Who is not satisfied with the dialogue between Baku and Yerevan?

The pop conman Bagrat Galstanyan, nicknamed "Srbazan," felt his talent as a writer while in prison and hastened to pour his inspiration onto digital media. Or maybe even on paper - history is silent. According to the Armenian media, Galstanyan wrote a work about "peace, war and martyrdom." The point of this opus is that war is bad, but the peace that has been established since the end of the Karabakh conflict is even worse. Peppering his conclusions with quotations from certain Armenian "writings" (thanks to which the consciousness of the Armenian people is so clouded), Galstanyan proves that Armenians do not need such a world, and the memory of the past should be more important to them than the future.

Let us remind you that this is the same Galstanian who once headed the diocese of the Armenian Orthodox Church in Canada and founded (!) a church in Quebec in order to pay off his debts. He also squandered the finances of the Laval church and drove it into millions of dollars in debt. Having fled to Armenia, he was mobilized by Etchmiadzin to fight the current government, and actively set fire to protests during the return of Gazakh villages to Azerbaijan and the delimitation. Now this fraudster is behind bars and writes about "war and peace", explaining to the Armenians how they can lose their statehood.

However, Srbazan did not say anything new. Armenians have been living by such principles for centuries. And these rules were written for them by the same dubious elements as the fraudster Galstanyan. If everything stays the way it was, then in another hundred years, some kind of crazy person will start quoting the current one, explaining to the Armenians that only hatred and a far-fetched past will help them reach a fantastic light at the end of a dark tunnel.

The opposition is always against it. Even when it comes to the life and death of their country. It cannot be that the opposition politicians of Armenia do not understand what they are trying to push the country towards with their protests against the peaceful agenda being implemented by Baku and Yerevan. They can't help but realize that striking a pose and setting conditions in a dialogue with Azerbaijan is not what Armenia needs right now. And it's not just unnecessary, but dangerous. The peace agenda is a great gift for their country, and an undeserved one at that. In fact, she deserves a completely different treatment, but she is very lucky to have a neighbor like Azerbaijan, who does not believe that revenge is better than peace to the end.

The Armenian opposition cannot fail to understand that the future of their country depends on Azerbaijan. The official contacts between Yerevan and Baku should please, not infuriate, anyone who really cares about what happens to Armenia. Even opposition propaganda should primarily imply the interests of the country, and only then the party or some kind of power-hungry demagogue.

But the Armenian opposition has obvious problems with its perception of reality. She continues to live in a kind of Armenian "Narnia" and sees everything through this prism. Any contacts between Yerevan and the Azerbaijani side, especially official ones, cause heartburn attacks in its representatives.

Dashnak Ishkhan Saghatelyan, a member of Kocharyan's Armenia bloc, accused Nikol Pashinyan of carrying out Baku's tasks. According to Dashnak, the fact that the first foreign official to visit Armenia after the elections was an Azerbaijani is proof of this. In particular, Saghatelyan believes that Pashinyan has been "instructed" to deal with the revanchist opposition. Apparently, such thoughts help revanchists to rise at least in their own eyes. They like to fantasize that Baku thinks day and night about how to deal with political losers who will not be trusted even by the Armenian people themselves.

Tigran Abrahamyan, a deputy from the Sargsyan Republican Party, who has been sitting in parliament for the last few days, is also in a state of disarray due to the intensification of official contacts between Baku and Yerevan. The revanchist opposition is still depressed by the transit of goods for Armenia through Azerbaijan and the refueling of Armenian cars with Azerbaijani gasoline. Every news item on this topic leads to stress. The revanchists are so complex about Azerbaijani fuel, as if it wasn't their country that occupied foreign territories for thirty years, as if it wasn't the Armenians who committed ethnic cleansing and genocide, slaughtered, burned and destroyed, but on the contrary. Tigran Abrahamyan apparently has memory lapses, otherwise he would not have been outraged that officials of a country that "occupied" certain territories of Armenia freely come to Armenia and hold meetings there. Sargsyan's colleague, like Dashnak Saghatelyan, is still mentally in the times before 2020 and wants to convince Armenians that nothing has changed today. They say that Yerevan can still ban peace initiatives, set conditions, be capricious and stall for time. And he would have done all this if it hadn't been for Pashinyan, who "sold out" to Baku... 

In reality, the Azerbaijanis could ask questions about official contacts. But not the Armenians. Armenian politicians, no matter which camp they represent, should freeze for fear of stirring up positive trends. If they really care about Armenia, they should be happy that Azerbaijani officials are conducting a dialogue with Yerevan and discussing logistics projects, trade, and other economic issues, rather than reparations or the seizure of Armenian territories due to hundreds of billions of dollars in damage caused by the occupation. And this is just a few years after the conflict ended. This is an unprecedented situation created by Baku's pragmatic and peace-loving policy, and the Armenian side should make every effort to ensure that its neighbor does not change his mind.

So far, official Yerevan is acting correctly. And this is not happening at the dictation of the Azerbaijani side, as Saghatelyan, Abrahamyan and others convince the Armenians. Official Yerevan acts with its own mind, which has finally opened up to understanding simple truths. The first is to live in the present and the future, not the past. Secondly, despite the influence and wealth of the world's Armenians, Armenia will not be able to get what does not belong to it, but instead risks losing what it has. Third, you need to be friends with your neighbors, because only good neighborliness determines the stability and success of your own country. Fourth, international law is dying, but even ardent Turkophobes will not be able to step over it for the sake of Armenians. And fifth, remaining a pawn in someone else's game in the current situation means losing the long-awaited statehood.

It is in vain that the opposition throws stones at official Yerevan because he has woken up and realized the true state of things. Because Armenia could very well have ended its existence without regaining consciousness.