Pashinyan courts Trump in Washington

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

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”

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

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