Hayk Nazaryan - Speech #5 with English Subtitles (12-04-2025)
03:00:00 02.04.2025
Speech #5
At the meeting
Following the events unfolding in our country and, more broadly, in our region, it becomes increasingly difficult for many of us to believe that we are not living on some other planet ruled only by madness. Almost every day, we witness a disturbing pattern: the more Prime Minister Pashinyan and his anti-national clique speak about the so-called "peace treaty," the "crossroads of peace," or "peace" in general, the more aggressively the tyrant of Baku threatens our nation with military force. This is only natural—because the defeated side cannot impose anything on the victorious side by begging for peace.
Our enemies are like ravenous predators, and their appetite knows no bounds. They will try to exploit this opportunity as much as possible to assert their dominance over our nation and fatherland. They want to do to us what we should have done to them 30 years ago, when we achieved a military victory in the Artsakh liberation war. They know full well that they must not miss this golden opportunity. That is why their threats will only intensify and become more frequent.
We have often heard the famous saying, "If you want peace, prepare for war," and history has repeatedly proven that this law is as stable and true as the law of gravity. We have all heard this and understand its importance—but few have considered the reverse: "If you want war, then prepare for peace." This is precisely the policy our current government is pursuing—a policy that will only harm our country.
Our region, and the world in general, remains in an era of warfare. Yet the ruling Civil Contract Party naively believes that peace can be achieved through a policy of surrender—without demonstrating any real strength. They believe they can bring peace merely by speaking about it, without taking any real action to establish it. We don’t know whether such a treaty will ultimately be signed or whether Baku’s tyrant will continue to make ever-expanding demands. But even if some agreement is signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan, it is clear that it will be a humiliating one for the Armenian state—such a "peace" will not even be worth the paper it’s signed on.
We know that in this defeated state, discussions and negotiations about "peace" with the enemy are meaningless. History has taught us that our enemies understand only the language of force. And we Armenians—being a military people by nature since ancient times—are fully capable of speaking that language, if we can once again restore our will to fight and awaken the warrior spirit within us. We understood that this is the language our enemies understand, ever since the days when Hayk Nahapet plunged an arrow into the chest of Bel, the tyrant of Babylon, and made his armies flee. They know very well that we understand this language better than they do.
And yet, Nikol Pashinyan recently made the absurd claim that we are now supposedly in a position to "raise the level of our independence and sovereignty"—insisting that Armenia is becoming a more independent country. This is being said by the very person who has disappointed and divided our nation more than anyone in recent history. This is the same person who, during the treacherous 44-day war, drove a dagger into the back of our army. That betrayal led us to a disgraceful defeat and to the signing of the infamous November 9 agreement—an agreement that, in essence, is an act against Armenian independence. This is the person who handed over all of Artsakh to our enemies on a silver platter by recognizing Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity—spitting on the sweat and blood shed by our ancestors. And this same person believes he can increase the sovereignty and independence of our fatherland.
One who renounces Artsakh cannot help but also renounce our independence—because Artsakh has always been inseparably tied to it. Had we not triumphed in the Artsakh liberation war through the many acts of heroism and sacrifice by our freedom fighters, we would not have been able to solidify our independence—not even the de jure independence we gained in the early 1990s.
A true leader who seeks to raise Armenia’s level of independence cannot forget Artsakh and sanctify the current borders of Armenia—what he calls "the real Armenia." Today’s 29,800 square kilometers were drawn in 1921 under the Russian-Turkish-Zionist treaties of Moscow and Kars. These borders were intentionally drawn so small to ensure that we Armenians could never be fully independent. This also means that, within these borders, we will struggle greatly to guarantee our own security.
It’s true that by liberating Artsakh in the 1990s and achieving victory in 1994, we had a chance to nullify those unjust treaties signed by our enemies. But tragically, that chance remained unfulfilled—because the Russian agents operating in Armenia prevented us from formalizing our victory and uniting Artsakh with Armenia, as so many freedom-loving Armenians demanded in 1988. Those protestors simply wanted to correct the historic injustices committed against us by the Turkic-Bolsheviks a century earlier.
For years, hostile propaganda tried to convince us that we could live more peacefully and independently without Artsakh—an idea that contradicts reality, because the exact opposite is the truth. Nikol Pashinyan, as a disciple of Levon Ter-Petrosyan and the one who carries on his work, has carried and spread this anti-national ideology since the very beginning of his political career. And today, he has made this ideology not only a central part of his rhetoric but the official policy of our state.
It is a thousand times more likely that such a person could see the back of his own head than raise the level of our independence. This is the stuff of absurdity—a total farce—and it’s tragic that we even need to state such an obvious truth. Pashinyan is not showing us an era of peace, as he claims, but an era of madness.
We could have strengthened our independence if, by uniting our people, we had fully integrated Artsakh into Armenia and, by transforming our military doctrine into one of active and offensive defense, crushed Azerbaijan’s army during the war. True independence is fortified only through national unity and victory—not by dividing the nation and leading it into catastrophic defeat. This regime, along with its fake opposition, operates in direct contradiction to logic and reason—and that is a sign that their time is running out.
Nevertheless, we still have the chance to reinforce our independence—if we build a truly national state, tear up the anti-Armenian November 9 agreement, revive our warrior spirit, reform our military strategy, and once again become a force to be reckoned with. Only then will we be able to find real allies—ones who will help us prepare not for so-called peace, but for war—because preparing for "peace" brings only defeat, while preparing for war brings victory.
– Hayk Nazaryan
April 2, 2025
