The Security and Democracy NGO organized a discussion: “Non-stop war: Who brought it about and how” RPA Vice President Armen Ashotyan said that Nikol Pashinyan’s seizure of power in 2018 was about Artsakh and losing Artsakh. “No matter how much it was packed with catchy democratic slogans, no matter how much it was a joke and a laugh for the outside, inside it was actually a coffin and a wreath at the hearths of political opponents. 2018 happened in Armenia because those outside forces, to whom Serzh Sargsyan hinted that it was them who lost, not Nikol, were interested in such a change taking place in Armenia, during which Artsakh would no longer remain for the Armenian people as a territory of a second statehood.
Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, the former foreign minister, who stubbornly tries to clear the guilt of the 44-day war, is not an important witness of this war, but one of the criminals. A person who, from May 2018 to September 2020, was deceiving, deceiving and obscuring the developments of Nikol Pashinyan’s foreign policy, in particular, regarding Artsakh. Not only was it in debt, but it was blurring. What was the main problem, it seemed to those semi-literate outcasts that if they declared themselves a bastion and beacon of democracy, then the world would not tolerate any encroachment on democracy by authoritarian Azerbaijan. A person who doesn’t know politics, or someone who doesn’t know world history could think that democracy can be a cornerstone security factor in foreign policy.”
Ashotyan said that in 2018, by declaring democracy as a foreign policy calling card, they actually confessed to betrayal. “Such a shield could not save Armenia and Artsakh from foreign political and military threats.” To the views that there would be no war if it wasn’t for 2018, Ashotyan replied that the Armenian people have been subjected to military harassment in their homeland for 4,500 years and to talk about the fact that there will be a period when Armenia will not be the target of foreign forces means deceiving one’s own people. the people or not knowing geopolitics. But he insisted that the 44-day war would not have been like this if there was no Nikol Pashinyan.
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“The very first steps he took in the direction of Artsakh after becoming the prime minister, starting from his own point, circulating the populist thesis that either Artsakh should return to the negotiation table, or that the solution should be acceptable to the people of Armenia, Artsakh, and Azerbaijan, are complete stupidity and intentional messages for internal and external audiences. After May 2018, because of Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia was gradually left alone in the negotiations and in the world, because if you have been conducting negotiations for 25 years in the format of the world powers, such as the Russian Federation, the USA and France, which represented the EU, then to come and say that I am throwing your work of 25 years into the water, I don’t care about your work, that you should come and explain to me what those Madrid principles are, how they are, I will tell you later if those principles are acceptable to me or not. Such self-righteous “pride” could be allowed either by a completely immoral or an ignorant person.”
Ashotyan reminded that Pashinyan was denying that there was a document on which negotiations are underway, until Lavrov stood up and said that I gave you a document in 2019. “This had to be delivered to the co-chairs of the Minsk Group, so that they could publicly “reject” the policy pursued by RA with an open text, something that had not happened until now.” According to Ashotyan, Nikol Pashinyan left little room for Russia in the South Caucasus with his policy and invited Turkey to the region. “Artsakh surrendered under the brand of democracy, Armenia surrendered under the false thesis of peace.”
Hripsime JEBEJYAN
