“Ruben has always acted exclusively in the interests and for the benefit of the people of Artsakh and on his part has tried to do everything possible and even impossible for the people of Artsakh to continue to live peacefully in their millennia-old homeland. Before Ruben moved to Artsakh, I personally engaged in numerous discussions with him, as a result of which the decision to move to Artsakh became even stronger in him. Moving to Artsakh was his personal and conscious decision, as he was convinced that he needed to be with the people of Artsakh in this most difficult situation.

At the very least, I do not understand the position of the Prime Minister of Armenia regarding Ruben Vardanyan, a man who has done so much for Armenia, having made a huge contribution in terms of both investment of money and implementation of significant educational and infrastructural programs and projects that have made Armenia and the Armenian people known all over the world. Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian citizen, is currently illegally imprisoned in Baku. And if a citizen of a country finds himself in the prison of another country, and even more so illegally, and is held there in flagrant violation of all norms of international law, the first priority of that country is to release its citizen, and not to find all sorts of justifications why this is not being done”.