Nagorno-Karabakh: Nikol Pachinian faces up to a challenge perceived as existential in Armenia
Prime Minister Nikol Pachinian in Yerevan on October 16, 2018. KAREN MINASYAN / AFP
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He is a proclaimed pacifist who finds himself today leading a country at war.
The Armenian Prime Minister is grappling with a challenge perceived as existential here: to protect the integrity of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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With our special envoys in Yerevan,
Anissa El Jabri
and
Bertrand Haeckler
Warlord almost in spite of himself, that's in any case how his fellow travelers talk about it.
Nikol Pachinian who said "
there is no military solution in Nagorno-Karabakh
" has become the Prime Minister who goes in military fatigues to the capital of this self-proclaimed independent enclave.
Nikol Pachinian under surveillance of the previous generation, the one who fought in the war of independence of this territory, the one he chased from power.
"
For me it is not the majority of people but it is true that there is a group of opponents to its policy who are waiting for the false step, people who are only waiting for one thing to be able to do so. make responsible for the slightest error, the slightest defeat on the ground,
”analyzes Hrant der Abrahamyan, historian and analyst.
Today in Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh it is the sacred union, even if also, sometimes one wonders if the Prime Minister should not these last two years have been more conciliatory with Moscow.
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