PM Pashinyan's office: Dashnaks against direct talks between Armenia, Azerbaijan

Taron Chakhoyan, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armenian Prime Minister's Office has said that the Dashnaktsutyun party (The Armenian Revolutionary Federation) is against direct talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

"It is not surprising that the Dashnaktsutyun party [The Armenian Revolutionary Federation] sees danger in the bilateral format of regulating relations with Azerbaijan," Chakhoyan wrote on Facebook page, Caliber.Az reports.

"According to the Dashnaks, Armenia should conduct an indirect dialogue with Azerbaijan and Turkey in order for the mediator to primarily promote its interests, leaving Armenia in limbo.

To expect anything different from this group, which serves foreign interests, would be at least naive. By the same logic, they negotiated with Azerbaijan for 30 years, and Serzh Sargsyan proudly declared that on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, they were negotiating with the international community, not Azerbaijan, which led to a stalemate in the negotiation process in 2018 and was a precursor to the subsequent conflict.

Imagine you want to make a transaction to buy real estate or other property. Would you deal directly with the owner or through an intermediary pursuing his or her own interests? It is also worth considering that the intermediary proposed by the Dashnaks has a propensity to violate Armenia's statehood," Chakhoyan writes.