YEREVAN, JUNE 2, ARMENPRESS. Vahan Martirosyan, the Armenian fugitive who had fled to Azerbaijan, and member of the so-called “Armenia-Azerbaijan peace platform”, continues to make new revelations about the true goals of the platform and the people behind its origins.

In an online footage from Kiev, Martirosyan responded to Azerbaijani media, saying that he is making the statement voluntarily, without any coercion from anyone.

“If I or any member of the platform have been pressured, then it has been done by the Azerbaijani special services themselves”, he said.

Revealing the true story behind the platform and its meaning, Martirosyan – who was working for Azerbaijan and began to unmask the lies of Baku after fleeing to Ukraine – said that the country’s state structures are behind the so called civil society of Azerbaijan, including the Presidential staff and state security service officers. He said that the latter are embezzling the most of financial allocations, which Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev provides for the platform’s operations and involvement of Armenians in it.

“Azerbaijani authorities are committing obvious lies and fraud. Since actually Armenians who would want to join the platform did not exist, they were creating made-up people, who allegedly have Armenian origin and were making some kind of statements, supposedly to support the Baku declaration. For instance, the statement of Anna Sinanyan – who allegedly lives in the US – was widely spread, but actually this person doesn’t exist: Alyona Abdullayeva – the daughter of a close friend of Haqqin.az editor-in-chief Eynulla Fetullayev was presented instead of her, who is an ethnic Azerbaijani. Or Aram Karapetyan, who is actually an ethnic Ukrainian by the name of Yevgeny Ragachko, who lives in Odessa and later denied his involvement in this process”, Martirosyan said, adding he possesses many facts and names who are involved in this process.

He also mentioned that while in Azerbaijan, he was demanded to hand over military data concerning Armenia’s bordering regions. “They even offered a few thousand dollars If I could have organized the arrival of an Armenian soldier to Baku”, Martirosyan said.

In conclusion, Vahan Martirosyan said that during the two years of his stay in Azerbaijan, he has realized the following: “Currently a free civil society doesn’t exist in Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, there is no one there whom you can talk to anymore. The level of anti-Armenian sentiment in Azerbaijan can perhaps be compared with the level of anti-Semitism in some medieval country”.