Abraham Gasparyan: Having a constitution that will be acceptable for the region means becoming another Bashar al-Assad

Azerbaijan will not sign a peace agreement with Armenia not because its peace aspirations are, to put it mildly, questionable, nor because it has no appetite for Lake Sevan, Syunik, or Tavush, but because there is no stable and long-term guarantor of peace at the helm of Armenia—a strong leader, political scientist and founding director of Genesis Armenia Think Tank, Abraham Gasparyan, said during the latest episode of the program “Change the Channel with Abraham Gasparyan”.

According to Gasparyan, thus Pashinyan must amend Armenia’s Constitution so that there is no reference to the Declaration of Independence, meaning no mention of the December 1, 1989 decision regarding the reunification of Soviet Artsakh with Mother Armenia. The next point pertains to the withdrawal of demands regarding the Armenian Genocide and its legal implications.

“The Constitution is not just text, a piece of writing, or sentences, but a set of principles and goals within a political process. Having a constitution that will be acceptable for the region means becoming another Bashar al-Assad,” the political scientist said, also referring to the massacre of Alawites in Syria and the agreement signed by the Syrian president and the leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces.

Gasparyan noted that the U.S. is closing the Kurdish national chapter in Syria, signaling that Kurds are a key minority in Syria and will enjoy rights defined by constitutional and civil law norms, not a special status.

“What does all this have to do with the Alawite massacres in Latakia and Tartus, or why didn’t the West condemn the events in Latakia? Because that would give Russian, Iranian, and Iraqi Shiite groups, as well as Hezbollah, the opportunity to reassert themselves in Syria and disrupt U.S. plans. Washington’s strategy is quite remarkable and interesting. It killed two birds with one stone: by destroying Latakia and its population, it weakened Russia’s and Iran’s positions in Syria while simultaneously compelling Julani to hold accountable those responsible for the events in Latakia and Tartus, including their closest ones, to punish them by their own hands,” Gasparyan said.

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