HMAYAK HOVHANNISYAN: SERZH SARGSYAN HAS WEIGHED ALL PROS AND CONS AND MADE A WISE DECISION
by Emmanuil Lazarian
ARMINFO
Wednesday, September 4, 10:56
“Who has been heard and why?” – this was the title of my article
published in the Armenian press 18 years ago. I argued against Valery
Mirzoyan, a representative of the anti-Russian wing of the Armenian
National Movement Party. I claimed that the decision on the contractual
and legal registration of the Armenian-Russian strategic alliance and
deployment of a Russian military base in Armenia met the national
interests of Armenia”, Hmayak Hovhannisyan, Head of the Armenian
Association of Political Experts, says in his interview with ArmInfo.
“Who remembers Valery Mirzoyan and others who called for ousting Russia
from the South Caucasus region under the slogan “It is necessary to
expel the third force”? My current opponents, who think they have
managed to hypnotize the Armenian leader, will fall into political
oblivion in the same way. Serzh Sargsyan has weighed all the pros and
cons and made a wise decision, having blown sky-high the expectations
of the ill-wishers of the Armenian- Russian strategic cooperation.
We should hope that he will take similar efficient steps in the
domestic policy and the public support for his foreign political
course will grow”, says Hovhannisyan.
He points out that in the troubled 1990s, uneasy 2000s and today the
Armenian Association of Political Experts will support the politicians
who make decisions with due regard for the highest national and state
interests of Armenia.