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Those who visited Armenia with good intentions, received the same attitude, while those who came to the country with bad intentions are now described as disappeared peoples and countries in history textbooks, MP Artur Ghazinyan from the opposition Hayastan faction told a meeting of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly committees in Armenia on Tuesday.

The joint meeting of the Committee on Political Affairs, Human Rights and Democracy and of the Committee on Energy Security was held at Yerevan’s Sports and Concerts Complex after Karen Demirchyan.

In his remarks, Ghazinyan underlined international political responsibility is replaced by “wide-ranging and highly contagious” populism in the world.

“For a long time, I was heading the Center of European Studies at YSU, and I have a pretty good idea of what Europe and European values are. However, I am surprised and puzzled to see today’s processes. Europe that I knew would not allow such bloody double standards,” he said.

Calling for the observance of European values, Ghazinyan highlighted that Azerbaijan and Turkey, which committed numerous crimes against humanity during the 2020 war unleashed against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) with the involvement of terrorists, came out unpunished.

“No European sanctions were adopted against them,” he said.

The opposition lawmaker charged that today Armenia is in a complicated situation.

“It is infected with the same disease, populism, but this does not mean that it will always be so,” Ghazinyan said.

Addressing the Azerbaijani MPs in attendance of the meeting, the MP stressed that young Armenian soldiers held the defense of their homeland during the 44-day war.

“Nagorno-Karabakh was, still is and will remain Armenian in the future. And this will be the holy duty of each and every Armenian living in the world,” he concluded.