People in power in Armenia burned Russian flag in 2015 - Robert  Kocharyan 

ArmInfo.  Denial of the Genocide will lead to the fact that the people who are trying to do this will be rejected and forgotten by our people. The second  President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan told journalists after visiting  the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex, where he paid tribute to the  memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

Kocharyan recalled that it was he who put the issue of international  recognition of the Armenian Genocide on the agenda of Armenia's  foreign policy. "And during my years in power, the largest number of  countries recognized the Armenian Genocide. People who did not lift a  finger to resolve these issues are talking nonsense today. Denial of  the Genocide will lead to the fact that the people who are trying to  do this will be rejected and forgotten by our people," the former  President of Armenia noted.

Touching upon the condemnation of the burning of the Turkish and  Azerbaijani flags on the Republic Square in the center of Yerevan by  the Prime Minister of Armenia, Kocharyan recalled that in 2015, they  tried to burn the Russian flag near the Russian Embassy in Yerevan,  then it was trampled by those people who currently occupy the highest  positions: the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, assistants  and former press secretaries of the Prime Minister, and others.

"If this is an unacceptable step, the question arises: are double  standards applicable to Russia and Turkey. It is simply shameful, at  least they do not have the right to talk about this topic," he said.

Touching upon the speculations by pro-government media that the enemy  fired at the house of a resident of Khoznavar allegedly because of  the burning of flags, Kocharyan noted that such claims are absurd.  "It is absurd to connect yesterday's events in Khoznavar with the  burning of the Azerbaijani and Turkish flags.  There was a month of  preparatory shelling, they were preparing, how long until they burn  the flags?" the politician asked.

The second president of Armenia also emphasized that during the war  the Armenian people suffered a heavy defeat, and this government  turned this defeat into a continuous process. "We have been in this  cycle for more than 4 years, constantly giving in or surrendering,  refusing. This is an exhausting phenomenon for our people. Perhaps,  against this background, the renunciation of the recognition of the  Genocide is perceived by many much more difficultly," Kocharyan  concluded.