Pashinyan’s speech at the UN General Assembly or a bad dancer who is always getting in the way
On September 26, at the 74th UN General Assembly, Armenian Maidan Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan gave an incendiary half-hour speech for the second time.
He made his first speech from the high rostrum of the UN exactly a year ago, telling “urbi et orbi” about the difficult legacy he inherited from his anti-democratic predecessors, about a bad parliament that “does not reflect the needs and aspirations of the Armenian people,” about the “bloodless revolution” in Yerevan, where, according to Pashinyan, the maydauns he led were filled to their very ears with non-violence, that “they were ready to expose themselves to bullets and tank tracks with a smile.”
In the end, Pashinyan modestly compared himself to Nelson Mandela, admitting that he whiled away his days and nights reading the book of the seasoned man during his two-year sentence for the March 2008 pogroms.
In parentheses, we note that Mandela spent 27 long years in extremely uncomfortable prisons in South Africa for the armed struggle against the apartheid regime and stubbornly refused to make a deal with the authorities in order to receive a pardon for written consent to stop the armed struggle, while Pashinyan...
In general, what can I say: the scale of personalities, principles, goals and objectives is incommensurable...
The main part of the half-hour speech of the Armenian prime minister was devoted to the problem of the Karabakh conflict. Or rather, the way Pashinyan sees it from his bell tower.
Then he babbled at length about the “democratic reforms” of Armenia, again releasing a lot of venom against the “parrades” and the internal political problems they created.
This is approximately how Pashinyan imagines Armenia before the “velvet” revolution
Pashinyan did not compare himself with Mandela this time, but structured his speech in such a way that it was as if the new prime minister was tearing his veins and not sleeping at night - building democracy and prosperity in Armenia, using the prospects that opened a year ago, and the hydra of external and internal spoiled all his raspberries "sandpaper" counter-revolution.
In his speech, Pashinyan made two key political statements: firstly, he branded Turkey “as a threat to the security of Armenia and the Armenian people,” and secondly, he called Russia the main strategic partner.
As for the part of Pashinyan’s speech that concerned the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, it would be better for the prime minister to chew than to speak, since with such statements it is good to multiply enemies, but does not discuss sensitive issues in a constructive and calm manner.
Pashinyan in Karabakh
Pashinyan called on Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to create conditions for progress in the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
The Azerbaijani authorities, according to Pashinyan, do not want to compromise on Karabakh. “By their actions and statements, they prove that they do not seek to resolve the conflict, but to seek revenge for unsuccessful acts of aggression against the Karabakh people in 1990 and 2016.”
Pashinyan accuses the Azerbaijani authorities of intransigence and the desire to remain in their previous positions, despite the fact that he himself is not ready to compromise.
Here is the donut in the speech of the Armenian prime minister:
“They want to return Nagorno-Karabakh to the status it had during Soviet times. But these efforts are in vain, since the people of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region during the USSR era realized their right to self-determination and declared their independence by leaving the USSR. The Azerbaijani people did the same. And such a position of Baku is equal to the idea of recreating the Soviet Union.”
This would be a good time to remind Pashinyan that of all the Soviet autonomous republics, only Crimea was a subject of the USSR, while the others remained subjects of the corresponding union republics without any reservations. In addition, the bloody chaos in the NKAO began even before the collapse of the USSR and things in the autonomy went from bad to worse after the declaration of secession from the Union.
In general, in December 1991, everyone was in such a hurry to leave the sinking ship of the USSR that they were ready to go into the stormy unknown, even on a sofa or on a suitcase.
Then it turned out that having burned down the house, everyone found themselves naked, homeless and offended, and there was no one to stand up for the small and weak, since in the heads of the republican elites who had unexpectedly acquired “independence”, dense proprietary instincts suddenly awoke, which did not provide for freedom of self-determination for autonomies.
Pashinyan’s parallels with the “recreation of the USSR” are completely off the mark and illiterate, since the matter is not only about the demands of the Azerbaijani side, but in general the restoration of justice in relation to all refugees and victims as a result of the protracted conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Okrug. And as long as the warring parties pull the blanket over themselves, the problem will not move forward.
The Armenian Prime Minister said the following about neighbors - strategic partners, threats and challenges:
“Russia is our main strategic partner and ally, Georgia and Iran are our strategic neighbors. We have formed a strategic agenda and partnerships with the United States, the European Union and member countries of this organization. And it is a great challenge for us to find ourselves in the tangle of disagreements of our partners, since we are constantly at risk of being misperceived by some or even all of them.”
Of course, Pashinyan is no longer “a cake” that was on the barricades when he called for an immediate severance of relations with the EAEU and the CSTO, but the guy still didn’t understand the main thing: in order to be correctly understood, there is no need to play multi-vector and try to sit on the all the chairs, especially since the area of the furry ass is stupidly not enough for this.
You should be friends (or maintain good relations) with everyone, especially with your neighbors, but there can only be one strategic ally, especially if the economy, defense and security of your country directly depend on this ally.
It is not surprising that Pashinyan did not understand this truism, since his further discussions about the problems of EU-Armenia relations after the “revolution of love” were full of confusion and disappointment. Why, they say, didn’t a breakthrough happen, because we jumped around and shouted chants so conscientiously?
According to the prime minister, the tension that exists today between neighbors and strategic partners puts Armenia in a very uncomfortable position: “This reality is fraught with the fact that some of our friends - and maybe all of them - may misunderstand us.”
In this context, the head of the Armenian government commented on relations with neighboring Turkey. In his opinion, Turkey today “remains a serious threat to the security of Armenia and the Armenian people.”
He's a strange guy, this Pashinyan. And his advisors too. It turns out that there will be no Happiness for Armenia as long as there are serious disagreements between Russia and the West. They say that this is where the misunderstanding among friends about the multi-vector policy of Armenia grows. And then there is Türkiye.
What a shame. Figure out your priorities and clearly define who is your friend, who is your enemy, and who is just out for a walk - and build your domestic and foreign policy based on this clear scheme, and not wallow in the Maidan Manilovism.
In his speech, Pashinyan also touched upon “democratic reforms” within the country, the advancement of which, in his opinion, is being hampered by the former political elite.
This part was extremely predictable: they have money, they have connections, they stole everything, they put a spoke in the wheels of us, so smart and beautiful.
It is obvious that Pashinyan did not hear the bearded bureaucratic joke about the treasured envelopes in the safe of the next would-be leader, where the advice “Blame everything on the predecessor” is hidden in the safe.
Or didn't understand. Or he understands, but wants to frame his vendetta against Kocharyan with talk about the sabotage of “paperedniks” in order to free his hands.
In general, Pashinyan and his henchmen are beautiful, smart, and dexterous, but the country’s young government is constantly worried about false rumors and disinformation spread by media controlled by their predecessors.
And Pashinyan touched upon this topic from the UN rostrum, having previously stated that his government does not interfere in the work of the media and does not try to control their activities:
“However, some of them obey representatives of the previous government, invent false rumors and sow distrust in society about what is happening and about the goals of the “velvet” revolution. Despite this challenge, our resolve to promote and protect freedom of media organizations remains unwavering.”
To sum up Vovaevich’s chaotic speech: since May 2018, everything has been going wrong in Armenia. Democracy is being established by leaps and bounds. The government and parliament are doing everything to make the people feel good. However, Azerbaijan, Turkey and conflicts among Armenia’s friends, as well as representatives of the old government, are doing everything to spoil this wonderful initiative.
By and large, this speech is the babble of a bad dancer who is always getting in the way. The political immaturity of the maydaun prime minister is striking. A trip to the United States and a speech at the UN General Assembly became another narcissism of Vovaevich with the pouring of Armenia’s internal political agenda from empty to empty.
With the exception of a meeting with UN Secretary General Gutteres, which was of a formal nature, Pashinyan did nothing useful for his country either politically or economically. He did not meet with any influential politicians or businessmen.
Instead, as last year, he was uncontrollably carried away with chatter about the greatest benefit for Armenia of the “velvet” revolution, led by his beloved. It seems that he no longer has topics with which to speak from the UN rostrum.
Constantly emphasizing the role of his outstanding and even exceptional personality in modern Armenia, Pashinyan creates a negative opinion among a neutral listener, as if before him in the place of the republic there were only wild mountains with troglodytes, and only the life-giving “Maidan” brought the fruits of civilization and democracy to the suffering savages.
But Pashinyan’s main failure was the actual refusal of a peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Despite the fact that it was the Maidan Prime Minister who previously positioned himself as the first head of independent Armenia, who is concerned about the opinion of not only the Armenians who suffered during the local war, but also the Azerbaijanis.
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