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**Wow, Pashinyan, unsurprisingly, is extremely adept at spin, as you will read in the last linked to article[ He came to prominence as the editor of Armenian Times- Prior to that he had his own paper which was shut down due to his libelous reporting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikol_Pashinyan)**

 **I have zero doubt that this journalist spook, never really a journalist, was backed by western money- Like USAID and NED, in fact, I have reports to this effect at my old site. His velvet revolution was funded by western backed NGO’s as well**

**Also see this**

[**Pashinyan, NED President Discuss “Fostering Democracy”**](https://hetq.am/en/article/146207)

> **Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan and National Endowment for Democracy President Damon Wilson met today in Yerevan and discussed potential` cooperation between the U.S. Congress funded organization and the Armenian government.`**

> **Pashinyan, according to a statement released by his office, said `strengthening democracy in Armenia` is one of the priorities of his administration and thanked the United States for its support in the field.**

[**Pashinyan Courts Trump in Washington**](https://oc-media.org/pashinyan-courts-trump-in-washington)

> Armenian Prime Minister **Nikol Pashinyan is concluding a week-long visit to the US, marking his first trip there since President Donald Trump assumed office.**
> 
> Pashinyan departed for the US on Monday.
> 
> **On Thursday, he met with Vice President JD Vance, with whom he discussed Armenian–US relations and updates on the South Caucasus.**
> 
> Previously, on Tuesday, **Pashinyan delivered a speech at the Atlantic Council, a US think-tank, discussing the peace process with Azerbaijan and the role the US could play in the process.** He additionally said that the peace process required ‘persistent work, to be creative, to be active, not giving up, and continuously work on creating what you need’.
> 
> Pashinyan still claimed, however, that peace was ‘within reach’, and that ‘***perhaps additional, or real, efforts’ by the Trump administration would have an effect on the talks.***
> 
> Nerses Kopalyan, an associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, told OC Media that Pashinyan assumed that **direct pressure from the White House can ‘secure peace in the region \[…\] in the same way direct pressure led to the solution of the hostage crisis in the Middle East and direct pressure is their approach on Ukraine’.**
> 
> **Kopalyan said that he believed Pashinyan thinks that Trump’s foreign policy agenda ‘seeks to proceed with a peace mandate’**, and that ‘including the South Caucasus as part of this framework is the additional effort’.

**Trump does not intend to seek a peace mandate. And Pashinyan knows this for a fact**