Pashinyan's war against intermediaries

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group were in conflict after 2014, and they are at war after 22. What great news am I saying? Nikol Pashinyan said in his final speech at the National Assembly.

"What was the OSCE Minsk Group, if not a legitimate geopolitical competition over Armenia?" In other words, did you think that the interests of the co-chairs of France, the USA and the Russian Federation coincided in such a way that they would come, they would do the same, they would do the same? I'm sorry, but for 30 years we have been thrown from one side to this side, to that side like a mesh for 30 years," Pashinyan stated, insisting that the OSCE Minsk Group was saying something different to Armenia and doing something different.

No leader of Armenia has had such a provincial approach towards international actors, mediators, and finally, the three permanent members of the UN Security Council, the nuclear powers. All this is about not understanding the nature of international relations. This is how they lose allies. this is the exact opposite of what is called a rational foreign policy, which aims to gain new allies.

But don't think that Pashinyan is randomly "swinging hard" against the mediators. He is just again justifying his loser policy, which stems from Baku's agenda. Pashinyan is just trying to "justify" why he is negotiating with Baku without mediators, using the logic of unilateral concessions. He "justifies" why he rejected the Russian settlement plan and did not accept the Western one.