Alexandre Meterissian 🇦🇲

Passionate about business, politics and Armenia. Fier québécois ⚜️ et arménien 🇦🇲

[Alexandre Meterissian 🇦🇲 @AlexMeterissian]

Publié dans @LP_LaPresse ce matin! Le spectre d'un 2e génocide arménien. Ce qui se passe présententement en #Armenie est important pour le peuple Arménien et aussi pour le #Canada
Il faut que @JustinTrudeau suive l'exemple d' @EmmanuelMacron 🇨🇦🇦🇲
https://t.co/3uClpwtJoh

[Christopher J. Khachadour Քրիստափոր Յ. Խաչատուր @ChrisKhach]

On August 6, 2019 the Opening Ceremony of the 7th Pan-Armenian Games was held in Stepanakert with ~20,000 attendees.

Nearly 5,000 athletes from 161 Armenian Diaspora communities spread across 35 countries participated in the games.

The stadium was full that day, unlike below ⤵️

[The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast @JBPpod]

Canada's Next Prime Minister | Pierre Poilievre

[#ArmenianPride 🇦🇲 @_Artaxias_]

Les Arméniens 🇦🇲 n'ont pas de gaz mais ils ont toujours plus de génies!

@ServiceTitan, fondée en 2007 par Ara Mahdessian et Vahe Kuzoyan, fait une entrée fracassante au Nasdaq !

Cotée à $71 à l'ouverture, elle termine à $101 à la clôture, soit une hausse de 42 % sur une seule journée !

Cette introduction en bourse est remarquable dans un contexte de marché morose depuis 2021. Elle marque aussi la première entrée en bourse d'une entreprise technologique soutenue par du capital-risque depuis Rubrik en avril. 🔥

La société propose un logiciel permettant aux artisans – plombiers, électriciens, techniciens et autres sous-traitants – de gérer leurs activités administratives comme les devis, les appels ou la planification des interventions. En janvier 2023, ServiceTitan comptait environ 8 000 clients.💡🛠️

Les fondateurs, @AraServiceTitan et @VaheKuzoyan ont en partie trouvé l'inspiration dans le parcours d’immigrants de leurs parents. Leur histoire impressionnante peut devenir un modèle pour d’autres entreprises désireuses d'associer l'utile et la réussite financière. 🔔👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 #Tech #Innovation #IPO

[ANCA @ANCA_DC]

Entering the 119th Congress, @RepJoeWilson is among the handful of legislators still willing to publicly carry water for both Turkey's anti-American Erdogan regime and Azerbaijan's corrupt and genocidal Aliyev clan.

[The Uncivilised One @Sea2Sea1Way]

🚨MUST WATCH🚨
turkey 🇹🇷 and azerbaijan 🇦🇿 are terrorist states

[Armenia 🇦🇲 @armenia]

🎅🏼🦌Santa Claus landed in #Gyumri, second largest city of #Armenia 🇦🇲, to bring joy to children! 🍬

[Robert Ananyan @robananyan]

Why is #Armenia compelled to purchase weapons to enhance its defence capabilities? From 2021 to 2024, Azerbaijan has carried out over ten military attacks against Armenia, occupying 200 to 300 square kilometres of territory. #Azerbaijan has seized Nagorno-Karabakh, historically populated by Armenians and ostensibly under Russian protection, forcibly displacing 150,000 Armenians. #Armenians have lived in Karabakh for millennia, maintaining their national identity despite being ruled by various empires. It is only under Azerbaijan’s authoritarian rule that #Karabakh has lost its indigenous Armenian population.

Even after the forced displacement of Armenians, Azerbaijan continues its anti-Armenian policies. Following the occupation of Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s president introduced the concept of "Western Azerbaijan" referring to the current territory of the Republic of Armenia. By advocating for the "return" of Azerbaijanis to Armenia, #Aliyev is making territorial claims against Armenia, intending to achieve them through war․

Years ago, Aliyev threatened to seize the so-called "Zangezur Corridor" by force if Armenia did not provide it, under Russian supervision. The term "Western Azerbaijan" is a propagandistic narrative used by Aliyev's regime to prolong its rule. The intensification of hostility toward Armenians aims to mobilize Azerbaijanis around the Aliyev dynasty. Aliyev portrays himself as the sole figure capable of protecting Azerbaijan from "revanchist Armenians."

For decades, Heydar and Ilham Aliyev justified their dynasty’s rule by "liberating Karabakh from the occupying Armenians." Now that "Karabakh is liberated" the dynasty needs a new ideology to consolidate #Azerbaijanis, and that ideology is the "Western Azerbaijan" narrative. There is no guarantee that Azerbaijan will not wage wars against Armenia in the coming years to "liberate Western Azerbaijan." A regime of constant warfare prolongs the life of the Aliyev dynasty.

Armenia is compelled to arm itself to prevent Azerbaijan from starting a war and seizing new territories. Inspired by #Putin's "success" in annexing #Ukrainian territories, Aliyev uses force against Armenia to demand recognition of his conquests. Aliyev has repeatedly stated that international law is in crisis and that the right of force governs the world. If Armenia does not arm itself, Azerbaijan will launch new wars and occupy additional territories. The current Azerbaijani leadership is even capable of committing a new genocide against Armenians in the name of "liberating #WesternAzerbaijan.”

Azerbaijan is repeating Armenia's past mistakes. After the victory in the first Karabakh war in 1994, Armenian propaganda convinced the population that Jabrayil, Horadiz, Aghdam, and other territories were historically Armenian and that "land conquered with blood cannot be surrendered." This was the propaganda of Robert Kocharyan's and Serzh Sargsyan's governments. I am not sure that Azerbaijan would not have started a war and occupied Karabakh even after receiving five or seven territories.

In reality, the refusal to cede five or seven territories stemmed from the impossibility of securing sufficient international guarantees for Karabakh's safety. Life has shown that Azerbaijan’s government is capable of occupying Karabakh, which was under the control of peacekeepers. Of course, the Russian peacekeepers' goal was never to protect Armenians. However, the fact remains that Azerbaijan stopped at nothing and occupied Karabakh, violating international law and forcibly displacing 150,000 Armenians.

For years, Aliyev's propaganda has convinced Azerbaijanis that Armenia is a fake state created by the #Russians, supposedly established on #Azerbaijani land and that Armenians are not indigenous but settlers. This propaganda aims to question Armenia’s right to exist. If a "favourable" international situation arises, there is a risk that the Aliyev dynasty will launch an operation to "liberate Western Azerbaijan." Armenia's arming angers Aliyev because it hinders his plans to execute the "liberation of Western Azerbaijan." He wants Armenia to remain weak, unarmed, and incapable of resistance, so he can easily "liberate Western Azerbaijan."

This scenario may sound absurd, but similar scepticism existed about Putin's plans when his propaganda sought to convince Russians that #Ukraine and Ukrainians did not exist. For decades, he laid the groundwork for the current war against Ukraine. Ilham Aliyev follows the same format. His claims that Armenia is arming itself to start a war against Azerbaijan are baseless.

No matter how much Armenia arms itself, it cannot restore the military balance with Azerbaijan. Armenia needs a military-political balance, achievable only through close cooperation with the #USA, the #EU, and #France. However, our goal cannot be to ignite new wars. That would be suicidal, given the factors of Turkey and Russia supporting Azerbaijan.

We need good and positive relations with Azerbaijan and #Turkey, which will lead to economic development. Armenia must strive for regional peace. For Azerbaijan to be motivated to halt its aggressive policies and pursue peace, Armenia must cease being an "attractive victim" for Azerbaijan. To establish peace, Armenia must be armed, resilient, and a developing state with a pro-Western orientation. I tried to justify why Armenia’s armament is necessary. The alternative is the destruction of Armenia's statehood by the Russian-Azerbaijani tandem.

[Tomasz Lech Buczek @buczek_lech]

Your home is where your roots are.

"Proud to be Armenian"
Ruben Vardanyan

@RubenVardanyan_
@FreeArmHostages

[CIVILNET @CivilNetTV]

Azerbaijan lacks any motivation to sign a peace treaty with Armenia and is instead focused on gaining influence over Armenia’s southern regions over the next three to five years, according to Benyamin Poghosyan, a senior analyst at the APRI Armenia research center.

https://t.co/yHw4rIpPIA

[Raffi Elliott @RaffiElliott]

Nothing says "peace and love between all ethnicities" like a liberal-cosplaying grifter sitting amids total emptiness of a city just recently cleansed of its indigenous inhabitants.

#Absurdistan

[J-Christophe Buisson @jchribuisson]

Beau spécimen de révisionniste historique. Il y a 220 ans, l'Azerbaïdjan n'existait pas puisque né après la 1ère Guerre mondiale, avec le soutien des génocidaires turcs. L'#Artsakh #HautKarabakh #armenien, lui, existait depuis 2500 ans avant le nettoyage ethnique azéri de 2023.

[Ararat Petrosyan @araratpetrosian]

The map of the Armenian pogroms in Baku in JAN 1990, where the rioters marked the houses where #Armenia|ns lived with crosses.

[François DEVEDJIAN @fdevedjian]

Après l’échec cinglant de la #COP29 qui a montré au monde entier quelle dictature ignoble était le régime #Aliyev, ce communiqué de presse surréaliste de 12 pages de @AzerbaijanMFA 🇦🇿 mêlant contre-vérités et auto-congratulation confirme qu’à l’instar de toutes les tyrannies, la pétro-dictature de Bakou utilise le “droit” international et les organisations internationales comme des effets de leviers pour justifier ses crimes et étendre son oppression

Nul n’est plus aveugle que celui qui ne veut pas voir

#StopAliyevDictatorship

[Raffi Elliott @RaffiElliott]

Santa Claus was Turkish in the same way that George Washington was a Powhatan

[Ararat Petrosyan @araratpetrosian]

Terrifying post-war footage of religious intolerance. This campaign is led by the president of #Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev following his directive to destroy Christian monuments.

[Neil Hauer @NeilPHauer]

Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry has thanked every state to offer condolences for their downed airliner today - except the first to do so, Armenia 🇦🇲 🙃

[Simon Maghakyan @simonforco]

Did you know that @agbu has an app on Armenian holiday traditions? I didn’t — until an Armenian friend in Ukraine just asked for resources on how she can teach her children about Armenian Christmas traditions.

[Freedom House @freedomhouse]

In 2025, we will continue to push the intl community to hold regimes like Belarus and Azerbaijan fully accountable for their authoritarian repression.

Review our special reporting from 2024 detailing their human rights abuses and the path forward: https://t.co/J4cDLfeObn

[Lindsey Snell @LindseySnell]

Azerbaijani soldiers send president Aliyev a birthday message in front of an Armenian monument in occupied Stepanakert

[François DEVEDJIAN @fdevedjian]

N’en déplaise aux séides de la dictature Aliyev 🇦🇿, malgré la guerre, l’épuration ethnique et les crimes, nous sommes nos montagnes et nous le resterons

À #Stepanakert en #Artsakh (#HautKarabakh) occupé, Tatik-Papik veille en attendant le retour de ses enfants

#StopAliyevDictatorship