Ruben Rubinyan says that after becoming the Speaker of the National Assembly, he will no longer be a special envoy for the regulation of Armenian-Turkish relations, and notes that the conspiracies towards his election explode.

Hardly, though. If he will not be a special envoy for issues of Armenian-Turkish relations regulation, it still does not mean that his appearance in the position of the speaker of the parliament is not primarily conditioned by the circumstance of a “trustworthy” step or gesture for Turkey.

Moreover, his appointment to the post of the Speaker of the National Assembly can essentially indicate that the “organism” of the so-called Armenian-Turkish process is changing, and the format of special envoys is becoming “expired”. In other words, it can be preserved, but itself remains as a formality.

And perhaps Ursula Von Der Leyen, or Martha Kos, Kaya Kallas, other EU officials will become real envoys of the Armenian-Turkish process.

By the way, let me remind you that Kos and Callas were in Turkey on June 30 and negotiated with Ankara before Von Der Leyen’s visit to Baku and then to Yerevan on July 1.

Analyst Hakob Badalyan

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