Armenian Authorities Ready to Make Concessions to Foreign Authorities, But Not to Opposition: Anahit Bakhshyan

The first responses to the round table proposal by the Heritage Party addressed to the country’s ruling authorities and opposition give food for thought, Heritage Party faction member Anahit Bakhshyan said at a April 6 parliamentary session.

According to Bakhshyan, the response creates the impression that the ruling authorities are ready to make any concessions whatsoever to foreign powers only to make none to their own country’s opposition, to civic society, and to private citizens, which would strengthen the state and make it more realistic that Armenia will not make any concessions in foreign policy that would put its national interests under threat.

On the one hand, according to Bakhshyan, some opposition members, in turn, are ready to encourage the authorities to make foreign concessions during this dangerous period, and on the other hand, they might incite a “social explosion.”

“Unfortunately, Armenia, at the hands of these two uncompromising powers, may find itself on the edge of a disaster similar to the handing over of the Kars castle in 1920, the next scene of which was the loss of the state. I call on everybody to be sober,” said Bakhshyan.