Capitulation is what Armenian authorities expect from our public – Karen Bekaryan

Political analyst Karen Bekaryan on Wednesday shared his concerns over the Armenian authorities’ somewhat friendly attitude towards Turkey over the recent period, highlighting “in-depth causes” underlying their starkly visible reverances.

In his televised review covering the past week’s political developments, he also warned of threats of a “total capitulation”.

“The part of our society which ramains loyal to the authorities, supporting them some way or another, is being offered an agenda of well-being, behind which the authorities are developing the thesis of desparateness and total, i.e. – national and state, capitulation,” he said, describing the government policies as a trap threatening the Armenian statehood with a “total destruction”.

“That part of our public has no understanding at all that behind the ostensible well-being is the the dilemma of our future survival and existance – with only a certain time interval,” he said.

Bekaryan compared the kind of policy actions with the “effect” of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s “elevator negotiations” with the Azerbaijani president on the sidelines of the CIS summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan back in October 2018. In his words, Azerbaijan took crucial advantage over Armenia on the military, political and information domains at the time after the Armenian authorities brought into the public discourse the thesis that Pashinyan had “managed” to reach an arrangement promising to spare young Armenian soldiers’ lives.

“The opposition, feeling objectively nervous, is entering into the radical domain of approaches because they understand the possible aftermaths. But the impression we get as a result is that there are no edges of reconciliation – and no future at all – with the enemy. What the said segment of the society grasps from the message is what the authorities themselves practically desire,” he noted.

“I think the opposition needs to change its appraoches a little bit to invest more resources and patience, giving explanations to the public with specific examples - intead of accepting the authorities’ agenda to form part of that discourse which is practically a trap,” he added.

According to Bekaryan, the authorities’ steps give rise, by an large, to a very simple question. “Are we dealing with authorities or an occupation regime which has only one expectation from the public: the white flag of an eventual capitulation?” he asked.