In Armenia, the war party is striving for power

Baku/27.10.20/Turan: Ex-Prime Minister of Armenia Vazgen Manukyan called on Nikol Pashinyan's government to transfer power to the military. In his address, Manukyan assesses the situation in the country as one of the shameful and destructive pages of Armenian history, when not only Karabakh, but also Armenia and the future of the Armenians are under threat.

Manukyan demands from Pashinyan to transfer voluntarily all power to the military. The army, having taken all power into its own hands, should form a single Defense Committee together with the leadership of the Karabakh separatists, and begin negotiations with interested states and international structures. Act in accordance with the military situation. “This is the only way of salvation. Otherwise, we can lose everything," the statement says.

Today in Armenia, the head of the counterintelligence department of the National Security Service of Armenia, Major General Hovhannes Karumyan, was dismissed. Yerevan commentators attribute his dismissal to a high-profile criminal case of high treason. “We have disclosed cases of treason, espionage, dissemination of false information among the military,” said earlier Deputy Head of the National Security Service of Armenia Armen Abazyan.

It is obvious that in Armenia, which was catastrophically losing the war with Azerbaijan, as expected, a struggle for power began between the civilian government of N. Pashinyan and high-ranking officers. On the side of the military are Pashinyan's political opponents in the person of V. Manukyan.

This is the second attempt to remove peacefully Pashinyan from power. The first was on October 17 (on the 20th day of the war), when first 13 parties, and then 16, issued a joint statement in which they proposed to form an operational headquarters with the participation of all former and current presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers of Armenia and separatists in Karabakh. The parties proposed to endow the headquarters with the status of a state body with the right to make decisions.

Pashinyan then did not react to the attack of 16 parties and opposed the active actions of ex-presidents Robert Kocharian and Serzh Sargsyan, who were going to "save Karabakh". Pashinyan did not authorize Kocharian to travel to Moscow to meet with Putin. After that, Sargsyan and Kocharian no longer figured in the Karabakh events.

The named extra-parliamentary forces demanded that Pashinyan make public the true state of affairs, that is, tell the people everything that he told in secrecy at a meeting in the government. Otherwise, the leaders of 16 parties threatened to tell the public what they learned from the prime minister himself.

Apparently, Pashinyan does not want to share powers and responsibility for the outcome of hostilities and the negotiation process,” media reported from Yerevan.-0-