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.