ArmInfo. It is high time for us, the Armenians, to start getting rid of myths in the spirit of "the whole world is against us," "we are against the whole world," "everything will only get worse and worse." Director of the Armenian Center for Strategic and National Studies Manvel Sargsyan expressed this opinion to ArmInfo.
"Armenian society has been kept in fear for the last 30 years, assuring people that the Turks are about to be slaughtered, destroyed, etc. People were afraid, they were silent and they are still silent today. This is not surprising, our society is scared and it is high time to overcome such phobias. It is necessary to understand what the world offers us today. And he offers us to understand what is relevant and what is archaic. Now, the Armenian authorities have substantially clarified the rhetoric of Artsakh, which has led our society, and so scared, to a state of horror, "he noted.
Meanwhile, according to a political analyst, the situation is almost the same in Azerbaijan, before which the Armenian authorities have put clear questions, making it clear that the time for jokes has passed. However, the Armenian society does not notice all this, for some reason, and the public agenda does not go beyond talking about Soros, garbage cans, etc. nonsense. According to the analyst, all this says one thing - it's time for the Armenian society to start healing.
According to the analyst, the society should realize the danger of aimless negotiations on Artsakh in the name of the negotiations themselves. To realize that all this will sooner or later lead to war, as happened in April 2016.
Nevertheless, some progress, according to his estimates, is still taking place. In particular, the speech of the Director of the National Security Service of Armenia on the border with Iran is an attempt to seriously talk, to instill in Baku the complete absence in Armenia of the desire to give something to someone.
According to his estimates, in his talks on Artsakh, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan adopted clear and simple principles understandable to the whole world. "Any settlement option should be acceptable to the peoples of Armenia, Karabakh and Azerbaijan." German Chancellor Angela Merkel immediately assessed these words as "a bold step to resolve the conflict," stressing the need for readiness for similar steps by Baku. And Baku's unwillingness to solve the problem on the basis of these principles deprives further negotiations of any meaning.