With external coercion, we strengthen the enemy with our own hands." In a conversation with Arman Abubian, author of the Zeman Abubian podcast, diplomat, diplomat and the ambassador's husband, Dzionik Agajanian, commented that the proposals to replace the gas supplied from Russia with Azerbaijani gas are not economically beneficial for Armenia and contain serious political risks.
"We are being offered to get gas from Azerbaijan instead of Russia. What kind of gas will we get from Azerbaijan, the same Russian gas, we pay a little more to Azerbaijan? In other words, we are strengthening Azerbaijan, filling Azerbaijan's budget, losing the possibility of direct supplies from Russia, and if only we were paying Georgia for the Russia-Georgia crossing, now we will add Georgia to the Russia-Georgia crossing," the diplomat noted.
Dzionik Agajnian points out that with such a move, Armenia gives leverage to Azerbaijan to apply demands against it, and the declared "energy diversification" is actually false.
"A more expensive proposal for us in terms of price, in addition, we give leverage to a country hostile to us to use tools and demands from us. We are strengthening our enemy in our hands, also politically, because he is already starting to gain a certain important weight politically, and also economically."
Agajnian believes that the Armenian authorities are trying to present to the public that this process is economically beneficial under external pressure.
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