Saturday, April 13 2019 13:34

ArmInfo.Nikol Pashinyan's speech at the PACE did not resemble a table toast and possitively differed from the speeches of his predecessors, Stepan Safaryan, Director of  the Armenian Institute for International and Security Affairs  expressed such an opinion  to ArmInfo.  "In my opinion, the Prime  Minister's speech lacked only a reminder of Azerbaijan's failure to  fulfill its obligations taken along with Armenia when joining the  Council of Europe in 2001 to resolve the conflict exclusively by  peaceful means," he said.

At the same time, asking Pashinyan questions, the Azerbaijani  delegates, in turn, according to Safaryan, acted quite reasonably,  refraining from hysterical tone and anti-Armenian statements. Against  the background of the peace-loving tonality of the entire speech of  the Armenian Prime Minister, such a tone and content would present  Azerbaijan in bad light. In other words, according to the analyst, in  fact, Pashinyan managed to disarm the enemy with a pacifist tone and  content of his speech.

On April 11, Pashinyan, answering the question of the Turkish  delegate Aydin Kamil, stressed that Armenia is not at all eager to  change the format of the Karabakh talks, wishing to return to the  initial format of the talks, in which Karabakh also participated. "We  do not raise the issue of format change, but the Nagorno-Karabakh  problem cannot be resolved without Nagorno-Karabakh. We offer to sit  at the table, discuss all the nuances of the conflict, agree that we  are talking about resolving the issue, agree that our agenda is the  agenda of non-destruction each other, and resolving issues, as befits  the people of the 21st century, as befits the two CE member  countries. I want this conversation between governments, societies,  youth to start and take place, because our agenda is a peace agenda  ", the prime minister noted.

The analyst conditionally divides Pashinyan's speech into three  parts: Armenia yesterday, Armenia today and what Armenia will be  tomorrow and what is the role of PACE in all this. In this light, he  assessed the structure of the speech as constructed, as a whole,  correctly. According to Safaryan, the role of PACE on the way of  democratization of Armenia has always been presented exclusively in  general terms. As a result, the citizens of the republic often did  not even understand what this structure was and what it gives to  Armenia.

"In this light, Pashinyan quite skillfully interlaced the brief  chronicle of democratization of Armenia with its own history and  political background. In this sense, his example can be seen as the  personification of political persecution of more than 100  people,"Safaryan concluded .