The Armenian internet was shaken when it became known that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan received the 2026 Zayed Award for Human Fraternity, marking the establishment of peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Yesterday, it was also revealed who stands behind this foundation. Among the members of the award committee who arrived in Armenia was Charles Michel - a figure well known to our people. It was under his commitment that "ethnic" Armenians, as he phrased it, were supposed to live in Nagorno-Karabakh under internationally guaranteed security and rights mechanisms.

If Charles Michel's vision was an ethnically cleansed Artsakh emptied of Armenians, then it should have been stated honestly from the very beginning, with an award offered in exchange.

In my memory, Charles Michel is especially noted for the fact that just 12 days after the meeting held in Brussels on August 31, 2023, Armenia suffered a large-scale Azerbaijani attack. Sovereign territories of the Republic of Armenia were occupied and remain so to this day; a female Armenian soldier was mutilated, unarmed Armenian prisoners of war were shot at their positions, and there was not a single international lawsuit, no investigation, and no condemnation - zero consequences.

Our people must not be deceived by the propaganda built around this award. On the contrary, it is necessary to clearly realize that wherever Charles Michel is present, the hand of Azerbaijan is also there. He does not represent justice, human rights, the rule of law, or the values promoted by the EU. Michel is yet another miserable lobbyist for Aliyev, and he has brought this award to Pashinyan to support him in the upcoming parliamentary elections, so that our people are deceived into re-electing the award winner.