(MENAFN- AzerNews)
Rena Murshud read more After the rightful confession of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol
Pashinyan regarding to Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, some
artificially organized protests in Armenia began to take a large
scope. With the support and intervention of the separatists and
diaspora forces abroad, a chaos began to rage within the country,
the purpose of which is not understood.
Currently, the Armenian society is divided into two groups; some
of them are a group of people who come to terms with reality and
leave the old ideology behind. Others are separatist people who are
still living in the dreams of past Armenian fictions and false
promises. But there is another group who are not even aware of what
is happening inside the country. In other words, they are blindly
taking steps under the influence of separatists with no goal and
deal a serious blow to the future of Armenia.
Political analyst Farhad Mammadov, in a commented on the issue
for Azernews, said that he believes that the events have disturbed
the traditional opposition and their followers for two main
reasons.
“As regards the external forces, Pashinyan's statement destroys
the ideological paradigms associated with both Azerbaijan and
Turkiye, which have been formed in Armenia for decades. Because he
noted that Karabakh is within the territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan, and at the same time he made a statement about Aghri
Dagh (the so called name in Armenian mount ararat). Literally, the
provocations by the traditional opposition, diaspora groups abroad
and even by the church occured after Pashinyan's statements on the
above matter.”
Further to his comments, the political analyst and the head of
the South Caucasus Research Center added that in general,
prolonging the conflict is more in Russia's interests. Because
Russia wants to continue its presence in this region and emerge as
managing part of the conflict.
“In general, Russia's economic policy in the South Caucasus and
political dialogues with two other states, with the exception of
Georgia, are at a high level. Although Georgia does not engage in
political dialogue with Russia, it is currently implementing its
policies in line with Russia's expectations. In other words, the
use of conflicts in such conditions to expand its influence in the
region is an indicator of Russia's preference for obsolete
politics. As regards some external forces that impede the process
of peace talks and normalization of relations between Azerbaijan
and Armenia, these are Armenian diaspora abroad and some forces in
Russia,” Mammadov said.
According to him, last year, after a svery soft announcement,
thousands of people took to the streets and protested for weeks.
However, despite a little time has passed since this statement, we
do not see any mass protests. This means that the Armenian society
is reconciling with the reality in the region.
"Despite the fact that people have the right to gather and
protest, nowadays, almost 95 percent of the Armenian population
confess Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan's territory. If there are no
protests in the coming weeks, then in the near future we will see
how Pashinyan breaks through the internal barrier and makes a clear
statement," the political analyst opined.
As for the question of whether Pashinyan will be able to calm
the political unrest within his government, the expert answered
that Pashinyan is an absolute leader of Armenia that has been
elected according to its own constitution.
"If we look at the internal politics of Armenia, Pashinyan is
legitimate. Power structures exist in his hands. During these days,
he purged the government from former officials (police, army
leadership) en masse.
I have no doubt that there will be observed serious provocations
during, and after the signing of the peace treaty. However, since
Pashinyan is considered a legitimate Prime Minister, I believe that
he will overcome this crisis.
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