Wednesday, November 18 2020 15:27

ArmInfo.An extremely dangerous and difficult situation has developed in the country. Director of the Kavkaz Institute Alexander Iskandaryan stated this during an online  discussion.

Iskandaryan noted that an acute situation has developed in the  country. "MPs from the ruling bloc in full force do not attend the  meeting of the Council of Parliament, the opposition boycotts the  meetings of the Parliament. Citizens attack and destroy the buildings  of the Government and the National Assembly of Armenia, then it is  noted that representatives of opposition parties participated in  these pogroms. Another question is how much this information  corresponds to reality , but all this causes concern. We do not know  what to expect. And in the future the situation will deteriorate.  Dialogue has developed between the government and those who supported  it, but a dialogue is needed between all political forces. Here you  do not have to choose who likes whom, or who supported the  revolution.

If the opposition declares that dialogue is possible only in the  event of the resignation of the authorities, and the authorities say  they will not leave, we will stop hearing each other. And in two  months, the situation will no longer be just critical. We are in the  phase that we went through in the early 1990s. Due to the victories  that Armenia won in the first Karabakh war, we did not turn into a  kind of Azerbaijan and Georgia, "the political scientist noted.

The director of the Caucasus Institute stressed that under Elchibey,  Azerbaijan lost the war, and now we have the same situation as in  Azerbaijan at that time. According to Iskandaryan, we need to create  a consensus of any political and non-political forces.

"For the first time, a political force came to power in Armenia, for  which the Karabakh issue was not at the top of the political agenda.  The My Step bloc came almost exclusively on the social agenda. The  Karabakh issue began to appear already during the government.

We had terrible defeats from 88 to 94, but the power was different.  It's not about whether it was good or bad. It was based on the  Karabakh problem, and the current government is now ready to discuss  other issues as well, "Iskandaryan said.

The expert said that urgent steps need to be taken, or a huge crisis  awaits us.

"The situation may get out of control and this will not be expressed  in the fact that political forces boycott parliamentary sessions or  organize fistfights. A situation may develop like in Beirut, when  people with machine guns are driving along the street and shooting in  the air. This is unlikely, but it is not worthwhile to reassure  oneself with the thought that the Armenian leadership still has  power. If a round table is not urgently created for discussions,  Armenia will collapse, "Iskandaryan concluded.