It’s no secret that the initiative to create the Living Country Party comes from Ruben Vardanyan, who is one of our compatriots who is currently being held hostage in Baku. The symbolism of the agreement between Samvel Karapetyan’s alliance and Aprelu Yerkir Party is certainly not due to that circumstance alone.
There is an equally significant and important circumstance, important in a broad sense. In fact, Ruben Vardanyan and Samvel Karapetyan are two major holders of Armenian capital on an international scale, who assume responsibility and responsibility for the Armenian statehood, for the landmark development prospects of that statehood.
By and large, it is not important what the chronological sequence and format of the manifestations is. The fact itself is very important, which, in my subjective opinion, could have happened much earlier, but due to some developments, it remained “half-finished”. Those developments were the events of 2018.
And earlier, the change of government in 2016, when Karen Karapetyan was appointed prime minister in Armenia in September. His close partnership relationship with Samvel Karapetyan is known. And Ruben Vardanyan published an article after his appointment in 2016, in which it was clearly stated that if Karapetyan’s appointment fails, Armenia may not have a second chance for a breakthrough. By and large, it was during that period that a fairly significant environment of commitment and responsibility towards the perspective of Armenian capital and Armenian statehood was formed.
Moreover, I am not giving my assessment on it now. I made my assessment right then as an opportunity to really make a breakthrough. Of course, later on, I repeat, the development of events went in a known direction, which created the opportunity and logic of another opportunity, which, however, ended with a heavy defeat and losses.
In no way do I want to equate Samvel Karapetyan’s Alliance-Aprelu Yerkir partnership with the occasion of 2016, let alone leave the impression of history repeating itself. However, the Armenian community has the opportunity for a new history, in the context of which I consider the agreement reached today to be truly significant and symbolic. No doubt it is not enough, but it is a certain tangible pillar to develop the overall structure.
Analyst Hakob Badalyan
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