YEREVAN. – Hraparak daily of the Republic of Armenia (RA) writes: An extraordinary situation has been created in Artsakh [(Nagorno-Karabakh)]. The political elite, from the opposition to the authorities, rebelled against the RA leadership. Will [Artsakh President] Arayik Harutyunyan take this situation to the end, starting from Artsakh the process of [Armenia PM Nikol] Pashinyan’s rejection? Or is the threat against him [i.e., Harutyunyan] already neutralized and the state interest of Artsakh is no longer important?
Let us recall that at his [Facebook] press conference [last week], Pashinyan stated that he had received such an inheritance of [Karabakh peace] negotiations [from his predecessors] that he could not say whether Artsakh is Armenian. However, he did not publicize any document that would be the proof of this and would not be perceived as his own plan to Azerbaijanize Artsakh, which Pashinyan attempted to bring to fruition in the past one year, especially in recent days.
The thing is that the RA Prime Minister has attempted to implement a plan to oust Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan through [Artsakh former defense minister and Defense Army commander, and ex-secretary of the Security Council] Samvel Babayan. First, to thwart the adoption of the budget, then to express impeachment against the Artsakh President. As a result, Artsakh would be deprived of its subjectivity and would no longer be able to elect a president.
However, Arayik Harutyunyan was informed about this conspiratorial plan, [and] as a result of consultations with the opposition, he managed to prevent the first part of this plan; the budget was adopted.
It is not ruled out in Artsakh that we will soon witness the second series of this. Babayan will attempt, through some circles, to generate protests against Harutyunyan.
By the way, after the adoption of the draft budget on December 23, Babayan tried to meet with Harutyunyan, but his proposal was rejected.
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