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ONCE IN ALMATY
HAYK ARAMYAN
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics-lrahos18573.html
15/07/2010
On July 17, in Almaty, the non-official gathering of OSCE Foreign
Ministers will take place. A meeting between the Armenian, Turkish
and Azerbaijani foreign ministers is also expected. Before, the
Turkish-Azerbaijani press started their regular attack: various
officials dwell on the surrender of various areas, peacekeeping
forces deployment etc. The Armenian party considers their statements
as attempts to present their wishes for reality and underline that
first the NKR status is to be discussed.
All this looks like the film "12 Chairs". Turkish and Azeri officials
recall Father Fyodor, who everywhere was persecuting the owner of
those chairs, begging and demanding to sell them to him. What happened
in the end is known to everyone. In the end, he did not find what he
was looking for inside the chairs and went crazy.
Returning to ours: the power, the political forces, except Heritage.
Ours, sorry for the comparison, but remind the carrier of the theatre,
who used to demand first the money then the chairs. First the status,
then the territories.
Looking at the long diplomatic process of the settlement, many
understood what is happening in reality. The point is not about the
Armenians and Azeris, because their participation is almost symbolic,
since they are considered conflicting parties. The point is about
geopolitical major processes, the logic of which differs from the
"aspirations" of the conflicting sides. Hence, both the issues on the
status and the territories are to be viewed in that logic. While that
logic is almost inaccessible for the "conflicting sides".
Returning to "our small" problems. Whom do the territories "hinder"?
Naturally, Azerbaijan and its elder brother Turkey, which is obliged to
assume that hard burden. In the latest period, it started hindering
Russia too, which tries not to lose its influence in Caucasus
establishing large-scale relations with Turkey. These territories
"hinder" also the political class of Armenia in the conscience of
which "mutual concession" is rooted up as a reflex and an expression
of cleverness, flexibility, good will, tolerance and other high ideas.
No one else in the world is interested in whom those territories
belong to. The point is not about public statements but the reality.
In the end, both the Armenian and Azeri people will face the fact like
Bender and Father Fyodor. But if the Azeri people are already facing
the fact, the Armenians have a chance to correct the situation. It
is only necessary not to dwell on concessions and not to commerce the
status, then the rest issues. It is necessary to leave the negotiations
and promote NKR as a negotiating party, which is the real conflicting
side. Both the status and the territories belong to it.
Let Turkey and Azerbaijan negotiate with whomever they want, if they
refuse negotiating with NKR. Armenia can participate in the process
just the way Turkey is doing, creating balance.
Perhaps there will be opinions that this is impossible. But there is
nothing impossible in the world, and if something seems impossible,
the reason is solely the powerlessness.
From: A. Papazian
HAYK ARAMYAN
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics-lrahos18573.html
15/07/2010
On July 17, in Almaty, the non-official gathering of OSCE Foreign
Ministers will take place. A meeting between the Armenian, Turkish
and Azerbaijani foreign ministers is also expected. Before, the
Turkish-Azerbaijani press started their regular attack: various
officials dwell on the surrender of various areas, peacekeeping
forces deployment etc. The Armenian party considers their statements
as attempts to present their wishes for reality and underline that
first the NKR status is to be discussed.
All this looks like the film "12 Chairs". Turkish and Azeri officials
recall Father Fyodor, who everywhere was persecuting the owner of
those chairs, begging and demanding to sell them to him. What happened
in the end is known to everyone. In the end, he did not find what he
was looking for inside the chairs and went crazy.
Returning to ours: the power, the political forces, except Heritage.
Ours, sorry for the comparison, but remind the carrier of the theatre,
who used to demand first the money then the chairs. First the status,
then the territories.
Looking at the long diplomatic process of the settlement, many
understood what is happening in reality. The point is not about the
Armenians and Azeris, because their participation is almost symbolic,
since they are considered conflicting parties. The point is about
geopolitical major processes, the logic of which differs from the
"aspirations" of the conflicting sides. Hence, both the issues on the
status and the territories are to be viewed in that logic. While that
logic is almost inaccessible for the "conflicting sides".
Returning to "our small" problems. Whom do the territories "hinder"?
Naturally, Azerbaijan and its elder brother Turkey, which is obliged to
assume that hard burden. In the latest period, it started hindering
Russia too, which tries not to lose its influence in Caucasus
establishing large-scale relations with Turkey. These territories
"hinder" also the political class of Armenia in the conscience of
which "mutual concession" is rooted up as a reflex and an expression
of cleverness, flexibility, good will, tolerance and other high ideas.
No one else in the world is interested in whom those territories
belong to. The point is not about public statements but the reality.
In the end, both the Armenian and Azeri people will face the fact like
Bender and Father Fyodor. But if the Azeri people are already facing
the fact, the Armenians have a chance to correct the situation. It
is only necessary not to dwell on concessions and not to commerce the
status, then the rest issues. It is necessary to leave the negotiations
and promote NKR as a negotiating party, which is the real conflicting
side. Both the status and the territories belong to it.
Let Turkey and Azerbaijan negotiate with whomever they want, if they
refuse negotiating with NKR. Armenia can participate in the process
just the way Turkey is doing, creating balance.
Perhaps there will be opinions that this is impossible. But there is
nothing impossible in the world, and if something seems impossible,
the reason is solely the powerlessness.
From: A. Papazian