Nikol Pashinyan`s replacement not in serious actors` interests – analyst

ArmInfo.No serious global geopolitical actor is discontent with Armenian Premier Nikol Pashinyan’s foreign policy, the political analyst Armen Hovhannisyan  said in an interview with ArmInfo. 

“In this context, I do not see any reasons for redrawing up a foreign  policy agenda and for replacing yielding Pashinyan with one even more  yielding, including in the relations with Russia our parliamentary  opposition forces have fixed their eyes on in hope. It is common  knowledge. And it affects the prospects for success of the opposition  marches throughout Armenia,” Mr Hovsepyan said.  

The 30-point joint statement signed during the Armenian premier’s  visit to Moscow is nothing but one more proof. And by condemning the  NATO expansion the Armenian premier became the second leader, after  President Lukashenko, to show an eccentric approach to this global  political issue.  

The Armenian premier’s steps are met with silence on the part of even  the states that have traditionally voted for Russia at different  international organizations. Lukashenko and, for some reasons,  Pashinyan are the only ones that are openly stating their positions,  with Pashinyan signing a joint 30-point statement with Putin.

In any case, signing a peace agreement – as it is being viewed in  Baku, Ankara and now in Moscow – with Azerbaijan will by no means  raise Pashinyan’s popularity rating, which, among other things, is in  Russia’s interests, as it will enable Russia to “lead him by the  nose.”  

Thus, the protests by the parliamentary opposition are, on the one  hand, are kind of guarantee Armenia’s premier will go on being “led”  to signing the previously reached verbal agreements. On the other  hand, it is an attempt to fill the “opposition vacuum,” as, “in the  context of its dislike for color revolutions, Russia’s leadership  has, so to say, to take preventive measures in the regions under its  influence from time to time,” Mr Hovhannisyan said.