After Trump becomes president, attention to the South Caucasus will decrease – Benyamin Poghosyan

I don`t rule out that if the interest of the United States in the regulation of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations decreases. Expert of “ARPI ARMENIA” analytical center Benyamin Poghosyan said this in a conversation with Alpha News.

Poghosyan commented on the rumors that attention to the South Caucasus will decrease after Trump becomes president.

“There is a perception that if Trump becomes president, the South Caucasus will lose its importance for the United States to some extent. This does not mean that the South Caucasus is a very important region for the USA. But in any case, some reduction of additional importance may occur.

It is not excluded that the United States will no longer undertake the efforts that it is undertaking now for Azerbaijan and Armenia to sign some document, which, perhaps, the United States hopes will become the basis for the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations. We may not see such intense involvement from the United States.

Now we see that there are calls at the level of the secretary of state, the secretary of state hosts the foreign ministers of the two states. In other words, this activity may decrease,” the expert noted.

According to Poghosyan, Trump acts only from the point of view of deals and is more inclined to the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.

“Since Trump is prone to deals and sees geopolitics or politics more through a business prism, that is, from the point of view of concluding deals, he will try to advance the Armenian-Turkish reconciliation process, considering it a deal. So I do not rule out that if the interest of the United States in the normalization of Armenia-Azerbaijan relations decreases, Trump will try to achieve the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations by offering to sign some kind of deal,” Benyamin Poghosyan concluded.