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Agreement to be Implemented the Same Night
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics22466.html
Published: 15:28:51 - 01/07/2011
Foreign Minister of France Alain Juppé told `Echo Moscow' that new
proposals will be made to the parties to the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict.
After the meeting in Kazan, they started talking in Armenia that some
agreements however have been reached in Kazan, perhaps, even a
document had been signed but the mediators and the president preferred
not announcing it.
Such a version, despite its seemingly impossibility, is possible under
the current level of autocracy in Armenia and Azerbaijan. Levon
Ter-Petrosyan's silence indirectly confirms this idea. Nonetheless, it
is likely that the sides have agreed some very important point.
Does the Armenian party have right to know what they plan behind its
back? If by now, the society was likely to learn about dangerous
developments and tendencies from the opposition, then now, after the
authorities and the opposition started their dialogue, the Congress
prefers keeping silent. And the society loses the last source of
information and worrying signals.
The authorities monopolized the right to information not only on
Karabakh but the foreign policy sector. The authorities refer to
confidentiality. A citizen of Armenia does not know what was proposed
in Kazan, what Armenia agreed and disagreed with, what kind of new
proposals can arise. A citizen of Armenia does not know whether
Armenia is ready to recognize Palestine what its position on the
Russian-American dialogue is etc.
And if these questions have been at least raised by the opposition so
far, now the opposition is on the side of the power and prefers to
keep everything confidential. The fact that Ter-Petrosyan has no
information is somewhat unbelievable: in any case, confidentiality has
never before prevented him to voice questions and concerns. The
current silence means that either Ter-Petrosyan has no anxieties, or
pushes Serzh Sargsyan to some unwanted steps.
Some Western experts say in private conversations that Ter-Petrosyan
is trying to `not disturb' Serzh Sargsyan to sign a bad document on
the Karabakh issue, to accuse him after of treason and demand his
resignation. But after the signing, these demands will not cost
anything. Everyone understands that if one night passes between the
signing and the implementation of the agreement, the latter will not
be brought to life. If Azerbaijan says `yes' to the self-determination
of Karabakh and Armenia agrees to withdraw its troops, then that same
night peacekeepers will deploy at the new `border' and the next
morning it will turn out that five countries have already recognized
Karabakh within the borders of NKAR.
So playing with the signing of the treaty in the hope that it, if
something happens, can be cancelled isn't necessary.
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics22466.html
Published: 15:28:51 - 01/07/2011
Foreign Minister of France Alain Juppé told `Echo Moscow' that new
proposals will be made to the parties to the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict.
After the meeting in Kazan, they started talking in Armenia that some
agreements however have been reached in Kazan, perhaps, even a
document had been signed but the mediators and the president preferred
not announcing it.
Such a version, despite its seemingly impossibility, is possible under
the current level of autocracy in Armenia and Azerbaijan. Levon
Ter-Petrosyan's silence indirectly confirms this idea. Nonetheless, it
is likely that the sides have agreed some very important point.
Does the Armenian party have right to know what they plan behind its
back? If by now, the society was likely to learn about dangerous
developments and tendencies from the opposition, then now, after the
authorities and the opposition started their dialogue, the Congress
prefers keeping silent. And the society loses the last source of
information and worrying signals.
The authorities monopolized the right to information not only on
Karabakh but the foreign policy sector. The authorities refer to
confidentiality. A citizen of Armenia does not know what was proposed
in Kazan, what Armenia agreed and disagreed with, what kind of new
proposals can arise. A citizen of Armenia does not know whether
Armenia is ready to recognize Palestine what its position on the
Russian-American dialogue is etc.
And if these questions have been at least raised by the opposition so
far, now the opposition is on the side of the power and prefers to
keep everything confidential. The fact that Ter-Petrosyan has no
information is somewhat unbelievable: in any case, confidentiality has
never before prevented him to voice questions and concerns. The
current silence means that either Ter-Petrosyan has no anxieties, or
pushes Serzh Sargsyan to some unwanted steps.
Some Western experts say in private conversations that Ter-Petrosyan
is trying to `not disturb' Serzh Sargsyan to sign a bad document on
the Karabakh issue, to accuse him after of treason and demand his
resignation. But after the signing, these demands will not cost
anything. Everyone understands that if one night passes between the
signing and the implementation of the agreement, the latter will not
be brought to life. If Azerbaijan says `yes' to the self-determination
of Karabakh and Armenia agrees to withdraw its troops, then that same
night peacekeepers will deploy at the new `border' and the next
morning it will turn out that five countries have already recognized
Karabakh within the borders of NKAR.
So playing with the signing of the treaty in the hope that it, if
something happens, can be cancelled isn't necessary.