Aravot Daily interviewed former National Assembly Vice Speaker and former Armenian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Ara Sahakyan.
– The end of the military confrontation with Azerbaijan is not in sight. Azerbaijan has already occupied several tens of square kilometers of territory from Armenia. Nevertheless, Nikol Pashinyan reaffirmed that he was ready to sign a demarcation document. What happened that the peace-speaking political force brought another war with threats to our statehood and territorial integrity?
– It happened that the winners speak and act from a position of strength with our consistently weakened and defeated country. One can guess that the demarcation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border is not in the interests of the opposing couple. They want a road connecting them in the heart of Syunik right now. How much our people will be able to resist depends on many factors: Armenian army, allies, international pressure…
Read also
– Two days ago, the “heavy artillery” of the ruling power saw the way out of the situation in leaving the CSTO…
– In other words, are they “intimidating” the old ally or are they looking for a new ally with a serious face? They played a weak game because they could not calculate all the consequences. I do not understand anything…
– An inevitable and forced question: what is the way out?
– There is a way out, and it does not require material and financial investments. It requires love. To love the Homeland, the people, means many “refusals” – renunciation of greed, officialism, ambition, self-righteousness, the tendency to see one’s own wounded yesterday become an enemy. The first and last wars showed that there are many of us who love the Homeland. Thousands of them sacrificed their time on this earth, their lives. Their children and brothers are endless and now they are ready to fight, to serve, to join the mobilized forces, to volunteer. They are silently criticizing the ruling or opposition elite, being united. Unity will close the doors of social division. We will become a united fist. Let the political elite gather around a “round table” where each participant will come with the idea of giving up the maximum and maintaining the minimum of their partial interests. Form a government of broad consensus. We need a government with high trust. You will not make a Great Covenant with 50% + 1 vote of Democracy. The “round table” will take place only with the good will of the government. Let them invite the forces that received more than 1% of the votes in the last parliamentary elections. As the verdicts will be purely political, they can be obtained in a few hours, at most in 1-2 days. In this way, the new administration of Armenia will present its citizens, Armenians, and the world with a new and stronger face. Whatever you want to call it- more democratic and legal, more patriotic and homeland-centered, less corrupt or professional. The “round table” must be closed by a final decision: a ceasefire for the struggle for power is established for some time. A different path will throw us into an oriental struggle full of dangers of relying on external forces, which has already released its seeds.
Nelly GRIGORYAN
