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Deputy Chairman of the opposition Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Armen Ashotyan criticized Nikol Pashinyan for his “indescribably weak” speech at the General Debate of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly on Friday.

“Nikol’s speech at the UN General Assembly was indescribably weak,” he wrote on Facebook.

According to Ashotyan, Pashinyan should have responded to Ilham Aliyev’s lies and manipulations and revealed the whole truth about the Artsakh war, instead of making a “shaky speech”.

“After Aliyev’s statement, he simply had to re-record his video message, and if it was the new version, I can imagine how weak the previous version was.

“A demand for an international investigation into the circumstances of the Artsakh war (which I have been talking about since last October), the de-occupation of Artsakh, the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the destruction of Armenian cultural and religious heritage, Azerbaijani fascism turned into state-run politics, the direct involvement of Turkey in the last war, mercenaries from the Middle East... there was not a single word or argument in this regard,” Ashotyan said.

“Instead, he talked about "velvet revolution," "democratic elections" and "an era of peace”. Shouting democracy, he handed over Artsakh. Crying for peace, he is surrendering Armenia.

“After all this, do you think we are respected or should be respected in the world?” he added.