Anti-state operation "Reject Serzh" actually meant  "Reject Artsakh"  - politician

ArmInfo. The anti-state operation "Reject Serzh" was actually intended to be the operation "Reject Artsakh", as noted by Eduard Sharmazanov, Board member of the Republican Party of Armenia.  The politician reminded that in a few days, on September 2, the Armenian people will be celebrating the  anniversary of Artsakh's independence.

"It is an undeniable fact that 1988-2018 were the period of triumph  for the Armenian people. And this victorious golden age was, first of  all, due to the Artsakh movement, which led to the Armenian people  gaining an independent Armenia and a free Artsakh. However, there  were forces  in the region and the globalized world,  that were not  content with this reality. Therefore, they began to "grow"  cosmopolitan and anti-state elements in Armenia, advocating for the  idea of "giving up Artsakh so that we can live well"  and attempting  to drive a wedge between the different layers of the Armenian people.  A fierce counter- propaganda was launched against the Artsakh  movement, its leaders, and the national figures and forces that had  triumphed over Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani-Turkish expression  "Karabakh clan" was put into circulation. Anti-national and  anti-state forces initiated a dirty campaign against national forces,  particularly targeting the Republican Party of Armenia and its  leader, the third President of the Republic of Armenia, Serzh  Sargsyan. Why? Because Serzh Sargsyan had clear "red lines", which  were the theses "Artsakh cannot be part of Azerbaijan" and "There is  no alternative to the realization of Artsakh's right to  self-determination."

 Before 2018, anti-state forces made several unsuccessful coup  attempts. However,  in 2018, they carried out an anti-state operation  called "Reject Serzh", using the services of several Armenian "Trojan  horses", which essentially meant "Reject Artsakh",  Sharmazanov  noted. He added that the Republican Party of Armenia and  other  political figures tried to warn the public about falling  into this  anti-Armenian trap.  However, the forces and resources were unequal.  "Even after the 2018 coup, the Republican Party led by Serzh  Sargsyan, openly declared the anti-state nature of Nikolism (RA Prime  Minister Nikol Pashinyan - (ed.). Serzh Sargsyan and the Republican  Party openly declared a fair and pro-Armenian settlement of the  Artsakh issue based on the well-known three principles developed by  the OSCE Minsk Group. However, the authors and executors of the plan  to surrender Artsakh were resolute. They actually rejected Serzh  Sargsyan's negotiating legacy and started  "from scratch". The  declared that "Artsakh is Armenia, and that's it!". Eventually, they  unleashed a war and surrendered most of Artsakh in the fall of 2020. 

Starting in April 2022, moving away from the Russian negotiating  platform and aligning with the Western platform of Charles Michel,  they recognized Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan on October 6, 2022, in  Prague.  This served as the "green light" for Azerbaijan to proceed  with an operation aimed at capturing and depopulating Artsakh in  2023. In just a few years, we lost Artsakh. Why did this happen?  Because we also did not appreciate our previous victories and  successes. After all, after April 2016, we were proud of our army and  victories. After all, on October 7, 2016, Aliyev stated that he was  being pressured to recognize the independence of Artsakh. And this  pressure was not arbitrary. It was the direct result of the effective  and strategic foreign and defense policy of President Serzh Sargsyan.  This policy was not beneficial to Turkey and the forces under  Turkey's control. There is one goal: to completely eliminate  Armenia's subjectivity," the politician noted.