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NALBANDYAN, IRAN, SARKOZY...
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments21839.html
Published: 18:07:06 - 18/05/2011
What is the diplomatic activity of Armenia in the past several weeks
related to?
Today the Foreign Ministry of Armenia announced that in the second half
of 2011 the president of France Nicola Sarkozy will visit Armenia. It
will be the second visit of French presidents to Armenia.
In 2006, during Robert Kocharyan~Rs office, Jacques Chirac visited
Yerevan. Then analysts wrote that Chirac~Rs visit was a guarantee
for Kocharyan.
What is the purpose of Sarkozy~Rs visit to Armenia half a year
before the presidential elections in France? Are essential changes
expected in the region or are they already in place? After all,
there has been no word on the visit of Armenia which is criticized
by the French president for illegitimate government. So what has
changed? Is this related to internal political processes in Armenia,
or regional transformations are coming up? Perhaps both.
It is interesting that the foreign minister of Armenia intends to fly
from Paris to Washington to meet with Secretary Hillary Clinton. Not
a second-class event either.
The nervous reaction of Iran to the fact that peacekeeping forces
may possibly be deployed in Karabakh is also evidence to upcoming
changes in the region. Iran has recently stated that it will not allow
the presence of foreign forces in the region. Nobody uttered a word
about the possibility of deployment but the statement came from Iran,
which means that Iran had received worrying signals.
In this context, it is not ruled out that Edward Nalbandyan~Rs travels
to France and the U.S. is related to this.
The reason might be home political processes in Armenia but in a larger
regional context. Europe and the U.S. have clearly extended their
presence in the South Caucasus, namely in Armenia and Azerbaijan. This
also refers to intensification of negotiations on the Eastern
neighborhood, and frequent visits to Yerevan and Baku, the heads of
the European organizations (last month the OSCE Chairman-in-Office,
the head of the OSCE PA and the President of the European Parliament
visited the region) and Azerbaijan even won on Eurovision 2011. There
is a feeling that Europe and the U.S. intend to finally wrest the South
Caucasus from the post-Soviet area and make a ~Sgood neighbor~T out
of it. And for this reason we must first settle the Karabakh issue,
even if it is necessary to carry out a revolution in Azerbaijan and
a velvet revolution in Armenia and to initiate a small war to deploy
peacekeepers.
Apparently, Russia understands this too, and decided to hold the
conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the
prospects for regional peace and security in Yerevan. The CSTO
Secretary General Nicolay Bordyuzha, as well as one of the odious
Russian politicians, the representative of Russia to NATO Dmitri
Rogozin, the Deputy Secretary of Russia~Rs Security Council Yuri
Zubakov will participate in the conference.
And again the Russians and Americans will fight for Armenia,
as formerly Russians and Persians, Russians and Turks, Persians
and Arabs, Arabs and Mongols did but never the Armenians. It is not
accidental that the destiny of the Armenians has always been handled
by agreements in the titles of which the word Armenia never figured.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments21839.html
Published: 18:07:06 - 18/05/2011
What is the diplomatic activity of Armenia in the past several weeks
related to?
Today the Foreign Ministry of Armenia announced that in the second half
of 2011 the president of France Nicola Sarkozy will visit Armenia. It
will be the second visit of French presidents to Armenia.
In 2006, during Robert Kocharyan~Rs office, Jacques Chirac visited
Yerevan. Then analysts wrote that Chirac~Rs visit was a guarantee
for Kocharyan.
What is the purpose of Sarkozy~Rs visit to Armenia half a year
before the presidential elections in France? Are essential changes
expected in the region or are they already in place? After all,
there has been no word on the visit of Armenia which is criticized
by the French president for illegitimate government. So what has
changed? Is this related to internal political processes in Armenia,
or regional transformations are coming up? Perhaps both.
It is interesting that the foreign minister of Armenia intends to fly
from Paris to Washington to meet with Secretary Hillary Clinton. Not
a second-class event either.
The nervous reaction of Iran to the fact that peacekeeping forces
may possibly be deployed in Karabakh is also evidence to upcoming
changes in the region. Iran has recently stated that it will not allow
the presence of foreign forces in the region. Nobody uttered a word
about the possibility of deployment but the statement came from Iran,
which means that Iran had received worrying signals.
In this context, it is not ruled out that Edward Nalbandyan~Rs travels
to France and the U.S. is related to this.
The reason might be home political processes in Armenia but in a larger
regional context. Europe and the U.S. have clearly extended their
presence in the South Caucasus, namely in Armenia and Azerbaijan. This
also refers to intensification of negotiations on the Eastern
neighborhood, and frequent visits to Yerevan and Baku, the heads of
the European organizations (last month the OSCE Chairman-in-Office,
the head of the OSCE PA and the President of the European Parliament
visited the region) and Azerbaijan even won on Eurovision 2011. There
is a feeling that Europe and the U.S. intend to finally wrest the South
Caucasus from the post-Soviet area and make a ~Sgood neighbor~T out
of it. And for this reason we must first settle the Karabakh issue,
even if it is necessary to carry out a revolution in Azerbaijan and
a velvet revolution in Armenia and to initiate a small war to deploy
peacekeepers.
Apparently, Russia understands this too, and decided to hold the
conference of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on the
prospects for regional peace and security in Yerevan. The CSTO
Secretary General Nicolay Bordyuzha, as well as one of the odious
Russian politicians, the representative of Russia to NATO Dmitri
Rogozin, the Deputy Secretary of Russia~Rs Security Council Yuri
Zubakov will participate in the conference.
And again the Russians and Americans will fight for Armenia,
as formerly Russians and Persians, Russians and Turks, Persians
and Arabs, Arabs and Mongols did but never the Armenians. It is not
accidental that the destiny of the Armenians has always been handled
by agreements in the titles of which the word Armenia never figured.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress