Ruben Vardanyan: Azerbaijan personalizes situation

ArmInfo. Azerbaijan decided to personalize the situation.  The former state minister of the republic Ruben Vardanyan stated this in an interview with the Public TV channel of Artsakh, commenting on the question of whether there  was pressure from outside to remove him from his post, specifically  from Azerbaijan.

According to Vardanyan, there have been several developments during  his stay in Artsakh. In particular, as the politician and businessman  noted, it was a surprise for many people to see him in Artsakh.  <People did not believe why I should come as a patriot and live in  Artsakh. I thought that after my arrival the negotiations with  Azerbaijan would return to the normal course, but the opposite  happened. I believe that the decision to dismiss me was wrong, and  you can ask the rest of the questions to the President of Artsakh. He  made a decision taking into account a number of factors," Vardanyan  said.

He noted that the most important thing was done: what is happening in  Artsakh was inventoried, because in order to attract investments and  work with the outside world, it is necessary to understand what the  situation is in the republic. <You must first yourself understand  what you have here, what is the situation here. We have clearly  figured out how decisions are made, how the mechanism of governance  works in Artsakh. Finally, we really saw our vulnerabilities, and  where we have the most problems, where we have the most challenges.  It's not an easy thing to diagnose and understand pain points. It  takes time>, Ruben Vardanyan emphasized.

He noted that in the first 100 days of his tenure as the state  minister of Artsakh, it was planned to present a vision of further  steps, which is already available. Now, according to the former state  minister, there is an understanding of what needs to be done in  Artsakh in the field of education, infrastructure and finance.  "The  blockade and severe restrictions on movement have stopped many  things, but many projects are in the process, and they are being  implemented. If we want to build a system, and not just promote it,  this requires a systematic approach>, Vardanyan emphasized. According  to him, there are many ideas, but the question is whether the  president will use them, and how he will work with the next state  minister, depends on him. Ruben Vardanyan assessed his experience as  a state minister as unique and fantastic.

According to him, at the first meeting of the government, he outlined  five crisis points: the financial crisis, the crisis of  constitutional reform, the crisis of state administration, the crisis  of a potential blockade or hard winter, and the crisis of apathy and  indifference. "I must say that I considered and still consider all  these five crises to be fundamentally important. Somewhere we managed  to change something, somewhere we didn't, but the main thing is that  we really metthis winter not quite prepared for it to be so harsh. I  really take off my hat and have a lot of respect for the people who  endured everything that happened to us>, he stressed.