ArmInfo.In his speech at the National Assembly yesterday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan admitted that he was being forced to come to terms with the loss of Artsakh behind the doors of his Brussels offices. Political strategist Vigen Hakobyan expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
"Pashinyan admitted that the Armenian agenda on Artsakh is now devoid of any assistance and support in the international arena. The latter means the need for new concessions from Yerevan on the Artsakh issue. This, in fact, was announced by the prime minister from the rostrum of the parliament, announcing the need to lower the Armenian bar on the demands over the status of Artsakh, otherwise the existence of not only Artsakh, but also Armenia may be threatened, Pashinyan is preparing the ground for pragmatic concessions on the issue of the status of Artsakh," he believes.
According to Hakobyan, refusal to determine the status of Artsakh on the basis of the right of its population to self-determination, means consent to autonomy or cultural autonomy within Azerbaijan. And this is at best. Noting that the proposals of the OSCE Minsk Group on the settlement of the conflict – the Madrid principles are far from the supreme dream of Yerevan and Stepanakert, the political strategist recalled that these proposals at least assumed the protection of Armenian interests. At a minimum, in the form of fixing the right of self-determination of the people of Artsakh through a referendum.
This is what the political strategist determines the post-war position of Yerevan, which considers it possible to resume negotiations in the Minsk format even after the defeat in the 44-day war. And the fact that the format of a single co-chairmanship of the OSCE Minsk Group actually no longer exists, according to his estimates, means the destruction of the principles of settlement formed within its framework, including the right of self-determination of the people of Artsakh. And all this against the background of the absence of any other format that would deal with the final settlement of the conflict and determine the status of Artsakh.
"And here we are again returning to the situation around Ukraine, the current stage of the tough confrontation between the West and Russia, which, as we see, has already been projected on Artsakh. As a result, Russia from a country cooperating with the West within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group has become into a country conflicting with the West. Accordingly, the statements of the co-chairs from the United States and France on the preservation of the format of the OSCE Minsk Group mean that it is maintained, but without Russia. And the goal of the collective West is to oust the Russian Federation from all possible international cooperation formats. Under such conditions, Armenia needs huge professional, intellectual, analytical, diplomatic, geopolitical resources to confront all these disappointing international realities. It is necessary to understand the situation in order to get out of all this with at least minimal losses. Resources, the existence of which I strongly doubt," summed up the political strategist.