President Armen Sarkissian released a surprise statement on Sunday announcing his resignation.
In the statement, Sarkissian attributed his decision to the limits placed by the Constitution on the power of the president to influence policy in times of national crisis. However, an article by Hetq.am reveals that Sarkissian resigned after the independent investigative news outlet learned of h
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President Armen Sarkisian may well have been the best man to replace PM Pashinyan; now, he decided to resign. Unlike Pashinyan, Sarkissian actually does have a good command of the English Launguage. Really bad news, but maybe he’ll return and run against Pashinyan.
Of course he has to have a good grasp of the English language, you need a level one and level two English language certificate to qualify for a British passport.
You think he could have signed contracts for ownership of hotels in offshore accounts in Kitts and Nevis with broken English?
But please, tell me how he would have saved Armenia…. pathetic
The resigned president would be pursued by international police soon. He also was instrumental that Armenia failed to attack oil and gas pipelines of Azerbaijan. Mr. Sarkisian was protecting foreign interest as well as his own business interest.
That surely may be a good idea!
Its no accident that after 30 plus years of being the strongest country in the caucus, that liberated and HELD OUR OWN ancient lands, that as soon as the worst most incompetent useless traitor, Levon wantabe pretending “PM”, was installed, while tough on his fellow Armenian and a total coward to the enemy, who releases Azeri criminals while our own are being held and paraded, who purposely didn’t mobilize the army, who lied at every turn of the doomed war and still lies till this day while doing things in secret, who shuffled the military into disarray and was personally responsible for the deaths of 4500 Armenian souls as a result of his gross incompetence, who left Artsakh alone to defend itself as he views it as a burden, who refuses to even go there at the demand of the Azeri’s and even denounces our ancient lands as “not being Armenian” who blames everyone else for his incompetence including the past thieves and traitors and scorns the diaspora for his major losses and damage HE causes to the Armenian race, yet always thin skinned to anyone who calls him out. Yes that is Nikol Pashinyan. Hes not stealing anything. He is just giving it away to Turks as a way to Armenia’s prosperity at his core plan. What a plan. Cant fix this kind of treasonous stupidity. He needs to be rid. He is to blame.
@ Papken, Sarkisian wasn’t the one in charge of the Army. Blame the non mobilization of the army, the constant reshuffling and the orders NOT TO Shoot on the useless traitor PM who wanted to purposely lose. Pashinian’s idea all along was to give Armenian lands back, sacrifice Artsakh to Azerbaijan in a scheme for future prosperity and peace. As if its his to give away. As if that has ever worked with Turks. And he lied about it all the way through the war. Why is there no accounting of the war? You know there wont be. Pashinayn doesn’t even go to Artsakh and show his face. This at the request of Azerbaijan. The blame for the loss is on Pashinyan. NO ONE ELSE.. As corrupt as Sarkisian may be, as they all were, he is way more intelligent and much more of a patriot and actually called out the traitor and his ill run ideas and secret unilateral meetings. This is just another way for Pashinyan to silence his critics so as to implement that great giveaway and pretend the loss was “not his fault”.
I hope so. Armen is fantastic: smart, a good diplomat, understands world context!
Yeah, he ain’t coming back…
Is there any politician that is not corrupt?
Least Pashin don’t steal…
Anybody would be million times better than that incompetent idiot Pashinian who has the brain of a bird. This is the man who miscalculated our strengths and weaknesses therefore, caused us to lost the war. Pashinian should be jailed. Frankly, I’m shocked that this idiot is still in power.
Prime Minters would be our prime minster for several decades.
It’s this type of emotional immaturity which is rife in Armenians inside and outside of Armenia, which leads us to lurch from one crisis to another. “Anybody would be a million times better”. Ok how about who? In what way? What things have been done well which need to be continued and what things need to be improved? Most importantly what is our role and what have we done? Are you and I doing what we are saying? Our people have had a state for less than 40 years in the last millennia, that means we can’t just relax and assume our country is matured like those in the west. It means we have to build it, physically, financially, culturally and politically. We can’t be spectators. If you think you can type on a news site and hope things will improve you have lost the plot. The same rules do not apply to our state.
Agreed 100%, Levon. Sad situation there…
Lets ask Hetq to investigate to find out how many of Armenian politicians do not have second citizenship (I mean Russian citizenship).
You guys complained about that with the old guard, but no investigation has uncovered anything.
It’s very telling that you are upset that a guy like Sarkissian is being investigated for doing something potentially illegal.
You don’t seem to mind corruption, as long as it’s sponsored by the West.
Isn’t all this gossip based on one newspaper’s article? Premature to judge.
The island of Nevis is a hotbed of offshore accounts disguised in a myriad of ways so that the true owners of the illicitly obtained money would never be found.The people who have these accounts are mostly kleptocrats, heads of states, dictators and corrupt politicians who have looted their own countries. Anyone associated with Nevis island in any manner should be mistrusted.
Former President Sarkissian was articulate and a polyglot. He had connections in many countries and could communicate with all types of world leaders. If he made millions during his private life, good for him! He would have been good for Armenia if he could have more decision making power. He always wanted to connect the diaspora Armenians to the motherland and allow them to have positions in government. I think a western educated leader for Armenia would be beneficial. We need to move away from Russia’s grip and establish business and political ties with Europe and USA. More Armenians live in the diaspora than in our homeland. We do advocacy snd fundraising and charity donations without anything from our motherland? Dual-citizen Armenians should be able to work in government and the military. Let’s be United!
Plenty of our current politicians and activists have worked or been involved in western companies and NGOs.
That has not benefitted us at all. The current immaturity is based on Western cultural issues permeating Armenia.
The last thing we need are large Western companies ruling over Armenia.
Your idea is not good, so spare us the “let’s stay united” talk. Bad ideas are bad ideas.
Advice from a neighbor; Stay United. Second Citizenship is not a crime. But Compromising the integrity of the Country is a heinous crime. Remind yourself about Pandora papers about an autocrat who bought an office in London for his 11 year old son with a price tag of 67 Million Pound, and …,
Armen Sargsyan had no business in Armenia. Armen was in Armenia to manage the situation regarding Amulsar, in case Armenians decided to exploit the mine. Armen was also in Armenia to ensure that Artsakh’s transition to Azerbaijani control went smoothly behind the scenes. The Amulsar agenda did not work out. The Artsakh agenda however worked out brilliantly. Having thus completed his task Armen was recalled by his bosses in London, from where he announced his resignation. In time we’ll find out if he even had Armenian citizenship.
PS: Armen Sargsyan had high level KGB connections throughout the 1980s. That is why he was allowed to go to London, or rather was sent to London to work as a professor in the early 1980s. However, Armen switched his allegiance after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Today, he is London’s man, which is why many of you are supporting him, because UK-Armenian relations has yielded so much “benefit” to Armenia. Nevertheless, Armen still maintains contacts in Russia and he continues to be pro-Russian, at least ostensibly.