Situation Today Very Much Like in 1992: Armenian Political Analyst

During a press conference today, Analytical Center on Globalisation and Regional Cooperation (ACGRC) Board Chair, political analyst Stepan Grigoryan spoke on security systems and Armenia, highlighting a few dangers which threaten Armenia today.

Grigoryan noticed that is waging an obvious information war against Armenia and at the same time, warning that that information war “flows” not only through Azerbaijan’s channels.

The second risk is connected with the calls heard lately to take sharp and tough measures toward this or that powerful state; for example, there are calls to resign from the Collective Security Treaty. That, according to the analyst, can endanger Armenia’s security and can put the country before serious issues. 

“When, in 1992, we signed the CSTO Treaty, we didn’t have another choice, to tie our security with Russia. Neither NATO nor other organizations were working in the region. The situation today, after the Russo-Georgian war, is very similar to the situation in 1992, when, it seems, there was no alternative and in this case to sharpen relations with powerful states, including Russia, which I consider meaningless. It’s something else if they proposed an alternative to us,” he said.  

The third risk, according to Grigoryan, is that Russia and the US are in sharp disagreement regarding various issues tied with Georgia, but in Armenia’s case, it seems, there’s mutual agreement in a few issues. Even in the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, US-Russia mutual agreement is evident,” said the analyst.