Gohar Meloyan, a lawyer and parliamentary candidate of the Strong Armenia party, said her team would reject any attempt to restart Armenia’s foreign policy from a “zero point,” arguing that similar approaches had already led to devastating consequences for Armenia and Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).

“We are not going to start from a zero point,” Meloyan said in an interview with CivilNet on Friday. “We have already witnessed the tragic consequences such an approach brought upon our state, nation, the Republic of Artsakh and Armenian statehood as a whole.”

Meloyan sharply criticized the current Armenian leadership, accusing it of failing to uphold the overwhelming majority of its political commitments while abandoning the very principles that brought it to power in 2018.

“We saw a government that returned to the electorate warning that if it was not re-elected, Artsakh would cease to exist,” she said. “The public entrusted them with its mandate, and today Artsakh no longer exists.”

She further accused Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s administration of political hypocrisy over the issue of extended tenure in office.

“The same political team that once denounced the prospect of a third term in power and built an entire revolution around opposing it is now aspiring to a third term itself,” Meloyan said. “This government has failed to fulfill roughly 80 to 90 percent of the promises outlined in its program.”

Addressing questions about TRIPP (the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity), Meloyan said the initiative could present opportunities for Armenia, but stressed that any engagement must remain firmly grounded in national interests.

“TRIPP may offer certain opportunities,” she said. “But any opportunity that emerges must be carefully balanced and evaluated through the prism of Armenia’s national interests.”