Our strategic task is to achieve de-escalation within the country and at the borders. A week or two ago, at the beginning of the campaign, I said that the greatest danger is if we think that the fate of Armenia will be decided in some other capital. The fate of Armenia is not decided in Moscow, Washington, Brussels, or Paris. The fate of Armenia is decided in Yerevan. And June 7 is exclusively internal Armenian elections. If we think otherwise, it will be decided in Baku.
Unfortunately, there is still no proper perception of this imperative idea in our pre-election stage.
We are recording a significant escalation within our country. Our four sides are a problem, we are going on the path of escalation internally. The idea of internal solidarity, which was the leading principle of the Propose Armenia PAP program, faced a barrage of aggression and threats from ONE person. What does Armenia gain? What do we gain? No one wins.
We also got an escalation on the external border, in this case, in relations with Russia. Was the price of playing Zelensky worth it, that many branches of our economy face the real danger of bankruptcy?
Zelensky was in Baku before coming to Yerevan. But he did not make provocative anti-Russian statements there. He did not say a word. He considered that provocations cannot be made in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan is not that country, but it is possible in Armenia. Why did he do that? Let’s think about this.
By the way, there is information circulating in the Azerbaijani press that it is possible that R. Vardanyan should be extradited to Ukraine, allegedly for financing anti-Ukrainian activities in Donbass.
I don’t know if it’s true or a bait. In both cases, it is very dangerous. We should not let anyone try to make our country a new Ukraine. There are many people who want it, our seriousness is our weapon.
There is no rational answer as to why the government is radicalizing the atmosphere. It’s not a time to hold power, it’s not a time for various transformations. Why does the program, even if it is a sharp debate, change the atmosphere to radicalization? That issue should be discussed within the government itself. No one will benefit from it. Internal escalation will very quickly lead to external escalation, in one way or another, in one way or another.
Vahe Hovhannisyan
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