The statements of the former minister of foreign affairs of Armenia Vardan Oskanyan regarding the current unfavorable situation of the regulation of the NKR conflict have created a real panic within the government. Oskanyan has said that Armenia has appeared in the same phase as in 1998 and one of the ways of overcoming the crisis is the change of the government. Especially the last thought has originated the anger of the RPA members, who have without lingering responded to the statements of Oskanyan. “He had been our teammate for 10 years. Oskanyan, Robert Kocharyan and others are our teammates. We are continuing the policy of Robert Kocharyan, Oskanyan and why not even Serzh Sargsyan’s policy but we are being criticized because they are not in the government any more. Why shall we resign if we have turned our country into a serious factor in the world?” stated the RPA deputy-chair Razmik Zohrabyan. Oskanyan has been making such criticizing statements for over a year now but we have never responded to those. The governmental wing has been ignoring those. It is obvious that this “sentiment” of the RPA members is stipulated by the possible return of Kocharyan into politics. This means that the government is feeling fear in this regard. Perhaps it is no accident that the government feels certain hazard in that. It is no accident that among the ones, who responded to the statements of Oskanyan was also Edward Sharmazanov, RPA spokesperson. This means that in this affair are in charge those RPA members, who are responding to the statements of the Armenian National Congress and the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan in an online mode. By the way, in an “interesting coincidence” Oskanyan’s remarks were heard only after the famous announcement of the chair of the Prosperous Armenia Party Gagik Tsarukyan addressed to the minister of economy Nerses Yeritsyan. So we may say that the RPA-Kocharyan conflict is entering a new phase.
