Political scientist: Succumbing to phobias, Pashinyan played into the  hands of all the initiators and interested parties of the 44-day war

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.