said that the government must take into account the wishes of the people. "We do wish to boast and say that we represent the voice of the people. No that’s not what we want to say. However, sooner or later one group or another must stand up and say just that; that it speaks for the people and that it believes the overwhelming majority of the people are against this political process."
"The protocols are already signed. The danger will come after they are ratified by the parliament," Mr. Sefilyan concluded.
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