ArmInfo.The Republican Party of Armenia and personally its leader, former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan managed to keep current Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan from resolving the Artsakh problem through negotiations. Thus, the tactics they have adopted since Pashinyan came to power to restrict him in this matter have been crowned with success. Leader of the Constructive Party, political scientist Andrias Ghukasyan, expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
"Moreover, they managed to achieve an unstable state of Pashinyan psychologically. Evidence of which are his repeated statements that if he agreed to the proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, he would be labeled a traitor. Moreover, the Prime Minister did everything to avoid such a prospect. Thus, Pashinyan succumbed to the psychological attack organized by the RPA on him in order to tie down his possible actions towards a peaceful settlement of the conflict," he noted.
The purpose of such tactics of the Republicans in relation to Pashinyan, in the opinion of the political scientist, was the desire to demonstrate the complete helplessness of the current prime minister in the implementation of his main external function - to lead the process of the Artsakh settlement. Since the head of Armenia, who is not able to promote the Artsakh settlement, in the understanding and from the point of view of the Armenian society, is a priori incapable of governing the state. In other words, all this was done in order to lower public confidence in Pashinyan.
According to Ghukasyan, it was to get rid of all this purposeful criticism and accusations of defeat that Pashinyan left for Artsakh in a depressed state. After that, he declared to thousands of Artsakhians in the square in Stepanakert and to the whole world that Artsakh is Armenia. The latter, in the opinion of the political scientist, was the result of the lack of elementary knowledge of international law by Pashinyan and his team. Meanwhile, otherwise, it is this knowledge, coupled with an awareness of geopolitical realities would help the ruling power to agree to a peaceful settlement and not succumb to the phobias imposed on them by opponents.
"Thus, it was Pashinyan who actually opposed the peaceful settlement of the conflict, refusing the proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group. It was he who accepted the military settlement of the conflict as an option. As a result, Armenia and Pashinyan personally did absolutely nothing to prevent the impending war. Pashinyan did not apply to the UN Security Council which he was simply obliged to do, and thus played into the hands of all the initiators and interested parties of the war, who were not limited to Azerbaijan and Turkey at all," the political scientist summed up.