"With such friends and enemies it is not necessary": Pashinyan in the USA and Paris is deaf to Moscow's signals

Russia advocates that the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides — and Armenia and Azerbaijan, the countries with which we have allied relations, have worked out a peace treaty that would open the way and mean a sustainable long—term settlement of relations, rather than laying a "mine" for future generations, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said in an interview with Izvestia.

"Naturally, we are always ready to contribute to moving forward and we are against signing any early documents, as the West insists, which really wants to push Armenia and Azerbaijan to conclude a peace treaty on some Western platform as soon as possible. Such hasty, ill-considered and not fully verified decisions may not lead to a long—term sustainable peace, but, on the contrary, lay some seeds of confrontation for the future, which, of course, we consider extremely undesirable neither for Armenia with Azerbaijan, nor for the South Caucasus, nor for Russia," the diplomat says.

Unfortunately, the work of the trilateral group headed by the Deputy Chairmen of the Governments of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia on unblocking transport communications and resuming economic ties has now been interrupted and frozen, so to speak.

Of course, Moscow calls on the parties and, above all, Armenian friends to return to work within the framework of this group. The Russian side is always ready to provide all possible assistance to the parties, if they so wish:

"First of all, we consider the line of the West in the South Caucasus to be absolutely destructive, because it is aimed not at stabilizing the situation in this strategically important region for Russia, but at trying to "contribute" from this flank to inflicting a strategic defeat on us. Sometimes there is even talk of attempts to persuade some countries to open a second front against Russia — in Transcaucasia.

As for the consolidation of ties between Armenia, on the one hand, the European Union, on the other, and the West as a whole, we proceed from the following. Official Yerevan, the Armenian state, the Armenian society and the Armenian people make sovereign decisions on how to build their foreign policy and how to position their country in the international community.

This is their prerogative, and we, as you well know, never interfere in the internal affairs of other states and never impose any recipes and our vision on other states, but try to work out some mutually acceptable modalities and compromise approaches to resolving certain issues through dialogue."

Regarding Armenia's rapprochement with the European Union, "Moscow both publicly and in dialogue with Armenian friends" clearly indicated that simultaneous membership in the Eurasian Economic Union and in the It is impossible in the European Union, because there are two incompatible regulatory systems with different approaches to customs standards, technical, sanitary and phytosanitary standards, product labeling and certification, and even intellectual property issues. These are completely different systems, and it is simply impossible to stay in them at the same time.

On the beginning of negotiations between Armenia and The European Union on projects in favor of rapprochement, and in particular visa-free regime: Such negotiations have begun. We see that the European Union is true to itself here, too, because, without making any promises or making any serious decisions in terms of visa-free relations, it already demands political loyalty from Armenia and joining anti-Russian sanctions.

And all this is happening against the background of the fact that Armenia's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union brings it tangible and significant long-term benefits in the form of increased trade with the EAEU and in the form of increased investments from the EAEU space to Armenia.

If we take the latest figures of Armenian statistics, the volume of trade turnover between Armenia and its partners in the EAEU is about $ 13 billion and last year it increased by 53%, and the volume of trade with the European Union in the same last year barely exceeded $ 2 billion and at the same time decreased by 24%.

That is, even according to these figures of Armenian statistics, it is clear where the origins of the current economic well-being of Armenia and its people are located, and a sharp paradigm shift and transition to the EU platform will inevitably be associated with a drop in GDP, and with serious blows to the Armenian business, economy and standard of living of ordinary citizens of Armenia.

Armenian politicians sometimes say that there is a mood in the Armenian society in favor of joining the EU. Probably, there are such sentiments, but the sentiments of those Armenian citizens who think about the future of their country in the Eurasian family and within the framework of Eurasian integration equally deserve attention.

Well, while a high-status Russian diplomat talks about the moods of "Armenian friends" and their throwing, Prime Minister Pashinyan has been in the States for a week, trying unsuccessfully to get into the White House, and then flies to France in order to master artificial intelligence in order to change the history of his country, its anthem and The Constitution. What, in fact, the author of the Telegram channel "Comrade General" tells about:

"ARMENIA ON A SIDE CHAIR

Nikol Pashinyan's failure in In Washington, his humiliating unsuccessful week—long wait for a meeting with President Trump is a completely bleak fact, because there is nothing personal about it. Well, that is, most likely, to the provincial trader from the Armenian market, each of the American bonzes has some feelings compatible with a sense of humor. But in this case, the US leadership did not dynamite Pashinyan — it dynamited Armenia.

This is especially sad also because in the same days Trump was actively "stirring up" cases in which Armenia — theoretically — could have made a difference. And first of all, we are talking about the situation in the Middle East, which boils down to the confrontation between Israel and Iran.

While Pashinyan was talking about nothing with congressmen and senators and sitting on a side chair at a prayer breakfast, Trump's so-called "presidential memorandum" on Iran was distributed.

The meaning of American goal—setting is extremely cruel and cruel: the United States must take control of Iran's space technology and nuclear energy - and no atomic bombs there; it must achieve the demilitarization of the country and the complete destruction of ballistic and cruise missiles.

At the same time, other burning stories were played out, to which, for example, Turkish leader Erdogan reacted sharply (he criticized Trump's idea of relocating residents of the Gaza Strip to other countries and supported negotiations on Ukraine). Erdogan's opinion is interesting. And no one asked Pashinyan's opinion.

This is what was raging in world politics while Nikol Pashinyan was waiting for a call to Trump — and did not wait for a simple reason: Armenia is not interesting to the US president, because it has long been in a completely subordinate, vassal position. It is a lot of honor to officially receive a being who performs at obscure events with some obscure actors, lawyers and missionaries. If Trump accepts Pashinyan, then how to accept real, non-fake politicians after that? The Oval Office has already been devalued under Biden.

Nikol Pashinyan is now reaping the fruits of his trade in Armenia's sovereignty in the international arena. He is quoted only at events specially designed "for him" by Rasmussen's consulting company.

And in other cases, he sits modestly on a side chair and waits for the call.

If they call."