Tuesday, April 21 2020 16:03

ArmInfo.In the coming year or two, Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan will be able to establish working, friendly relations with Yerevan. Former Foreign Minister of  Artsakh, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Arman Melikyan,  expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.  "This is evidenced by  Harutyunyan's ability to solve his own internal problems  independently, without burdening Yerevan. From this point of view,  Harutyunyan's position is unambiguously acceptable for his  counterparts from Yerevan.

In this light, the diplomat considers it important that Harutyunyan  has no problems in the new parliament.  According to him, the  solution is the cooperation of his party with Ashot Ghoulyan's party  and with the ARF.  At the same time, the same party of Samvel  Babayan, taking into account the number of its seats in the  parliament, according to his forecasts, is quite able to take on a  rather special role, and it is too early to talk about it. In this  light, Melikyan did not rule out the impending political  consolidation of Robert Kocharyan's supporters in Artsakh.   Commenting on the collapse of the alliance between Masis Mayilyan and  Samvel Babayan, the diplomat noted that in any case this alliance  could not be of a long-term. Considering that the second round of the  presidential election was expected and forecasted from the beginning,  both Mayilyan and Babayan benefited from that alliance in tactical  terms. Both took the maximum from the union. At the same time,  Melikyan does not rule out that Mayilyan will continue to hold the  post of head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during Harutyunyan's  tenure.

"As regards the general outcome of the elections in Artsakh, since  1991 all the official results of the local elections there had  nothing to do with the real thoughts and feelings of the voters  regarding the authorities. Thus, the ruling group in Artsakh managed  to maintain leverage under its own control. "Mr. Harutyunyan became  the president of the minority, and he took upon himself an  additional, serious responsibility," the diplomat concluded.