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    IMPLEMENTATION OF DOUBLE STANDARDS IS A PREROGATIVE OF POWER-HOLDERS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    18.09.2008 GMT+04:00

    The term "precedent" strongly entered into the everyday life of
    diplomats and politicians shortly after the recognition of Kosovo's
    independence.

    Reproaching the West with the implementation of double standards,
    at times we refuse them to Russia, the so-called strategic ally
    of Armenia. In fact, any power-holder adheres to this principle
    regarding small and weak countries. The latest statement of RF Foreign
    Minister Sergey Lavrov can testify for it. "The recognition by Russia
    of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia does not set a
    precedent for other post-Soviet breakaway regions - Transnistria and
    Nagorno-Karabakh," RF FM noted.

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The term "precedent" strongly entered into
    the everyday life of diplomats and politicians shortly after the
    recognition of Kosovo's independence and, to all appearances, it
    will still be used both to the point and beside it. In this case, the
    contrast between Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria, South Ossetia and
    Abkhazia, and earlier also Kosovo is far-fetched. The reason is quite
    banal - Russia can introduce its forces neither into Nagorno-Karabakh
    nor into Transnistria for various reasons. A great role is played
    here by the unwillingness of the people of NKR and PMR to be under
    foreign protectorate, be it in the first case Armenia and in the
    second - Moldova. However, Russia obviously enjoyed intervention
    in world politics and came to a decision that she can dictate her
    will. By the way she is not alone in this respect - the USA gives
    an equal treatment too. The only point where the world powers share
    similar views is their "refusal of precedent", which has existed at
    all times, including the 21st century. One could say that the first
    precedent after the World War II was the violation of Yalta decisions
    on the immovability of the borders, which in 1991 in no way fitted
    into the model of 1945. Delineated zonal influences and freaks of the
    post-war Europe borders had nothing in common with the actual state
    of affairs. They only fixed the victory over Germany. The same can be
    said about the inner borders of the USSR; being fixed imperiously,
    they caused many conflicts in the post-Soviet territory. And if so,
    the statements of the RF Foreign Minister and the US Secretary of
    State are nothing but a sly move and hypocrisy.

    "Russia will actively promote a peaceful solution to all the
    conflicts in the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States], respecting
    International Law, UN Charter principles and existing agreements,
    in search of harmony between conflicting states. We will pursue our
    mediatory mission in peace talks, including over Transnistria and
    Nagorno Karabakh. However, the South Ossetian crisis does not set a
    precedent for them," declared Lavrov at the Council of Federation,
    the upper chamber of the Russian parliament on Thursday.

    Most likely Lavrov's statements were dictated by the latest visit
    of the Azerbaijani President to Moscow. And though Russia will
    hardly make a curtsey to Baku, additional support should never be
    refused, especially when Azerbaijan turns its problems into trumps
    for trade. According to Russian analysts Baku gives Americans a cold
    reception to make them understand that the price for Baku's benevolence
    has sharply risen. It carefully follows the warming process between
    Armenia and Turkey, and welcomes the attempt of Turkey to fill up
    the futility that the OSCE Minsk Group has been trying to embody in
    the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict regulation. Besides, Baku knows very
    well that its standpoint of assessing the situation is extremely
    interesting to Moscow.

    "Azerbaijan is one of the major factors of instability in the region,
    and no one relies on more than the neutrality of Baku. At the same
    time everyone, and first of Baku, knows that it can conduct a long-term
    and successful trade through neutrality," gzt.ru reports.

    Meanwhile, according to William J. Burns, US Undersecretary for
    Political Affairs, the United States is committed to redoubling efforts
    to ease tensions and resolve conflicts throughout the region. "The
    U.S. Government will do all it can to encourage the parties to show
    greater flexibility and creativity in their negotiations. We will do
    everything possible to promote a just and lasting settlement of the
    Nagorno Karabakh conflict," noted the US Undersecretary, the Senate
    Committee on Foreign Relations informs.

    The only positive side in current proceedings is the fact that
    Nagorno-Karabakh people, as we have repeatedly mentioned, are in no
    need of "fair" regulation.
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