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Toast to Karabakh with Borders of 1994
YEGHISHEH METSARENTS
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments21880.html
Published: 13:26:53 - 21/05/2011
The U.S. President Barack Obama stated that the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict must be solved to create a demilitarized Palestinian state
with the IsraelI border before 1967.
It is hard to tell when the Obama administration will reach this goal
or if it will ever reach it or not. After all, Obama will stay in
office for 5 to 6 years at best, given he is elected for the second
term. The conflict lasting for decades may not be easy to solve in 5
or 6 years.
However, significant is the signal which Obama sends to the world, to
the sides of similar conflicts. In this sense, it is interesting to
know what borders the internationally recognized Karabakh will have,
the borders before 1994 or after 1994.
A lot depends on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Karabakh, of course. For
instance, when the government of Armenia and the main political
opposition speak in favor of changing, narrowing the borders after
1994, the international community will hardly resist to the desire of
the Armenian political establishment, and one day a U.S. president may
announce that a demilitarized Karabakh state must be established with
the Azerbaijani border of 1988.
We tend to think that the statements of great powers on us depend on
their caprice, or their worldview, desires, perceptions, or at least
their interests which underlie all the rest.
Based on this thinking, there is an approach that whatever we do or
say, the world powers will do what they want. And it seems that the
small states benefit from this arrangement.
In reality, the small states benefit when their feeling of being
`doomed' is not already incorporated in their genetic code, when they
believe that the interests of the great powers are shaped in the
result of the behavior of the small states, otherwise in the world
there would be ten to twenty states instead of the present 200 and
more.
YEGHISHEH METSARENTS
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments21880.html
Published: 13:26:53 - 21/05/2011
The U.S. President Barack Obama stated that the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict must be solved to create a demilitarized Palestinian state
with the IsraelI border before 1967.
It is hard to tell when the Obama administration will reach this goal
or if it will ever reach it or not. After all, Obama will stay in
office for 5 to 6 years at best, given he is elected for the second
term. The conflict lasting for decades may not be easy to solve in 5
or 6 years.
However, significant is the signal which Obama sends to the world, to
the sides of similar conflicts. In this sense, it is interesting to
know what borders the internationally recognized Karabakh will have,
the borders before 1994 or after 1994.
A lot depends on Armenia, Azerbaijan and Karabakh, of course. For
instance, when the government of Armenia and the main political
opposition speak in favor of changing, narrowing the borders after
1994, the international community will hardly resist to the desire of
the Armenian political establishment, and one day a U.S. president may
announce that a demilitarized Karabakh state must be established with
the Azerbaijani border of 1988.
We tend to think that the statements of great powers on us depend on
their caprice, or their worldview, desires, perceptions, or at least
their interests which underlie all the rest.
Based on this thinking, there is an approach that whatever we do or
say, the world powers will do what they want. And it seems that the
small states benefit from this arrangement.
In reality, the small states benefit when their feeling of being
`doomed' is not already incorporated in their genetic code, when they
believe that the interests of the great powers are shaped in the
result of the behavior of the small states, otherwise in the world
there would be ten to twenty states instead of the present 200 and
more.