ArmInfo. Kazakhstan has been and will remain an arena of the major actors' clashing geopolitical interests - up to a global scale, political engineer Vigen Hakobyan told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.I forecasted possible instability in the Central Asian region starting from 2019, and in July last year, based on an analysis of a number of factors and events, it became clear that serious shocks would very soon affect Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh Arman Melikyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.The future of Armenia lies in a foreign policy based on the foundation of national identity. Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Turkologist Ruben Safrastyan, expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. Dispatching Armenian troops to Kazakhstan at Moscow's suggestion was by no means in Armenia's interests, Ruben Mehrabyan of the Armenian Institute of International and Security Affairs told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.Regretfully, the decisions of crucial importance for Armenia are made obeying the will of one person rather than are based on geopolitical analyses by specialized thinks tanks, Hovsep Khurshudyan, Chairman of the Free Citizen NGO, told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo. Despite being seemingly different, the developments in Kazakhstan, Armenia and other post-Soviet regions are part of one geopolitical patchwork, Viktor Nadein- Rayevsky, Director of the Institute of Black and Caspian Sea Region, told ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.Our last victims on the border with Azerbaijan is the price for the actions of the Armenian leadership in Kazakhstan, however, in general, I consider the range of these problems in a much broader context - the processes that began in 2020-2021 in the South Caucasus. National security expert Hrachya Arzumanyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo.At the three stages of the ongoing negotiations on security guarantees, we will see the beginning of the negotiation process between the Russian Federation and the United States, which will continue in the next stages. Fedor Lukyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy of Russia, expressed a similar opinion.
ArmInfo.Turkey may well try to take additional steps towards strengthening its influence in the South Caucasus. Sociologist Karen Sargsyan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.
ArmInfo."In view of the critically important normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, I disagree entirely with the opponents of the process, especially with fifth columnist," Stepan Grigoryan, Board Chairman, Analytical Centre on Globalisation and Regional Cooperation (ACGRC), told ArmInfo.