Wednesday, February 24 2021 11:27

ArmInfo.The speeches of the ex-presidents of Armenia Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sargsyan say one thing, while the facts say something completely different. A similar  opinion was expressed to ArmInfo by the chairman of the Public  Council of Armenia Stepan Safaryan.

“I can say that neither one nor the other has ever sought to resolve   the conflict around Artsakh on the basis of compromises, being   supporters of maintaining the status quo. Kocharian and Sargsyan  were well aware that the implementation of any of the settlement   options existing all these years contradicted their own interests.  After all, both came to power, removing Levon Ter-Petrosyan from it  in 1998 on the basis of maximalist approaches to the settlement of  the conflict, "he stressed.  Based on these realities, the analyst  assesses the entire strategy of Kocharian and Sargsyan on Artsakh as  maintaining the status quo throughout both ten-year terms of their  legislature. This is evidenced by the analysis of the policies  implemented by both presidents in the field of defense and  international relations. Everything was aimed at delaying the status  quo, and not at a conceptual solution to the problem.

Today, the ex-presidents, according to Safaryan's assessments, do  their best to avoid recognizing these realities, which is primarily  due to their desire to delay the inevitable war and toss it into the  pocket of their successors.  Meanwhile, society today already knows  very well that, starting from a certain period, Moscow has also  become interested in changing the status quo.  On the same days of   the 44-day war, the Russian president and the head of the Ministry  of Foreign Affairs repeatedly and quite unambiguously stated this.

As a result, today Kocharyan and Sargsyan, according to Safaryan,  cannot admit their own long-term efforts and all kinds of tricks to  delay the inevitable war already then. Having admitted this, they  will simply confirm the version already existing in society,   according to which, by delaying the war, they both only postponed it   to 2020.

"Of course, all this seriously worries them. Accordingly, the same  Serzh Sargsyan today is trying with all his might to present himself  as a supporter of a compromise settlement of the conflict. However,   the facts indicate the opposite. , he did not inform the public   about this. He did not even try to present the Kazan version to the  public. And he never spoke about the essence of negotiations with the   public, implying a compromise, "concluded the head of the Public  Council.