External image through internal barriers

What will the government of Georgia, for example, think, seeing how Nikol Pashinyan arbitrarily forbids the Catholicos of All Armenians to go to Georgia and participate in the funeral of Ilya II?

And that Nikol Pashinyan forbids, not the court, I think no sane person has any doubt here.

So, what will the government of Georgia think about it? I am not saying that Tbilisi has nothing else to think about and should think about it. Simply, it is indisputable that they will be interested, and therefore a tacit position will be formed.

What will it look like? Will they think that Nikol Pashinyan is a very “strong guy” or, on the contrary, will they appreciate how narrow-minded Pashinyan really is? The whole issue is that such internal episodes are also of great importance for the external image and external perceptions of the leaders of the state. A person cannot be narrow-minded inside and broad-minded outside.

And taking into account the fact that Georgia in the conditions of the current geopolitical realities has a special significance for Armenia, although it has always been so, it is extremely important how the government of Armenia will be perceived by the government of Georgia simply in its descriptive sense.

There is no doubt that Tbilisi has a “positional” advantage, for very obvious reasons. And this is where the issue of perceptions and attitude at the personal level becomes very important for the balance of relations and possible discussions. And this is not at all a question measured by toasts or playing the “udarnik”. It’s all primitive entourage. In practice, perceptions are dictated, derived from deeper behavioral contours, which are expressed perhaps more in the inner life of the behavior of the given government.

Analyst Hakob Badalyan

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