Tigran Abrahamyan and the mountaineer from the joke

There is a "bearded" joke about a climber who climbed a high mountain and now doesn't know how to get down. He was completely desperate when he suddenly saw a man sitting quietly on a stone.

"Who are you?" the climber asked.

"I am a genie capable of fulfilling any wish," the man replied.

The climber was delighted and asked to be lowered down. The genie told him it was possible, but only in exchange for sexual services from the climber. The climber hesitated at first but eventually agreed—he really wanted to get back down the mountain. In the end, he humored the man. Now, they’re just waiting for the genie to fulfill his promise.

The genie, fastening his fly, asks the climber: "How old are you?"

"Forty," the climber replied.

"Such an adult, and you still believe in fairy tales?" the genie smiled, shook his head, and left.

I wouldn’t say that this is exactly the same, but many officials from Yerevan, members of the Armenian opposition, as well as foreign politicians dealing with Armenian affairs, experience something similar to the climber's situation. They too realize too late the sad and shameful consequences of, let's say, excessive belief in their own fabricated fairy tales. The difference is that not everyone will risk admitting their own shame.

In this sense, the revelations of Armenian parliamentarian and member of the Republican Party of Armenia, Tigran Abrahamyan, can be seen almost as a "coming out." On his Facebook page, he decided to speculate on what the UN climate conference COP29, which recently concluded in Baku, gave Armenia. The very way the question is framed is, to put it mildly, touching because no one in Baku promised the Armenian side anything. But in Armenia, as we’ve seen many times, they really believe in fairy tales.

So, what came out of it? This is what T. Abrahamyan bitterly talks about. He pointed out that Armenia had two main expectations.

"First, under the active pressure of international players, Azerbaijan would return to a constructive course in the negotiation process, and it would be possible to ensure mutual understanding with minimal losses. Second, both inside and outside, there was an expectation that before, during, or immediately after this international event, Azerbaijan, as a gesture of goodwill, would release at least some of the prisoners of war held in Baku prisons," he recited the full list of Armenian hallucinations.

After that, he also engaged in some self-flagellation. Abrahamyan stated that Armenia not only failed to win anything, but Azerbaijan also used the international audience to further strengthen its propaganda against Armenia, make new demands on Yerevan, and label it an aggressor. It should be added here that Tigran stumbled into this discussion without understanding some important nuances. I should remind you that the word "label" in this context means something very specific.

For example, the Rurikids had to beg the Tatar khans for a "label" to own their inheritance. Accordingly, no one in Azerbaijan was planning to grant Armenia a "label." It’s also better for Abrahamyan not to flaunt Turkic terms without understanding their meaning. Moreover, Armenia made itself the aggressor many years ago by occupying 20% of our country’s territory and refusing to respect international law and UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.

All the crimes committed by Armenia against Azerbaijan speak for themselves better than any words could. Our country only needs to remind the world of well-known, indisputable facts—that’s all. And to believe that our country would not use the COP29 in Baku in this context too, one would have to be an analogue of the climber from the joke above.

"This conference was used not only to solve Azerbaijan's image issues but also to strengthen Baku's position as a whole," T. Abrahamyan continues to be surprised.

He complains that the US president "even thanked Azerbaijan for organizing COP29." And yet, he almost cries because "many European officials praising Azerbaijan have completely forgotten about the Armenian prisoners in Baku prisons."

Yeah. As you can see, we have a solo performance from an Armenian politician, strikingly similar to the climber in the joke. He laments the collapse of hopes for using COP29 in Baku to realize Armenian fantasies. He acknowledges that Azerbaijan’s blackmail policy has failed, just as the attempt to boycott the event did. He admits that Azerbaijan has strengthened its position in the world following the COP29 outcomes. In general, he states the obvious. Yes, our country brilliantly hosted COP29, achieving historic decisions and exposing in an idiotic light those who tried to obstruct it all. And now, they begin to complain about their fate. What should I say to them in response? The expected answer: "Such adults, and you still believe in fairy tales."