The delegation also visited the enclave and are said to be optimistic after their meetings with the Karabagh leadership. But, even if the OSCE may be satisfied in its relationship with the current administration in Nagorno Karabagh, the recently ousted Karabagh Defense Minister is not. The continuing dispute between the President of the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh and its former Defense Minister has become tense in recent days. Following the attack on the Prime Minister, Babayan has been dismissed from his position as commander of the Nagorno Karabagh Armed Forces in a presidential decree signed on Friday. Simply put, the administration of President Arkhady Ghukasyan believed that the forces represented by Babayan were attempting to create an atmosphere of political instability in order to protect their own economic interests.
Survival is now simply through corruption, theft and, as many allege, the violation of human rights.
While Babayan may have had a past that many Armenians would consider glorious, he is now neither liked nor respected in either Armenia or Karabagh. Some even suggested that those orders might come from the former Defense Minister and Prime Minister of Armenia, Vazgen Sarkisyan. However, such an eventuality is unlikely, although not impossible. The reasons given by Hunanyan for his actions on 27 October were enough. As in Karabagh, the self-interest of a tiny minority has adversely affected the entire population at a time when the economy is in enough trouble.