Wednesday, August 18 2021 21:38

ArmInfo.Armenia and Artsakh need to simultaneously prepare for both peace and war.  Leader of the  "For the Republic's Sake" party  Arman Babajanyan expressed a similar  opinion to ArmInfo.

"Without a doubt, the peace agenda should be key for us, however, in  the absence of excessive illusions about the prospects of  guaranteeing peace by anyone to Armenia and Artsakh. We have no other  alternative and we must clearly realize this," he noticed.

The politician considers the preparation of Ilham Aliyev both for a  regime of peaceful competition and future wars with Armenia as an  additional reason in favor of the need to form such a discourse in  the Armenian republics. According to Babajanyan, this, among other  things, is evidenced by the start of construction by Azerbaijan of a  tunnel from Lachin to Kelbajar.

In his opinion, Aliyev, within the framework of the communicative  military-political logic, today is actively trying to develop the  territories that were under the control of Azerbaijan as soon as  possible. And it does this in pursuit of several goals. In  particular, Babajanyan assigns military and communication importance  to the construction of the Lachin-Kelbajar tunnel.

"I understand that this may sound strange, but by his own steps  Aliyev personally indicates to us the priority areas of counteraction  to these steps. He points out to the Armenian leadership what should  finally be done, that is to replace the empty and petty domestic  political agenda in the National Assembly with a real foreign policy  agenda. Yerevan and Stepanakert must actively prepare for both peace  and war at the regional level through the implementation of relevant  large programs of an economic and military-political nature, "he  stressed.

In this light, the parliamentarian pointed to the the rather  complicated knot already  formed in Central Asia, at first glance "at  the behest of the Taliban" with the direct involvement of Russia,  China, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. All these forces are now trying to  negotiate with the new Afghan regime in accordance with their own  interests. However, in his opinion, it is not necessary to predict  the degree of reliability and stability of such agreements today.

The Taliban today, of course, need some time to finally establish  itself in Afghanistan as a ruling force.  Accordingly, the Taliban  are also interested in negotiations and agreements with the  aforementioned states.  However, the future actions of this radical  movement after the consolidation of its power in Afghanistan may well  fit into the logic of its involvement in the regional game. It is  obvious that, as a rule, radical, closed regimes are simply incapable  of ensuring their own strength without territorial claims to  neighboring states. And the last concerns both the Taliban and the  Aliyev regime, "Babajanyan summed up.