Political scientist: The past two years have been years of  restoration of Armenian sovereignty

ArmInfo. In honor of the Armenian authorities, it should be noted that the past two years have shown a certain leveling of the country's foreign policy vector. Political  scientist Robert Ghevondyan expressed  a similar  opinion to ArmInfo,  commenting on the foreign policy results of two years after the  change of power in Armenia,.

On April 23, 2018, under the pressure of the people, Prime Minister  of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan resigned.  April 23 became a real public  holiday in Armenia: people hugged and congratulated each other on the  change of government. After that, the formation of an interim  government began, led by leader of the Velvet Revolution Nikol  Pashinyan. The process of a change of power ended with the victory of  the Pashinyan's "My Step" bloc in the parliamentary elections of  December 2018.

"After the change of power in Armenia in April 2018, at first it  really seemed that the one-vector policy of the previous authorities,  which had actually turned Armenia into a vassal of Russia, was  beginning to be replaced by almost the same policy, however, in the  direction of the West. It should be noted that the implementation of  such a scenario would lead to disastrous consequences for our  country. However, the initial impression was erroneous, "he stressed.

According to the political scientist, gradually getting rid of the  degree of vassal subordination to Moscow, the new authorities did not  combine this process with a sharp deviation to the West. And today,  according to his estimates, a very careful balancing of the foreign  policy vector is gradually taking place. Ghevondyan considers this  process as evidence of the leadership of Armenia's multi-vector  foreign policy.

In Ghevondyan's opinion, it is extremely important that none of these  vectors develops at the expense of the other. In this sense, it can  be noted that over the past two years Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan  has been consistently fulfilling his own promises made to the people  and international partners of Armenia.

The political scientist recalled that the foreign policy of the  former authorities almost completely fit into the logic of ensuring  Russian interests. In other words, the administration of at least the  country's foreign policy from Yerevan was of a puppet nature. Today  the situation has changed. And both pro-Russian and pro- Western  wishes in the direction of developing exclusively one of these two  vectors of cooperation are ignored. "Thus, it is the balanced policy  of the new leadership of Armenia that allows significantly mitigating  risks and, to put it mildly, aspects and consequences of the previous  policy that are not in line with Armenian interests. The situation  has already stabilized, although catastrophic forecasts regarding the  consequences of such a tendency of the leadership of Armenia towards  independence and sovereignty of the country continue to sound today,  "the political scientist concluded.