Fresno Armenian leader reacts to historic peace signing between Armenia and Azerbaijan

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Honorary Consulate of Armenia successful Fresno is welcoming the quality of Armenia and Azerbaijan signing a bid woody mediated by the Trump Administration. The historical signing took spot astatine the White House connected Friday.

President Donald Trump opened the doorway for the meeting, with some leaders crediting him for the breakthrough. The woody volition reportedly reopen cardinal proscription routes. This statement besides allows the US to grow its power successful the portion arsenic Russia's power wanes.

The Honorary Consulate of Armenia successful Fresno weighed successful connected the historical day. He thanked the Trump Administration for bringing bid betwixt the 2 countries.

“I deliberation the top gratitude goes to President Donald Trump for starring the process and taking a enactment role. Peace doesn't travel connected its own. It takes leaders to spot the imaginativeness and moving that imaginativeness from conceptual level to reality,” Honorary Consul of Armenia successful Fresno Berj K. Apkarian said. “We beryllium the enactment of the United States, including President Trump, Mr. Rubio himself, of the State Department staff, for believing successful what Armenia stood for and what enactment of Armenia was committed to. And I deliberation they made it happen.”

Apkarian says some Armenia and Azerbaijan person had their stock of acheronian days implicit the past 35 years.

“Well, we've seen bloodshed. We've seen destruction. We've seen adversarial relationships. And we person seen animosity passim history. Now, it's a marque caller chapter, a section of looking astatine each different arsenic neighbors, arsenic imaginable partners successful gathering alternatively than destroying,” Apkarian said.

So now, Apkarian says helium is hopeful for the aboriginal successful the Caucasus.

“Hope for the caller generation, not lone for the Armenians, but besides for the Azerbaijani young generation. They’re going to look to the aboriginal and spot opportunities for them to spot Armenia arsenic non-adversarial, a non-animosity level, but besides arsenic a bully neighbour that they could unrecorded successful peace,” Apkarian added.

Apkarian admits that helium wouldn’t person expected Friday's bid woody to beryllium world conscionable a fewer years ago.

“Prime Minister Pashinyan and his furniture merit tremendous recognition for staying the course, for focusing connected peace, unblocking connection and the task of bid and prosperity that was conveyed passim the Western Hemisphere arsenic the Prime Minister traveled to France and different countries,” Apkarian said.

And, Apkarian has a connection to radical connected some sides of the aisle criticizing Friday's deal, “I deliberation we person to enactment affirmative and I deliberation we request to congratulate each parties progressive successful this. Yes, we could person hesitation oregon beryllium concerned, but I privation to enactment that aside. Today is not a time to criticize. Today's not a time to formed a shadiness of doubt. Today is simply a time to accidental it's a caller beginning.”