Poll: 73% of respondents do not believe in achieving long-term peace  with Azerbaijan through  negotiation process

ArmInfo.  73% of respondents do not believe in achieving long- term peace with Azerbaijan through the negotiation process, as evidenced by the results of the survey "Political Issues: Current Situation and Prospects" conducted by the ARAR Research Foundation.  

According to the Foundation, this  indicator has varied between 66-67% on average in different periods,  and by July of this year it had increased to 73%. Only 26% of  respondents believe in long-term peace.  However, these results were  obtained before the Washington agreements, so it is possible that  this percentage may change in the future.

To  the question "do you agree that international peacekeepers should  control the Syunik road  in exchange for peace?", 34% of respondents  answered "yes", while the overwhelming majority (65%) categorically  disagreed.  Only 25% of respondents believe in achieving peace after  the signing of a peace treaty, 74% hold the opposite opinion. Among  those who do not believe in peace after signing the treaty, the  majority (80%) are citizens aged 18 to 34.

The questionnaire also included a question regarding Artsakh - "is  its loss temporary?" As noted by the Director of the Foundation,  Armen Khachikyan, if in the fall of 2023, after the ethnic cleansing  in Artsakh, 70% of respondents considered the loss of Artsakh  temporary, in the summer of this year, 91% of respondents shared a  similar opinion. Only 7.3% of respondents consider the loss of  Artsakh irreversible.  The survey was conducted from July 17 to  August 5 among 1015 citizens living in Yerevan, as well as in urban  and rural areas of Armenia. The survey was conducted via phone calls,  with a sampling error  +/- 3%.

ARAR is a civil society research foundation that was founded in 2014.  Its mission is to develop and implement fundamental solutions to the  key challenges facing Armenia. The foundation regularly conducts  sociological surveys, the results of which contribute to  understanding public opinion and serve as a basis for recommendations  and reforms.