The restless maydown continues to rage in Pashinyan
Since the government of Armenia, led by Pashinyan, recalled its representative, Colonel General Yuri Khachaturov, without prior agreement with other partners, the post of CSTO Secretary General continues to remain vacant.
At the moment, the duties of the Secretary General of the Defense Union of the countries of the former USSR are temporarily performed by the Russian representative Valery Semerikov.
Yuri Khachaturov was recalled by the new government of Armenia only because Pashinyan decided to settle personal scores with all officials involved in the dispersal of the illegal Ara-Maidan in Yerevan at the end of February - beginning of March 2008. The protests were organized by supporters of Ter-Petrosyan, who completely lost the presidential election. The future Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan took an active part in illegal rallies, was arrested and convicted, but did not fully serve his sentence and was soon released.
Yuri Khachaturov at that time was the commander of the Yerevan garrison, and the maydauns who came to power accuse him of the completely degenerate formulation of “overthrowing the constitutional order.”
Be that as it may, showdowns and fights among the Armenian elites are an internal matter of Armenia, which should not concern the CSTO. However, Pashinyan thinks differently and demands that a representative of Armenia again become the new secretary general of the organization on the grounds that its representative has the right to apply for this position until 2020.
The remaining CSTO members believe that Pashinyan, who did not agree on the recall of his representative with other participants, went against the rules, squandered the current chance for his country, and now it is Belarus’s turn to nominate its representative. Lukashenko has had his own candidate ready for a long time, but Pashinyan’s insane position is preventing him from taking the empty seat.
On Tuesday, March 19, an excited Nikol Vovaevich convened a press conference on the CSTO and threatened that a new secretary general would not be appointed without the consent of Armenia. “Otherwise, it means that this structure does not exist,” the Armenian prime minister said.
Pashinyan insists that after the early termination of Khachaturov’s powers, this post should remain with Armenia, and this position is fair. “Our partners do not agree, they say that this issue has not been regulated. We say: then, before appointing a new secretary general, let us clarify in the CSTO charter, if for some reason the term remains unfulfilled, then how should the issue be regulated? And it seems that we have come to an agreement on this point,” he added.
Yerevan proposes to amend the regulations in case of such situations. “By withdrawing our candidate, we simply proved that everyone is equal before the law. In this regard, our approach is constructive. There were apocalyptic assessments - wow, wow, what happened... But nothing happened,” Pashinyan reassured the public. “In the entire history of the CSTO, there have been no such conversations.”
It is noticeable that, accustomed to being the center of enthusiastic attention at home, Pashinyan feels like a kind of daring pioneer, bringing a fresh wind of renewal to a defensive alliance in which hardened conservatives and retrogrades have settled.
Realizing that the CSTO may not appreciate the “progressive” statements of the Maidan upstart, Pashinyan began to polish the possible consequences of his cavalry attack with the peace-loving phrases of Leopold the Cat, about how he likes the CSTO and the EAEU, but the unfortunate “society does not see in what way” discussions take place that are quite deep and sometimes even heated. All this increased my respect for these organizations.”
If you trace the development of events in the CSTO that unfolded after the recall of Khachaturov and the first attempt to come to an agreed decision on a new secretary general in Astana, it is noticeable that Pashinyan harbored a grudge against Lukashenko and in fact put forward an ultimatum: if other members of the organization do not allow Pashinyan’s little man to steer collective security until 2020 year, the Armenian prime minister will stir up trouble, inflame and destabilize the situation. That is, the Maidan baboon is still raging in Pashinyan, whose desires are the law for the rest. And when this guy will calm down and wiser up is unknown.
Perhaps Pashinyan would have been more accommodating if not for the spanking given to him by Lukashenko, first in Astana, and then at the December CIS summit in St. Petersburg.
Pashinyan then criticized the President of Belarus, as if he was the main arms baron for the Aliyev regime, and also thoughtlessly shares information with the enemies of Armenia. Let us recall that the Belarusian Old Man met in Astana with the President of Azerbaijan Aliyev, who attended the CSTO summit and announced his intentions to join the organization.
Old Man, instead of paternally kindly letting the hot Caucasian newcomer understand his mistake, at the summit in St. Petersburg he advised Pashinyan to “seek clarification from Vladimir Vladimirovich,” since “it is he, and not Belarus, who is the main supplier of weapons to Azerbaijan.”
Lukashenko, however, chose to “forget” that Russia simultaneously supplies weapons to Armenia, and even regularly brings both fist-bumpers to the negotiating table when it comes to a fight with weapons. Old Man does not consider Yerevan a profitable partner, preferring to push his Polonaises to Baku.
Pashinyan has not grown up to speak in such a daring tone with Putin, which he himself is well aware of, and therefore the Maidan prime minister channeled all his dissatisfaction into a demarche within the CSTO, blaming Belarus as the culprit for everything.
On March 20, TASS published a statement from the acting CSTO Secretary General Valery Semerikov that all procedures for approving the candidacy submitted by Belarus and the draft documents necessary for decision-making were agreed upon long ago and were sent to the CSTO members back in December 2018.
However, the timing of the approval and signing of CSTO decisions is not regulated, which is why it is impossible to say when the candidacy of Stanislav Zas will be approved.
This means that all of Pashinyan’s attempts to sow confusion in the CSTO will cost him further image losses, and the post of secretary general of the organization will continue to be occupied by a Russian representative until 2020. And only a year later, when the formal term of office of the recalled Khachaturov expires, his place will be taken by a Belarusian representative, but without any permission from the Maidan prime minister. Was it worth spitting on your beard and breaking spears for this?
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