“Zhamanak” looks forward to Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s visit to Brussels which begins on Wednesday. “Not only the new [Armenian] government must be qualitatively different from the previous one in terms of policies but also the European Union’s policy must be qualitatively different from its policy towards the previous authorities,” writes the paper.
“Zhoghovurd” reports that Samvel Babayan, Nagorno-Karabakh’s former military leader who was released from an Armenian prison last month, visited Stepanakert and met with Karabakh President Bako Sahakian on Tuesday. “This is a noteworthy event given Babayan’s personality and the fact that recently the political situation in Artsakh was a bit tense and Bako Sahakian assured [the local population] that he will not run in the 2020 presidential elections,” says the paper. “One can presume that Mr. Babayan has certain political interests seeing as political issues were also discussed at his meeting with Bako Sahakian.”
“Hraparak” comments on Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanian’s first meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov scheduled for Wednesday. The paper says that the meeting will be “decisive in terms of the continuation of negotiations” on a Karabakh settlement. It says that bellicose statements coming from Baku and recent Azerbaijani military exercises do not bode well for the success of renewed peace talks.
“Haykakan Zhamanak” reports on the prosecution of Serzh Sargsyan’s nephew Hayk on charges of attempted murder and illegal arms possession. “This is setting a new bar in the work of the new government,” writes the paper. “Until now there have been suggestions that in the fight against abuses [committed by the former regime] there is a red line which the government will not dare to cross and that red line is imprisonment of Serzh Sargsyan’s relatives. But in the event of Hayk Sargsyan’s arrest it will become evident that there is no such line.”
(Tigran Avetisian)
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