These phone calls show that the situation is critical: Abraham Gasparyan on Pashinyan’s calls to foreign partners

Five phone calls in one day with foreign partners — five of
them on the rather tense situation on the contact line between Armenia and
Azerbaijan. Pashinyan made calls from the U.S. to Iran. He talked to Georgian
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken,
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz and French
President Emmanuel Macron. The press service of the RA Government reported
this. All the reports read, “Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed readiness
to have urgent discussions with the Azerbaijani president to reduce tension.”

According to Director of Genesis Armenia Think Tank and
Foundation, Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor Abraham
Gasparyan, these phone calls show that the situation can be called critical.

“Some sources report that a Security Council emergency
session was convened yesterday. The session dragged on. These phone calls and
the emergency session show one thing: The proposals of the collective West and
those of Russia on the opening of the Berdzor corridor and the alternative Akna
road were discussed. In fact, they did not arrive at any decision, and
Pashinyan most probably asked to be given some time,” Abraham Gasparyan said.

According to him, everything will be brought out into the
open before long, and we will get acquainted with both the Russian and Western
proposals regarding the opening of the corridor. Pashinyan, in turn, may agree
to the opening, claiming it to be an attempt to avert the war.