Rasulzadeh talks about wording of declaration of 5th government and proposes skip to discussion. Malkhazyan objects Rasulzadeh, proposes to postpone the discussion of the declaration to the next regular meeting of the Parliament, since the announced declaration in the Turkic language remained incomprehensible to the national minorities.

Rasulzadeh answered: The government’s declaration was written in the same language I speak, and Malkhazyan, who understands me, should have understood the declaration as well. For this, you should not postpone the discussion to the next meeting. If ethnic minorities are unfamiliar with certain places of the declaration, then you can take a break for 10 minutes, during which they will become familiar with the declaration.

Malkhazyan: I understand Mammed Emin, but it can not be said about our entire faction as well, which must express its attitude to the announced declaration. And I think that Parliament can not deprive those who did not understand the declaration of the opportunity to familiarize themselves with it in detail.

After second gathering, Malkhazyan speaks on behalf of Armenian faction, criticizes new government of not including Armenians. He mentions that they did not object to former government [which included two Dashnak ministers] because they saw this as Turkic people finally recognizing Armenians as their equals. However, new government declaration considers Armenians unlawful subjects:

Today, for the first time, the parliamentary faction of Armenians is compelled to make a statement that it cannot give its confidence to the present government. In order to avoid any misunderstandings, I must declare that I am speaking in this case for all Armenian deputies and not on behalf of my faction. We supported the previous cabinets, despite the fact that on several occasions our principals, our voters, gave us a number of reproaches. We looked at our representation as representation of class and were coalitioning with the relevant Turkic political parties depending on their leaning. From this point of view, we did not criticize the previous cabinet. Why? Because we believed that the dominant Turkic political thought now recognizes the Armenian population as their equals.

He further states that the announced declaration declares the Armenian population of Azerbaijan out of law and is surprised that such a declaration, together with the representative of “Ittihad”, was signed by the representative of socialists Aslan Bey Safikyurdsky, who demonstrated his chauvinism by this act.

“I remember very well,” he continues, “that the same Usubbekov, from the same department even during the formation of the previous cabinet, declared that the government would stand on the point of view of a peaceful resolution of controversial issues.” In conclusion of his speech, he states that he speaks as a citizen of the Republic of Azerbaijan and as a member of the Azerbaijani parliament, and all the objections that can be made to him should be made only from this point of view.

Kravchenko protests because there are no Russians represented in government, going as far as to say: “The Russian faction, entering the Parliament, firmly declared that it stands and will stand on the platform of a Great, United, Indivisible Russia. (Noise & screams – Get out! Leave for Rostov! Down with you! You have no place here!)“

Rasulzadeh criticizes Malkhazyan about declaration text, he says there is no mention of Armenians as such manner, on the contrary, new declaration is not divisive and recognizes Armenians as a part of the society: Perhaps the expression “from the principle of reciprocity”, used in the Russian translation, does not quite successfully convey the idea of the Turkic text speaking of “mutual benefits”; it is possible that such inaccuracy has disturbed Mr. Malkhazyan. But if Mr. Malkhazian have not suffered from prejudice of thought, then it would have been easier for him to guess it was the translator’s error rather than thinking the whole government is in a conspiracy against the Armenians. Just because you are not included in government, is it fair to accuse with such ideas? … If the government declaration speaks of “mutual benefits,” it does not want to say that “let Armenia first ensure the rights of the Muslims, and then we will follow the same line in relation to the Armenians of Azerbaijan”. The government declaration is written in black and white. It is clearly seen from it that the government sincerely wants the rights of national minorities to mutual benefit to be resolved here and in Armenia. From the point of view of the declaration, only by this way it is possible to ensure the solidarity of the Caucasian peoples. Because of one unsuccessfully translated phrase, blaming the government, and claiming it to be Armenophobic, claiming it is outlawing the whole people is – please forgive me, but I will put it mildly – this is something different than chichencrafting. (Applause)

Rasulzadeh further confronted them that they were unsuccessful because they had absurd wishes. They wanted Prime Minister to admit that Armenians were subject to persecution and they demanded job quotas to be given according to ethnicities. But he was sure that their erroneous behavior do not reflect simple Armenians. He further draws examples from Armenian and Georgian governments that there are no Azerbaijanis in Armenian government, there no Armenians or Azerbaijanis in Georgian government – so this is not end of the world. Armenians are themselves to blame, since they couldn’t get along with other parties and only thought about themselves.

MP Safikurdsky proclaims he is a social revolutioner despite accused of being nationalist by Dashnaksutyun. He further draws attention to the fact that Dashnaksutyun is not based in Azerbaijan, but in Armenia. In which parliament almost no socialists exist and even if they do, they are half-menshevik and Dashnaks do not let them to talk.