“Armenia has become a state that no one needs” — First Informational

First Informational’s interlocutor is Moscow-based independent human rights advocate Arbak Khachatryan.

— Mr. Khachatryan, at the meeting of the Eurasian Economic Union’s founding council in Astana, Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev read out Aliyev’s letter stating that Armenia could join the union within borders recognized by the UN. It was initially announced that Armenia was to be a founding member of the union. Can we now say that Armenia’s membership itself is in question?

— There will be changes in this project every day. The man says that the union’s members will have equal power, but they are already setting conditions for Armenia; it really is unclear what will happen. Armenia is a state that has completely lost its position in the international arena, with a leader who has lost his position and has neither an apparatus nor institutions. It is fighting for something that is not real; joining this union after all of this is foolish, to say the least.

Lukashenko fought for years and managed, despite having neither wealth nor advantages, at least to put forward his demands. Armenia, meanwhile, shows no strategic approach, takes no diplomatic steps, and sits silently listening to Aliyev’s letter.

The position in Europe was different: there, problems are approached more diplomatically, and Serzh Sargsyan was able to make statements, even concerning Turkey and Azerbaijan. But here, can you imagine what would have happened if he had answered Nazarbayev? Armenia has not even recognized Artsakh’s self-determination to this day; it has found itself in a terrible and unenviable situation. There will be many such letters and approaches; this is only the beginning. Armenia has completely lost its position.

Mariam Grigoryan

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