ArmInfo.Former Vice-Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Edurad Sharmazanov voiced a number of reasons that attracted the world's attention to the Armenian factor. Thus, according to Sharmazanov, there were 4 key factors that attracted world attention to Armenia: the presence of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant; The 102nd Russian military base facing the Turkish army; Armenian Syunik, separating Azerbaijan from Turkey, and Armenian Artsakh.
According to the ex-vice speaker, it is now obvious that the external beneficiaries of the change of power in Armenia in 2018 planned to neutralize these factors. "It is clear that by changing the foreign policy vector of Armenia, the Turkish-NATO pole will stop the operation of the nuclear power plant. Turkey will cease to be a threat to Armenia after the signing of an agreement on the normalization of relations, so the Russian 102nd military base can be withdrawn.
In addition, as Sharmazanov writes, on October 6, 2022, in Prague, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan recognized Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan, thereby marking the beginning of the de-Armenization of the unrecognized republic. And regarding Syunik, he believes, Pashinyan came up with the term "crossroads", which in the past was "Armenian", has now become "peac", and in the future will become "Turkish". If such a "crossroads" becomes a reality, then th e whole Armenia will turn into a "crossroads of pan-Turkism," the politician believes. Sharmazanov considers the implementation of this conspiratorial plan to be an established fact.
He believes that the only alternative to this is to build a security and foreign policy strategy exclusively around the Iran-Russia-China axis. "Otherwise, Armenia will become another obedient instrument of pan- Turkism," he concluded.