Negotiations Result in Baku Getting Everything, Armenia Getting Nothing: Samvel Karapetyan

Samvel Karapetyan, the owner of the Tashir group of companies, published the 9th installment of a series titled "What the Current Authorities Have Achieved".

"To lose or not to utilize all the strong negotiation positions that we still had after the 44-day war. If these positions were negotiated rightly and sincerely, it would have been possible to preserve Artsakh, have no prisoners in Baku's jails, and maintain Armenia's significant leverage in the region, as well as dictate terms while signing a peace treaty.

After nullifying all negotiation positions and conceding Artsakh, entering negotiations with Azerbaijan results in Baku getting everything, while Armenia gets nothing. Agreeing on demarcation and delimitation while giving up land without receiving anything in return. Refusing international mediators from France, the USA, and Russia and claiming that we would negotiate independently with Baku to supposedly "not serve others' interests", only to end up making Turkey, Azerbaijan's elder brother, the actual sole mediator.

To betray national values and concede everything to the adversary, hoping that in return they will receive an uncertain promise of peace, a worthless piece of paper. Moreover, to deceive the people before the elections, merely to claim, 'Look, I have brought peace.'

Everyone in Armenia wants peace, but real, dignified, and stable peace, not just a formal piece of paper accompanied by constant threats and humiliations. Proposing some "crossroad" that supposedly brings economic benefits to Armenia but transforming it into Ankara's dreamed "Zangezur Corridor", with Armenia set on the path to vilayetization. Speaking extensively about brotherhood with Europe, bringing European observers to "ensure the security of Syunik", embracing Macron once a month, but practically "betraying" all of them and violating promises, while now trying to give the "corridor" to the Americans.

I have successfully conducted business in various countries around the world—France, Greece, Russia, Cyprus, and the United Arab Emirates. And I assure you that with such behavior and the reputation of a fraudster, the leader of a small group will soon not only completely discredit himself but also our Homeland in the eyes of the world.

We will remove Armenia from the geopolitical victim situation! We will restore the balance of interests and stakes in the region! At that time, transit routes will remain in Armenia's sovereign territory, filling Armenia's budget with hundreds of millions of dollars annually, rather than that of any other country, even a friendly one. We will do it our way," says the letter.