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    ARMENIA - TURKEY AND ARMENIA - AZERBAIJAN
    Vardan Grigoryan

    Hayots Ashkhar Daily
    12 Sep 2008
    Armenia

    The disputes on Armenian-Turkish and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations
    held in Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan are gradually declining from
    their political, legal bases and turning into fruitless attempts of
    employing joint standards.

    The copious pieces of advise and proposals made by the political
    scientists and political figures of different countries are added
    to it. But the latter are unfortunately based on the "establishment"
    of foreign experience.

    Whereas the analyses of the situation created at the moment in
    Armenian-Turkish relations and Armenian - Azerbaijani confrontation
    clearly display that here we deal with issues on diametrically
    different planes, the artificial unification of which will lead to
    a deadlock rather than settlement.

    The issue of the settlement of Armenian - Turkish entangled string is
    not only the task of the improvement of Armenian - Turkish inter-state
    relations; it is also the matter of the tough and multi-planned
    relations of the countries and international structures that have
    already condemned Turkey for the crime of the Genocide of Armenians.

    Even in case of great desire Armenia and Turkey can't shoulder the
    responsibility of dismantling this entangled string. Because the
    primary attempts of improving Armenian - Turkish relations can be in
    the sc ope of inter-state dialogues, in conformity with the standards
    of the 21-century.

    The circle of the issues that by now separates the two peoples is far
    not manifested by the existing conflict, it is more due to the crime
    and the obstinacy to accept the crime committed 90 years back. In
    such circumstances the proposal regarding "mutual concessions" is, in
    reality, the outcome of the political expectations of the third side.

    Armenian people that have faced Genocide have already lost all the
    grounds that could have served as bases for a possible compromise with
    Turkey. As a result the only thing left to do for Turkey is to take
    the role of a "defender of Azerbaijan's rights" or not to respond to
    the accusations of the Genocide in its address. This tactics is very
    far from being considered as "mutual concession".

    In our view the improvement of Armenian - Turkish relations tends to
    the launch of the future programs.

    The issue of overcoming the obstacles that hinders the settlement of
    Armenian- Azerbaijani relations is quite a different problem, because
    here we deal with an unsettled territorial issue. At the moment Armenia
    and Azerbaijan have certain problems, which they have inherited quite
    recently, and they can solve these problems based on mutual concession.

    Here we deal with a clear format of mediating countries - OSCE Minsk
    group, which has elaborated concrete20proposal of mutual concessions
    and is waiting for the answer of the two parties.

    Consequently the combination of Armenian - Turkish and Armenian -
    Azerbaijani relations will make unavoidable the maintenance and the
    "conservation" of the tough entangled string of the world, territorial,
    inter-state and inter - ethnic relations, which during the recent
    years didn't allow finding perceptible solutions.

    To condition the improvement of Armenian-Turkish relations with finding
    mutual concessions with Azerbaijan means to breach the only possible
    "zero-based principle" of Armenian - Turkish dialogue. And vice verse -
    to condition the finalization of Armenian - Azerbaijani negotiation
    process with Armenian - Turkish relations means to intensify the
    territorial conflict already existing in South Caucasus.

    In our view the negotiations based on the search of mutual concessions
    in Karabakh conflict should still be held in the framework of OSCE
    Minsk Group as for the task of holding negotiations on establishing
    Armenian-Turkish relations from the starting point, at least
    temporarily must be demarcated from the entangled string of all the
    historical, legal and political problems that have been accumulated in
    Armenian-Turkish relations from the beginning of the previous century.
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