Can government that failed to stop war bring peace? - Vahe  Hovhannisyan 

ArmInfo. The publication of part of the memoirs of former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif 

indicates that Armenia, during military operations with Azerbaijan, rejected several proposals to suspend hostilities on conditions favorable to Yerevan. A member of the "Alternative Projects" group, political scientist Vahe Hovhannisyan wrote about this on his Facebook account.

According to his note, before the publication of the memoirs, 

everyone knew that Armenia twice during the 44-day war rejected the 

Russian side's proposal to stop the war, but it turns out that during 

the fighting, the Armenian authorities several times rejected the 

opportunity to stop the war from Tehran, thereby taking on an 

indescribable burden for the lives of thousands of people, wounded 

and territorial losses.

"This thesis becomes a key point in assessing the actions of any 

political force and personality in Armenia.  It is necessary to make 

it impossible to bypass this issue, just as it is impossible to 

calmly continue political and ordinary life, possessing such 

information that has no statute of limitations. It should become one 

of the key issues national agenda: why were proposals to end the war 

rejected?" - noted the political scientist.

He added that the revelations of the former Iranian minister raise 

new questions regarding the possibility of influence on the course of 

events by another force that did not allow the war to end. "Or maybe 

there were other motives? Finally, this question cannot be limited to 

the responsibility of one person. There is a circle of people who 

must give answers. This circle includes the then-current Minister of 

Foreign Affairs, the then President of the Republic of Armenia, who 

subsequently fled from Armenia (perhaps for this very reason), 

members of the Security Council. In other words, all those who were 

aware of the proposals and who did not raise their voices when these 

proposals were rejected, who knew what was happening and did not 

appeal to the people? to stop the catastrophe? We cannot pretend that 

nothing happened, continue to hide in invented lies in a way that 

suits us. The secret of a quick end to the war is a red line that 

cannot be crossed," Hovhannisyan noted.

He added that the memoirs of the Iranian ex-official should become a 

new agenda for Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, who is leading the fight 

for vital moral principles. "He must certainly make this theme 

central.  And this will be a real message of politicization of the 

process itself. The cost of ending hostilities on fair terms is both 

a moral and political issue. It was extremely high. The archbishop's 

key message about "internal peace" must also be based on On this 

issue, our inner world must demand the discovery of the truth, the 

truth about its disastrous recent history. Finally, another very 

specific and important question arises: can a government that has not 

stopped the war bring peace to the current life of our country? ", 

each of us individually has our own monstrous history, and pretending 

that it does not exist and continuing to live, inventing a false 

reality, will not work," the political scientist stated.