Armenian family chooses Azerbaijan over Armenia...

Armenian Yeghishe Gevorkyan, who crossed Azerbaijani border together with his family in January, 2010, does not intend to return in Armenia, he wants to leave for a third country. Gevorkyan told APA that he was oppressed by the unemployment and disappointment and left for Azerbaijan together with his wife Ruzanna, children Alfred, Gayane and Petrosia. They want to be sent to a third country.

“We are ready to leave for anywhere, except Armenia,” said Ruzanna.

Gevorkyan remembers the moment, when he took decision to flee to Azerbaijan.
“We were tired of living in poverty, being deprived of the voting right in our native city. On January 10 I went to the polling station to vote in the parliamentary elections. I could not find my name in the list. I wanted to clarify the case. How could it be that I did not find my name in the list, while I voted in the mayoral elections several months ago? Instead of clarifying the case they expelled me from the polling station. I appealed to the Ministry of National Security, but I was expelled from there, too. I returned home, gathered my documents and decided to cross the Azerbaijani border,” he said.

Gevorkyan says they were obliged to live on the salary of 26,500 dram ($60-70). Ruzanna says she tried to find a job and help her husband, but it is difficult to find a job in Yerevan.

“I was so bored that I preferred to leave my mother, brother, home and come here. The state of many families in Yerevan is so. All are fleeing,” she said.

Gevorkyan said they crossed the borders in direction of Sadarak and were under the fire by the Armenian soldiers. “They started shooting at the car from all directions. We crossed the borders under the fire, but we were received well on the Azerbaijani side. On the second day, they asked us if we want to return. Armenian defense minister came to take us to Armenia, but we told them in that time and we repeat it again that we don’t want to return. The situation in Armenia will not be normalized if the parliament is not dissolved and the president doesn’t resign. Our president was not elected by the people. If he was elected, why the people held protest actions? He broke up the people instead of talking with them. The isolators were crowded.”

Speaking about the Armenians’ attitude toward Nagorno Karabakh conflict and Azerbaijanis, Gevorkyan said Armenians are tired of the war. “Armenians in Yerevan are supporters of peace, but the president doesn’t make compromises and he thinks only about his post. There is a normal attitude toward Azerbaijanis. There was Narimanov Street in the center of the city where I lived. There were many Azerbaijanis. I grew up together with them. I didn’t go to the war. I didn’t want to take weapons and go killing people”.


/APA/