Armenia is experiencing its greatest crisis in close to a century. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan just signed away significant amounts of Lernayin Artsakh’s territory, the adjacent buffer zone regions and agreed to a corridor connecting the exclave of Nakhichevan to Azerbaijan thereby fulfilling the long-held pan-Turkish desire of connecting Turkey to its “brotherly state” of Azerbaijan and beyond towards the Turkic peoples of Central Asia.
In addition to the emotional toll of the unmitigated loss of historic territory to its enemies—a pattern that seems to continue with rare pause in Armenia’s modern history—there is also a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the resettlement of tens of thousands of refugees, the imminent destruction of millennia-old Armenian cultural heritage sites and churches in the ceded lands, as well as brewing civil unrest and division both domestically and in the diaspora.
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I commend the authors as they articulated many numerous questions that are not to blame the current leadership , but to enlighten the public in the various known facts, and unknown present conditions. The term Unity has been used indiscriminately, and if by chance you believe for the good of the nation that Pashinyan must step aside, then those who push for unity are not following their own message of allowing the opposition a voice. Unity can be about moving forward with new leadership.
Bottom line- in a parliamentary system of government , the leader of a lost war, and lost lands, simply has to resign under a vote of no confidence, no matter how ” God ” like his past accomplishments may or may not be.
As President Truman said. ” The bucks stops here. Mr. PM, It’s time to go, for the security and future of our beloved Armenia/ Artsakh. I’ll pack your bags!
Nikol Pashniyan must step down, he failed to start wartime production of X-55, sending patriots into meat grinder without air cover. At a pricetag of 1.5 M compared to 5M of Bakhtyar, we could have had 3 for every Azheri drone.
Armenia and Armenians need to step up thier Game in every aspect of life and Country Keeping including modernizing thier military and economic structure. ASAP.
Very impressive and first class article. It really addresses numerous points, dynamic, strategic, and it especially elicits the character and motives of PM Pashinyan. If there was one thing I may have liked to see is to accentuate the urgency of the resignation of the PM by doing the right thing and the noble thing for Armenia and Armenians before the world at this sensitive juncture. Perhaps this is omitted for a reason to soften his stony heart on the unjust arrests of the ARF members and to expedite their release!
This is a biased article and is designed to further divide the Armenian people. For example, the authors criticize the government for the arrests of Vanetsyan and his gang, conveniently failing to mention the attempted assassination of the Prime Minister. Why I ask? Should the authorities allow the illegal and violent overthrow of the government? Vanetsyan, most recently, threatened Mr. Pashinyan and his family with physical harm, while on bail for the initial crime! Yet, the article is silent about it. All this that were arrested, were arrested for breaking the law and will be prosecuted according to the law.
As for resigning, the only people that want that are his political opponents doing the bidding of billionaire oligarchs for obvious reasons.
PM Pashinyan IS the only person that can and will rid Armenia of corruption!
The army loves him and so are the people of Armenia and Artsakh.
Those that want to cancel the recent ceasefire agreement offer nothing. It is rather easy from behind the computer screen, thousands of miles away from the bombs and rockets to criticize the actions of a leader who did what needed to be done to save Artsakh and the lives of 20,000+ soldiers.
I’m very disappointed to read these types of articles which offer nothing constructive.
It seems that the war was completely mismanaged. The full potential of the Armenian military was not used for what ever reason. Yes other factors like the theft of wealth by the past Karabakh presidents which caused massive emigration and years of loss of financial military resources for purely self gain, plus the possible miscalculation of the Russian “ally” assistance scenario and overestimation of Armenia’s ability of being the security guarantor of Artsakhs against not only Azerbaijan but Armenians enemies like Turkey, Israel and foreign mercenaries, all played a role, but Pashinyans clear lack of political or military savvy is perfectly clear. Not sure what Pashinyan can do or say anymore that can gloss over the major loss that will be felt by all Armenians for generations to come that this man at the helm now represents. He seems to have a ‘look on the bright side’ approach. The only positive approach is definitely Universal Armenian unity. 17 current factions is ridiculous. However its tough to be united with a leader who represents such major loss for all Armenians.
Oh the poor ARF members. Such pillars of Armenia and Artsakh over the years. And how many seats in the parliament did the people vote for them to claim?
A precise, well reasoned article gentlemen.
In response to Armen Tashjian’s comment above about your “conveniently failing to mention the attempted assassination of the Prime Minister” just so there is no misunderstanding, the so-called assassination attempt referenced by Tashjian was summarily thrown out of court after Nikol’s arresting agency had to admit to tampering with and altering audio evidence to make it sound like such a plot was in the making. The only prosecution that should now take place is for the bogus and fraudulent charges concocted by Nikol and his dimwitted henchmen.
Whether by virtue of incompetence or treachery, Pashinyan is an abject failure and for the good of what remains of the Armenian Nation must go…and quickly.