New trilateral document not to cause new tragedy, politician 

ArmInfo. I think that, sooner or later, a meeting between Nikol Pashinyan, Vladimir Putin and Ilkham Aliyev will take place, and a document will certainly be  signed, Mikael Hayrapetyan, Chairman of the Conservative Party of  Armenia, told ArmInfo.

 "I do not think we can ever have any positive  expectations of that meeting. However, it is important that we are  not going to face any tragic consequences. The West's efforts have  driven the Russian-Turkish project into certain limits, and Moscow's  positions have seriously weakened over the last year, since the end  of the 44-days war. As a result, Russia is unable to keep its  promises to Ankara. And this all has greatly strengthened Armenia's  potential to oppose the plans against us," he said. 

In this context the politician believes that it is not at all  Russia's own choice to be ready for participating in the Turkish 3+3  project and Russia is most unlikely to take any effective steps to  implement it. Mr Hayrapetyan regards the 3+3 project as a present-day  counterpart of and follow-up to the illegal and anti- Armenian Treaty  of Kars. In this context he noted that 100 years ago the world turned  a blind eye to Kars to make Turkey the guard along the frontier with  Soviet Russia. Present-day Russia is, according to the politician,  too far from being a re-arising empire, the status it had back in  1921. Similarly, Turkey has lost its functions of frontier guard. 

According to Mr Hayrapetyan, the 3+3 is supposed to bring calamities  to Armenia, which could be tantamount to the calamities caused by the  Treaty of Kars. In this context, the politician regards Yerevan's  unwillingness to clearly state its stance on the 3+3 as absolutely  right as, he thinks, time is in Armenia's favor. However, silence  alone will not remedy the situation, and it is high time for Armenia  to present its own project to the world. 

"All this requires that our authorities and opposition forces show  more reason and discernment. And, by and large, I welcome the  opposition's attempts to oppose the Russian-Turkish projects by  holding rallies.  But if the only goal of these steps is to seize  power in Armenia, such attempts will cause nothing but aversion. We  can see that Armenia's parliamentary opposition is not at all against  the proposals Armenia is receiving from Moscow and Ankara. The most  radical opposition groups have the full right to present themselves  as an alternative to both the authorities and other opposition  forces. The question is Armenian society's ability to perceive the  ideas and methods of radical opposition. We all could be convinced of  that after the early parliamentary elections half a year ago,"  Hayrapetyan said.