No more words about the circumstances of the 44-day war. — Gegham Nazaryan

Member of Parliament Gegham Nazaryan, father of Abgar Nazaryan who was martyred in the 44-day war, wrote:

“44 Days of Tragedy

Part 27_44

The interviews and statements of recent days testify yet again to the weakness of our collective political thought.

Instead of drawing serious conclusions about what happened and why, you are acting like teenagers beaten in a street fight, doing everything to pin the tragedy on one or two people.

The worst and most dangerous thing is that you are trying to convince today’s 17, 18, 19 and 20-year olds that with good governance and correct orders the war would have taken a different course.

Why are you lying? No matter how well it was managed, no matter how flawless the orders were issued, what could we have done with our resources and without serious support?

And don’t say we would have stopped the war like in the April one. The April war was a warning, nothing more. And even if you had stopped it on October 2 or 19, later you would have had to sign what was signed on November 9.

I want to understand why you are deceiving the public. Why? Are you lying to lead us to a new disaster?
I repeat: the sooner you say that the negotiations were exclusively about the status of autonomy for Artsakh, that you were simply dragging out the negotiation process to preserve the status quo, the better for all of us.

No country in the world first and foremost Azerbaijan was not considering recognizing Artsakh’s independence, and they never would.
Of course, we could have gone against the world if we had with the United States or with Russia the same type of relationship that Israel has with the United States. We could have gone against the will of the world if we at least had Russia’s or Turkey’s economic and military power, or if Artsakh had from NATO or the CSTO the kind of support Kosovo received from NATO and the United States.

That’s all. Get serious. It’s truly shameful. You can’t act like this. You can’t treat the country and its people this way.

About the war the circumstances of the 44-day war I will neither say nor write a single word anymore. I will speak and tell only about our boys’ heroism. That’s enough. One last request: don’t deceive yourselves, your teammates, or the people.

In conclusion, I will just say: the war lasted 44 days because our boys are eagles and lions. No other army in the world, under such a balance of forces, would have held out even three or four days. That’s it.”