It is time for the `anti-Nikol` pole to formulate vision for  restoration of post-war Armenia, otherwise our neighbors will do it  for us, in their own way - politician

ArmInfo. "If we, the anti-Nikolian leaders, are unable to formulate the content of Armenia's post-war restoration for some time and do not go to the  people with it, then our neighbors will do it for us - in their own  way," wrote in a social network the head of the group Vahe Hovhannisyan,

"Yesterday, after the first announcement of the upcoming address,  people were asking each other what Nikol would say. Most were  alarmed, some were excited. Even smart people were discussing the  most irrelevant options. Such are the times.

In the end, it turned out that Nikol said something very simple. He  said something like: "I don't know what Armenia is about anymore: we  took pictures, signed, shook hands, went home, and now, my dears, I  don't know what will happen and what tomorrow's Armenia will be,"  Hovhannisyan noted.

According to him, until 2018, everyone, including Nikol Pashinyan,  knew that Armenia was about the post- victory period, which was  difficult and confusing. It was a very long period that required not  doing much or doing much, which required doing much differently, but  this period, this era, was associated with the evolutionary  consolidation of a fixed victory. Another thing is that we did not  understand that victory is a very complex thing and requires serious  state-political thinking, the expert notes.

"Now Nikol clearly says: . 

The whole tragedy is that now the anti-Nikol camp, their leaders also  do not know what today's and tomorrow's Armenia is about. And if they  do not know, then they cannot explain, convince, consolidate their  own society," he notes.

According to him, there is no understanding of what it means to  restore a country that has suffered a defeat.

"Our state-political thought does not formulate our goals, stages,  and vision of post-war restoration. That is why even years after the  war, our defeat continues, and we are already losing to ourselves. We  do not understand this either. From now on, the Turks do not defeat  us, we ourselves bring defeat to ourselves.  And this will continue  until any political unit, alliance or team formulates a program,  stages, goals and vision of post-war restoration.

Until this is done, no one in the world is interested in us, no one  needs us. Our homeland will periodically be perceived as a means of  settling scores or receiving a prize by someone.

As long as we do not know what the defeat is, in a state like our  state, our collective and guiding thought formulates the goals of  Armenia's future, Nikol can remain in power and detain people, some  of whom may not even understand why he was detained, can make  speeches, make concessions and convince them that this is the joy of  the world," writes Hovhannisyan.

Those who are in politics and the broad, inert layers  of society need to be explained what it means to live in a country  whose content and future prospects have not been formulated. This is  truly frightening, Vahe Hovhannisyan believes.

The previous evening, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made a  video address on his first working day after vacation and addressed  the people with a number of messages. Thus, according to him, after  the August 8 Washington trilateral summit, the people of Armenia live  "in a new South Caucasus and in a new Republic." Then, pointing to  the need to open transport routes, he said that it is necessary to  complete the clarification, delimitation and demarcation of the state  border. And speaking about the return of over 200 square kilometers  of sovereign Armenian territories occupied by the enemy in 2021-2023,  Pashinyan equated the fact of their return to Armenia with the  transfer of the so-called Azerbaijani enclaves to Baku, but did not  say a word about the Armenian territories occupied by the Azerbaijani  side in the early 90s of the last century. "This reality must be  resolved in the demarcation process. But the logic of the world, the  new logic, is that when we talk about the sovereign territories of  the Republic of Armenia under the control of Azerbaijan, we must also  say that there are sovereign territories of Azerbaijan under our  control, and this mutual issue must be resolved in the process of  demarcation," Pashinyan said. The head of the Armenian government  also called the idea of the return of Artsakh refugees to  Nagorno-Karabakh unrealistic.