Armenian Church prepares a provocation in Geneva

While the Armenian government is doing its best to demonstrate the peacefulness of its country, the Armenian Church continues to provoke tensions at the height of this policy.

The day before the start of the COP29 summit in Baku, on November 10, the Armenian Church will organize a prayer service in Geneva on behalf of the World Council of Churches (WCC) for the release of war criminals under investigation in Azerbaijan. This provocative event has been announced as an initiative of the WCC, a global Christian organization.

Initially, it seems that a kind of world prayer service will be held in Geneva's Saint Pierre Cathedral with the participation of guests from all over the world who will ask heaven for Armenia and for the villains awaiting trial for their crimes against the Azerbaijani people. However, it soon becomes clear that the prayer service will be of a local nature, that is, it will be an ordinary service, just at the request of the Armenians, criminals and separatists who want to return to Karabakh with music, from where they left completely voluntarily with far-reaching intentions, will be mentioned during it.

The Armenian community of Switzerland has found a way to involve this country in provocations. Some time ago, the Armenians called on Bern to hold a so-called peace conference on the return of Armenians to Azerbaijan. But the path to this goal turned out to be very difficult. It is much easier to play the religious card, take advantage of the fact that the WCC headquarters is located in Geneva, and show Azerbaijan that the Armenians, they say, have long arms.   

Thus, on November 10, a prayer service will be held in St. Pierre Cathedral in cooperation with the Armenian community of Switzerland (which the Armenians do not hide), during which Christians are invited to pray for Armenia, for the return of the separatists to Karabakh and for the unconditional release of the "hostages". Of course, the head of the Armenian Church, Garegin, does not expect that heaven will hear the calls and send lightning to Baku, however, as the Catholicos himself says, "this spiritual effort will raise global awareness of this ongoing humanitarian crisis and will contribute to a peaceful solution based on truth and justice."

It's funny that the Garegion has also brought some "prisoners of conscience" here, endlessly flashing in Western instructions for propagandists in connection with the COP in Baku.

The flowery words of Catholicos Garegin mean nothing even to the Armenian faithful. Nothing will change if a group of Christians, most of whom will be local Armenians, have a good evening in pleasant company with pleasant conversations to the Armenian ear. There has been so much shouting and noise, so many tantrums and smear campaigns in recent months - and what? Nothing. The so-called "Christian club" is the last trump card that Azerbaijan's opponents can use. At the same time, they want it to look like a Christian initiative, not an Armenian one. Calls for the return to Karabakh of illegally residing foreign citizens and pleas for the release of war criminals, uttered under the wing of the World Council of Churches, will sound more authoritative than if it were an ordinary cackle from the Echmiadzin chicken coop.

As for the World Council of Churches, representatives of the WCC will certainly participate in the World Summit of Religious Leaders in Baku, which will be held on November 5-6. The WCC is a large organization that unites representatives from hundreds of countries around the world, and it cannot but be represented at this forum. Representatives of the organization will certainly learn from this visit some experience and clearer ideas about us and our country. We hope that this will be the case.

Although, I must admit, one fact haunts me.  The World Council of Churches provides a platform for aggressive Armenian propaganda equipped with artificial angel wings, forgetting about its own recent history. Recall that the first action of the terrorist organization ASALA was an explosion in the Lebanese office of the World Council of Churches. It happened on January 20, 1975. Although no one was killed then, fortunately, it is strange that the WCC did not draw any conclusions from that incident. According to Armenian sources, the terrorist attack at the WCC office is explained as follows: "The World Council of Churches historically facilitated the emigration of Armenians from Armenia and prevented the return of their historical homeland to Armenians - "western Armenia"." For the World Council of Churches, this should have been a serious alarm signal.

The explosion at the WCC office was the first step towards the transformation of a terrorist group called the "Group of Prisoner Gurgen Yanikyan" into the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA). Inspired by success and impunity, the gang soon turned into an army. And this army has been closely cooperating with the AAC from the very beginning. In a certain sense, the church was and remains the headquarters of the Armenian terror. And on November 10, adherents of the AAC with a stained conscience will blaspheme, hiding behind the name of the World Council of Churches.

It is unlikely that the Armenians will be able to turn a local church service into a worldwide action, although agitprop will try to present the case in this way. By betting on the religious factor in the fight against Baku, the Armenian side is making another mistake. On a practical level, that is, when it comes to specific steps and solutions, it has never worked and will not work.

And in general, the AAC sends its complaints to the wrong address. Heaven does not help those who live by hatred and malice. The AAC is the sponsor and ideologue of Armenian terrorism, it is behind the most terrible crimes committed by Armenian nationalists, and thousands of innocent lives of Azerbaijani and Turkish elderly and children are on its conscience. So the heavens of Garegin with ordinal numbers will not hear. The Armenians should think about why, with all their connections, with all their influence and huge expenses for the lobby, with all their need and the incredible support provided by the West, the Armenians failed to achieve anything. Well, it's not that nothing at all - they still got foreign territories under the state. However, the strategic goal generated by a sick imagination and criminal intentions has not been achieved. Today, it can be stated that the Armenians have exhausted all their "historical" chances to turn illusions into reality.