Women for Peace proposes that May 12 be declared as Peace Day

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Ceasefire has now acquired a new sense. Azerbaijan, Karabakh and international community agreed have changed their positions on the issue, and Armenia has found itself in a deadlock," Gayane Vardanyan, representative of Women for Peace NGO, told a news conference today, adding that the organization has submitted a claim to RA National Assembly with a proposal to recognize May 12 as Peace Day. However, no response has been received so far. "We asked them to make any reply by the time we held the conference," Mrs. Martirosyan stressed.



"Despite the ceasefire agreement and our leaders' appeal for peaceful settlement of conflict, Azerbaijan still threatens us with war, leading us to a deadlock," Gayane Martirosyan said, adding that Armenian leadership cannot solve the country's problems, either internal or external. "World does not recognize Karabakh, ignoring its citizens' demand for living in normal conditions," Ms. Martirosyan said. She also noted that Armenia's not recognizing May 12 as peace day testifies to the fact that official Yerevan was unable to keep up its achievements, missing the chance of stabilizing situation in some way.



"Armenia will anyway suffer defeat, no matter what agreements it may sign," Ms. Martirosyan said, pointing out Armenia's failure to take any measures against the so-called "information warfare". "Azerbaijani press carries out certain work, but what do we do? Open any Armenian Web site on the Internet, and you'll see that none of them makes any attempt to resist Azeri media," she said. Such inaction, according to Ms. Martirosyan, testifies to the fact that Armenian media either agree or are indifferent to everything or else, they are in a helpless state.