Ter-Petrosyan warns West may block Karapetyan victory

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia’s first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan said Western powers supporting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan would view businessman Samvel Karapetyan’s potential victory as a restoration of Russian influence in Armenia.

He argued they would try to prevent such a development.

Ter-Petrosyan described the issue of national unity as a painful reality and the number one challenge facing Armenians.

“Painful realities and reflections.

The issue of Armenian unity

The most painful problem of the Armenian people scattered around the world is division. Armenia’s independence and the brilliant victory in the first Karabakh war seemed to have solved that problem. However, the humiliating defeat has once again placed us before the reality of fragmentation. If we add to this Nikol Pashinyan’s reckless steps aimed at deepening divisions in our society, we again find ourselves in danger of sinking into the same swamp.

About the upcoming elections

Pashinyan’s Western patrons will regard Samvel Karapetyan’s victory as the restoration of Russian influence in Armenia, which does not fit their long-term plans at all. Therefore, they will try to do everything possible to prevent such a development, ignoring the fact that the exclusive right to choose their own government belongs to the people. It must be understood once and for all that Armenia’s natural allies are not distant Western countries (with the exception of France, with which humanitarian and cultural relations were established as early as the beginning of the 20th century), but Russia, Georgia and Iran. Relations with China and India are also encouraging and growing warmer. As Omar Khayyam once said: ‘The sound of the drum is sweet from afar.’

Nikol Pashinyan as founder of profanеlanguage

Profanity is nothing more than a display of insolence and an inferiority complex. The strong do not swear; the strong simply strike.

Neither during the years of Soviet Armenia nor in the period of independence has profanity existed in public speech as a phenomenon. This is a disgraceful innovation introduced by Pashinyan and his team that brings no honor to our traditionally minded nation.

Does the Church have rights?

According to the Constitution and laws, it certainly does. From a civilizational perspective, this is one of the greatest achievements crystallized during the formation of secular states in regulating relations between the state and the Church. In that case, how are judicial bodies, on the orders of a dictator, initiating criminal prosecutions against dozens of clergymen? Do they not realize that after a change of power they themselves will sit in the defendants’ chairs?

On the importance of criticism

When asked how I react to criticism directed at me, I calmly respond: if a politician does not receive blows, he is not a politician. There has never been a politician who has not been criticized. Criticism is one of the important and necessary stimuli that temper a political figure. Whoever fears criticism has nothing to do in politics. Politics is the art of awakening vigilance and clearing a path with convincing words and elbows. As I noted in one of my first interviews: ‘Whoever enters politics must be ready to hear both blessings and curses. Whoever undertakes to serve the nation has no right to expect rewards from it or to resent it.’ (Selected Works, Yerevan 2006, p. 77).

A few words about so-called self-criticism: I do not know anyone who criticizes himself. Even those suffering from masochism do not take such a step,” the post said.

Parliamentary elections in Armenia are scheduled for June 7, 2026.