#pashinyan

[sevaghves]

I see some misunderstanding among Armenians about the capabilities our state, the Republic of Armenia, has had in the last two decades.

The corruption of the previous governments left the army in a really bad shape. Their incompetence and subjugation to Russia lowered our position in the Karabakh negotiations to 0. Same about relationship with the West. US and EU were very favorable to Armenia in late 1990s but grew to mistrust us due to Sargsyan and Kocharyan's loyalty to Putin.

Russia has been arming Azeris more heavily than us for over a decade. It is no secret that Putin's plan is to recreate the Russian empire and the only reason Putin isn't touching Azerbaijan is that it already belongs to Turkey.

In these circumstances, we entered the 2020 war without the things we needed the most: a well-armed and trained army, and good relations with world powers.

Nikol Pashinyan's government was well aware of Russia's intentions and pledged to maintain the same foreign policy as the previous governments to prevent bloodshed in Artsakh. It didn't work because Putin already knew how weak our country was. Why negotiate with someone you can easily outpower? The West didn't react to Pashinyan's signals, because they had a bad experience in Georgia and didn't want to interfere if things went south again in the South Caucasus.

After the 2020 disaster, Pashinyan's government faced the same external threats, but with even less resources. In the negotiations, every independent move that protected Armenia's sovereignty was punished by Russia through Azeri attacks on our borders.

The war in Ukraine changed a lot. The West grew very concerned with territorial integrity of states. Azerbaijan couldn't make more land grabs without consequences. Artsakh thus remained the only leverage Russia had on Armenia, which gave Armenians hope that the ethnic cleansing of 2020 would not resume as it would mean the end of legal Russian presence in this region.

For the West, it is far more convenient to work with Armenia without Artsakh. Russia's apparent betrayal is also in the West's favor.

Could Pashinyan's government have done more?

The problem isn't that they aren't making reforms and correcting the foreign policy. The problem is that they are too slow and they lack political foresight to be proactive. Unable to fight for Artsakh now, they seem to have chosen to let the ethnic cleansing happen to justify severing ties with Russia and turning towards the West.

This government chose to fight in 2020 when they had no chance of winning. They chose not to repeat that in 2023. Only the lack of a coherent and competent political force that could compete with this government in the elections has kept Pashinyan in power. Everyone else is just worse than his team.

But we as citizens must admit our own share of blame. We underestimated the danger. We didn't prepare for war. We put all responsibility on the government we knew wasn't effective enough.

This is our chance to unite and reunite as a nation. Train and prepare for conflicts. Be better educated about foreign affairs. Demand higher standard from politicians. Stop criticizing each other for having a different opinion. Work together to become stronger and produce a better political elite.

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Armenian PM Pashinyan resigns top officials

Six cabinet members resigned on Monday after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan criticised the poor performance of judicial, legal and law enforcement agencies last week.

Rumours of the resignation of cabinet members first emerged on Sunday evening. On Monday morning, information about the resignation was confirmed by Argishti Kyaramyan, who has headed Armenia’s Investigative Committee since 2021. He said in a statement:

“This stems from a reassessment of the situation related to the functioning of the law enforcement system.”

Kyaramyan thanked Nikol Pashinyan and his government for their trust.

Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Gnel Sanosyan, Chairman of the State Revenue Committee Rustam Badasyan, Head of the Anti-Corruption Committee Sasun Khachatryan, Head of the Supreme Judicial Council Karen Andreasyan are also leaving their posts. Armenian media reported that MPs Hovik Aghazaryan and Narek Zeynalyan from Nikol Pashinyan’s ruling Civil Pact party will soon resign their mandates. The PM summoned most of them to his office for a conversation on November 17.

Pashinyan explained his decision on Facebook:

“The reasons for making such a request are not personal, but systemic, as I have said publicly. At the same time, I cannot deny their merits in the development of our statehood and thank them all for their contribution and understanding of my request.”

On November 15, speaking at a government session, Nikol Pashinyan criticised the work of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies. Citizens complain about the growth of crimes in the country and the high level of corruption, the Prime Minister said. Pashinyan also warned:

“My patience is exhausted. I tell you straight: the end of this has come. This cannot continue.”

Read more HERE

[hayarthun]

What else does Pashinyan intend to deliver? International contingent in Artsakh. The Armenian people will resist.

[dadsinsuits]

Nikol Pashinyan

[hottiesbooted]

Russian Model: Nonna Pashinyan // NUNE PASHINIAN (@_nonnaofficial99_ - deactived // @nune_pashinian)

16 november 2021.

Black Leather Thigh Boots Pointed High heeled.

[notyourangelxo]

The Prime Minister of Armenia posted a selfie-style TikTok of himself looking around while playing the "I've been a nasty gurlll" song and I'm SO tempted to comment "Mr. President, sir, what does this mean?!"

[warningsine]

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/armenias-pm-says-he-must-return-disputed-areas-azerbaijan-or-face-war-tass-2024-03-19/

TBILISI, March 19 (Reuters) - Armenia could face a war with Azerbaijan if it does not compromise with Baku and return four Azerbaijani villages it has held since the early 1990s, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in a video published on Tuesday.

Pashinyan was speaking during a meeting on Monday with residents of border areas in northern Armenia's Tavush region, close to a string of deserted Azerbaijani villages that Yerevan has controlled since the early 1990s.

The four villages, which have been uninhabited for over 30 years, are of strategic value to Armenia as they straddle the main road between Yerevan and the Georgian border.

Azerbaijan has said the return of its lands, which also include several tiny enclaves entirely surrounded by Armenian territory, is a necessary precondition for a peace deal to end three decades of conflict over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which Baku's forces retook last September.

Russia's TASS state news agency quoted Pashinyan as telling residents in the video clip that was circulated by his government that failure to compromise over the disputed villages could lead to war with Azerbaijan "by the end of the week".

"I know how such a war would end," he added.

Yerevan suffered a major defeat last September when Baku's forces retook Nagorno-Karabakh in a lightning offensive, prompting almost all of that region's estimated 100,000 ethnic Armenians to flee to Armenia.

Though Karabakh is recognised internationally as Azerbaijani territory, the region's ethnic Armenians had enjoyed de facto independence from Baku since the war of the early 1990s.

PEACE TREATY

Baku and Yerevan have said they now want to sign a formal peace treaty, but talks have become bogged down in issues including demarcation of their 1,000 km (620 mile) shared border, which remains closed and heavily militarised.

Pashinyan has signalled in recent weeks that he is willing to return Azerbaijani land controlled by Armenia, and suggested rerouting Armenia's road network to avoid Azerbaijani territory.

Mainly Muslim Azerbaijan also continues to control areas internationally recognised as part of Christian Armenia.

Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday his country was "closer than ever" to a peace with Armenia, in remarks made after holding talks with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Baku.

Stoltenberg held talks on Tuesday with Pashinyan in Armenia, which is nominally a Russian ally though its relations with Moscow have deteriorated in recent months over what Yerevan says is Russia's failure to protect it from Azerbaijan.

As a result, Armenia has pivoted its foreign policy towards the West, to Moscow's chagrin, with senior officials suggesting it might one day apply for European Union membership.

In a statement posted on Tuesday on the Telegram messaging app, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova suggested Yerevan's deepening ties with the West were the reason for Armenia having to make concessions to Azerbaijan.

[metamorphesque]

BRIEFLY ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ARMENIA

The present government of Armenia, under the leadership of the infamous madman Nikol Pashinyan, has made the decision to cede some Armenian territory to Azerbaijan, a neighboring country that has relentlessly waged war against Armenia for decades, leaving scars of loss and anguish in its wake. On April 19, the Armenian and Azerbaijani border demarcation commissions agreed to initiate border demarcation proceedings starting from the Tavush region. The delineation of the border sections will be based on coordinates clarified through geodetic measurements on-site, with completion expected by May 15th, 2024. Representatives of the Armenian Prime Minister announced that, as a consequence, Azerbaijan would gain control over 2.5 villages, purportedly leading to a reduction in security risks for the Republic of Armenia. This decision has been likened to extending a hand to a voracious beast in the hope that it will miraculously abandon its predatory instincts and refrain from further aggression. Those familiar with the historical tensions between these nations recognize this as the initial step toward Armenia's capitulation. Since April 19, residents of Tavush border villages, supported by demonstrators from across the country, have been staging protests along the Armenia-Georgia interstate road. Despite these protests, 35 border posts have already been erected along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border. Opponents of the border delimitation, led by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, head of the Diocese of Tavush, are marching from Kirants—one of the affected villages—to Yerevan in an attempt to halt the border demarcation process. Archbishop Bagrat Sacrosanct previously declared that the movement would reach Yerevan by the afternoon of May 9, where they will present specific demands to the government. The participants demand an end to the concessionary policy and unilateral concessions endorsed by the government, which will, without a shadow of a doubt, endanger the safety of Armenians and Armenia as an independent country. Hence, every single one of us needs to be politically conscious. Who knows? Perhaps one day your leader, too, will decide to sell parts of your country to your enemy.

[mariacallous]

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Azerbaijan may be preparing for military aggression against his country as the term "Western Azerbaijan," has become increasingly popular in public discourse in Azerbaijan.

During a Nov. 18 speech at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Yerevan, Pashinyan claimed Azerbaijan media, schools, and universities had started calling Armenia this way, warning the rhetoric could signal Baku's desire to start an offensive military operation.

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned a select group of lawmakers that Azerbaijan might be planning to invade Armenia in the coming weeks, Politico reported on Oct. 13.

Officials familiar with the discussion told Politico that Blinken spoke about the possibility of an invasion in a conference call on Oct. 3.

The call addressed officials' questions about the U.S. response to Azerbaijan's September offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh.

During the call, Blinken reportedly told lawmakers that the State Department will not renew an established agreement that permits the U.S. to offer Azerbaijan military aid. The agreement has been renewed every year since 2002 but lapsed in June.

In the same conversation, Blinken warned that Azerbaijan may invade southern Armenia.

Of particular concern is the southern region of Syunik, which Azerbaijan calls the Zangezur Corridor and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has repeatedly referred to as "Western Azerbaijan."

In mid-September, the Azerbaijani military launched a lightning offensive against the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, an unrecognized Armenian state within the territory of Azerbaijan. Local authorities eventually surrendered in a ceasefire mediated by Russia.

A formal decree was later signed, dissolving all official institutions of the breakaway state from Jan. 1, 2024. Following Azerbaijan's victory, around 100,000 people have left Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia.

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Thousands rally in Armenia demanding PM’s resignation

Large-scale protests demanding the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan continue for a second day following a weekend demonstration.

After a rally of thousands on Sunday and an overnight vigil in pouring rain, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Armenian parliament building in Yerevan on Monday.

The demonstrations organised in opposition to the decision to hand over four abandoned border villages to Baku to settle long-standing territorial disputes between the Caucasian neighbours. The territory, which Armenia has controlled since the 1990s, reclaimed last week.

The protests against Pashinyan, who has also led Armenia to cool relations with Russia, are led by Bagrat Galstanyan, an archbishop who at the weekend called for a “new dialogue” with Moscow.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought two wars over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan reclaimed last year from Armenians who controlled the enclave for three decades. Opponents call the return of the territory a betrayal. Many believe it was Pashinyan’s short-sighted policies that led to the liquidation of Nagorno-Karabakh, forcing hundreds of thousands of Armenians to leave the territory. Pashinyan said it was a necessary step to avoid a new war.

Yerevan accused Baku of ethnic cleansing, which Pashinyan himself acknowledged. “The withdrawal of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh as a result of Azerbaijan’s policy of ethnic cleansing continues. Analysis shows that in the coming days there will be no more Armenians left in Nagorno-Karabakh. This is a real act of ethnic cleansing and depatriation, which we have been warning the international community about for a long time,” the Armenian Prime Minister said during a government session on September 28.

On Sunday, Galstanyan, who has said he hopes to change the prime minister, announced the start of four days of rallies for his resignation. Galstanyan, who has called on parliament to hold an impeachment vote on Tuesday, said:

“For four days, we will stay in the streets and squares, and with our determination and will, we will achieve victory.”

Thousands of people gathered outside government headquarters on Sunday and then marched to parliament. If the impeachment vote is successful, an interim government will need to form and early parliamentary elections will need to take place.

The protesters promise to keep coming to mass rallies in an attempt to preserve Armenia’s sovereignty and the safety of its citizens.

Read more HERE

[hayarthun]

The truth about the traitor of Armenian interests.

The whole truth about the people's representative Nikol Pashinyan (Serzh Sargsyan's protégé), who can calmly ride a bicycle without security on state television channels.

[dadsinsuits]

Nikol Pashinyan

[allthegeopolitics]

Armenia has agreed to return several villages to Azerbaijan in what both countries say is an important milestone as they edge towards a peace deal after fighting two wars since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Aykhan Hajizada posted on the social media platform X on Friday that Armenia would return four villages near the countries’ shared border that had been “under occupation” since the early 1990s. He called it a “long-awaited historic event”. In Armenia, the state news agency quoted Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s office as saying: “In this process, the Republic of Armenia receives a reduction in risks associated with border delimitation and security.”

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Russian Border Guards to Withdraw from Armenia-Iran Border Checkpoint by January 2025

MOSCOW — Russian border guards will withdraw from Armenia’s sole border crossing with Iran by January 1, 2025, while remaining deployed along other sections of the border, the Armenian government announced on Tuesday. Nazeli Baghadasaryan, spokeswoman for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, stated that this agreement was reached during discussions between Pashinyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier that day. “At the checkpoint on the Armenia-Iran state border, the service will be carried out entirely by the Border Guard Troops of Armenia’s National Security Service,” Baghadasaryan wrote on Facebook. She also mentioned that starting next year, Armenian border guards…

[workersolidarity]

🇦🇿🇦🇲 🚨 HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE RESULTS OF NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN

Baku and Yerevan published a joint statement according to which:

🔸Azerbaijan releases 32 Armenian soldiers as a gesture of goodwill

🔸Armenia releases two Azerbaijani servicemen

🔸Armenia withdraws its candidacy to host the 29th session of COP-29 on climate change in support of Azerbaijan’s candidacy

🔸At the negotiations between the Aliyev Administration and Pashinyan’s Office, an agreement was reached to take tangible steps to strengthen mutual trust

🔸Baku and Yerevan confirm their desire to normalize relations and reach a peace treaty based on sovereignty and territorial integrity

Via@RiaNovosti

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