Մատչելիության հղումներ

Press Review


“Zhoghovurd” speculates that Armenia’s leadership is now exploring possibilities of countering possible attempts by Russia to clinch additional Armenian concessions to Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh. “[Russian Foreign Minister Sergey] Lavrov is now coming to Yerevan to hear the Armenian authorities’ answer,” claims the paper. “This is being done amid a fairly strong Russian-Azerbaijani information attack.”

In this regard, “Zhamanak” points to a report by the Moscow daily “Izvestia” that disclosed purported details of a new Russian peace plan on Karabakh. The paper says that the Russian government leaked those details while knowing that they could only complicate renewed Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations. “One can therefore presume that Moscow is not intent on pushing through a peace plan at this point,” it says. “Not because it has no such desire but because Moscow has no capacity to do that even if it tries hard.”

“Russian newspapers will not say why Russia wants to resolve a conflict whose being unresolved has been an important component of Russian foreign policy,” writes “168 Zham.” “Russian newspapers are not saying that the main purpose of this is to achieve Azerbaijan’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Russian newspapers are not saying that in return for that membership the Russian side has pledged to exert pressure on Armenia in order to ensure that those territories [around Karabakh] are returned to Azerbaijan. And they are not saying that Lavrov is coming to Yerevan in order to get the Armenian authorities’ answer on this matter.”

“Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” says that President Serzh Sarkisian will trigger angry protests in Armenia and Karabakh and risk losing power if he bows to the alleged Russian pressure. Russia, the paper says, may counter that Sarkisian has never reckoned with public opinion and can press ahead with unpopular concessions. “So there is no way out in sight,” claims the pro-opposition paper. “The authorities’ only hope is that they will miraculously manage to hold negotiations for several more years. But the likelihood of that is not that high. And if the authorities have decided to stall for time, then the only solution is Serzh Sarkisian’s resignation.”

(Tigran Avetisian)

XS
SM
MD
LG