On this day, exactly ten years ago, the National Constitution of the Republic of Western Armenia was adopted, based on the international legal recognition of the unified Armenian state of 1920, whose successor state is Western Armenia.

I would like to remind that the legal recognition of our state was a historic event, which also included the arbitral award of President Woodrow Wilson, which defined the border between the Armenian state of 1920 and Turkey.

Our Constitution is based on indisputable legal foundations, and I call upon the entire nation to master it.

The issue of the recognition of the Armenian state of 1920 was deliberately concealed and distorted for a long time. This knowledge of national history was also entirely bypassed in Armenian schools around the world.

Our children have learned only that this small territory remained—born from the collapse of the Soviet Union—which appropriated the name “Armenia,” turning the territory of Western Armenia into an insignificant detail of history, whereas—

It was on the territory of Western Armenia that one of the world’s first states was born, with its indigenous nation possessing a history of more than 10,000 years. It is also regarding this territory that the principal Allied powers expressed support for the recognition of the Armenian state of 1920.

At the same time, falsifiers of our history have celebrated and continue to celebrate the so-called “independence” on May 28, which in reality is the national independence holiday of Azerbaijan.

Without Western Armenia, the Yerevan regime is in fact not based on any legal foundation and seeks in every way to create an illusion of legal legitimacy.

One such method is the erasure of the term “Western Armenia,” whereas 80 percent of the Armenian people who survived the genocide originate from the territory of Western Armenia, and even the constitution of the Yerevan regime could not have existed without the breath of Western Armenia.

All events concerning the Armenian nation originate from Western Armenia.

In the cultural sphere—from Komitas Vardapet to Aznavour—it is the song and music of the sons of Western Armenia that resonate throughout the world and in our churches.

In the military sphere, where Missak Manouchian stands as a guiding figure, it was the sons of Western Armenia who fell on the field of honor during the two world wars.

The Armenian nation is an indigenous people, and its right to self-determination on the land of its ancestors is not subject to negotiation.

Its state structure and the organization of public authorities—through its National Constitution—constitute the conditions for the perpetuity of its existence.