June: 18, 2026
Nikol Pashinyan in a press conference with journalists after the Cabinet meeting today, talking about the visit of Aliyev’s aide Hikmet Hajiyev to Armenia, said that he personally instructed Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan to organize such a meeting.
Yesterday, during the question-and-answer session with the Government in the parliament, Nikol Pashinyan, speaking again about Hajiyev’s visit, said, “We must look at our situation with an outside eye.”
“In the outside world, and not only in Azerbaijan, a question may arise: Are there 500,000 citizens in Armenia who think that we should go to take Armenia from sea to sea, or to bring back Karabakh, or to go to Karabakh, review the peace agreement, and what is written in the agreement, nothing, we will not do it, are there 500,000 citizens?
If the perception is that there are so many people… We need a constitutional majority to rule out war, if we don’t manage this situation now, and a perception is created that there are 500,000 people in RA who say we should continue the Karabakh movement, that is, I mean the sum of the votes recorded in favor of the three-headed war party, it will seriously worsen the military-political situation in RA, especially in the conditions that we have today army In other words, a question may arise: can that army end up in the hands of those people… I mean this. We know the reality that there are not so many people, but electoral bribes have been distributed with the help of external forces who are interested in the region will explode.”had said Nikol Pashinyan.
Political scientist Stepan Danielyan according to him, this statement is the continuation of Nikol Pashinyan’s famous statement, according to which he said: “If I am not elected, there will be a war, and there is an opposition that is a fighter for war, there are revanchists”, etc.
“This is blackmail, and through this blackmail, he is trying to give an ideological basis to his re-election, saying that if he is not there, there will be a war.
Now he has been re-elected in a famous way, and there are arguments that he is not legitimate, these elections and his legitimacy are in question. It is no coincidence that even the structures under Western influence in RA also dispute the results of the elections.
It is believed that there was a certain agreement between Russia and the United States in connection with the Armenian elections, that the public should choose whoever it chooses.” of 168.am Stepan Danielyan said in a conversation with
According to him, there are obvious violations, especially in connection with 3 polling stations, where votes were canceled, which affected the structure of the National Assembly.
The political scientist is sure that both Russia and the West have posed a problem to Nikol Pashinyan, first of all, the United States as well, that these elections were problematic, which actually causes problems for Russia-USA relations.
“Under these circumstances, what should Nikol Pashinyan do? His main bet is on Turkey and Azerbaijan, because the threat of war comes from those two countries. He must get legitimacy from there, and the legitimacy is that he “brings peace.”
In this regard, he is right in saying that he urged the Secretary of the Security Council to invite Hajiyev to Armenia to show that “we are in dialogue”, he should receive some support from Turkey and Azerbaijan,” our interlocutor added.
As for Nikol Pashinyan’s other statement that, “if the elections are rigged, then why is the square empty?”, Stepan Danielyan noted that since he did not get legitimacy through the elections, he thinks that he can get some legitimacy on the streets, that is, he thinks that the opposition cannot fill the streets, but he will be able to.
“Nikol Pashinyan, who went to the elections with violations, is trying to gain legitimacy on the streets, he needs the opposition to bring people to the streets. I think the opposition should not bring people to the streets, and since time is working against Pashinyan, they will bring people to the streets later, we should not move with Pashinyan’s agenda.
Considering Pashinyan’s way of working, there will be a street fight, but it will be in an extreme economic situation, when people will understand what ontological problems this person has caused for them and the country,” Stepan Danielyan emphasized.
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