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SARGSYAN PLEASES PUTIN
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
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Published: 13:24:41 - 07/10/2011
October 7 is Vladimir Putin's birthday. He becomes 59 years old. Serzh
Sargsyan congratulated Putin on this occasion. His congratulatory
message can be called fantastic because of its interesting content.
The fantastic thing is that usually a president congratulates a
president, a prime minister a premier according to the principle of
equal "subordination".
While in this case the president congratulates the premier. At personal
plane, there can be no issue: maybe Serzh Sargsyan just wanted to
congratulate Putin personally. But in this case, the address should
not be an official one, but it should be delivered through personal
cables, there would be nothing weird.
But the President of Armenia officially congratulates the Prime
Minister of Russia. This is not a tragedy, of course, but there is an
issue. The last conference of Yedinaya Rossia party evidenced that in
reality Putin is already and again the President of Russia but he is
still the de jure Prime Minister, while the states and their first
figures are a legal category. Consequently, maybe for subordination
dignity, it would be better not to congratulate him at the level of
the President.
Two circumstances are possible to push Sargsyan to this step. The
first is perhaps the one that Putin appeared in the psychological
trap of the causal and consequential connection of Putin-Kocharyan
possible return, or under the psychological pressure and so, now he
is trying to do everything not to arouse Putin's suspicion proving
he is attentive and committed.
"I can note with satisfaction that we have always been focused on
the issues relating to the Armenian-Russian strategic cooperation",
said Serzh Sargsyan in his letter, which means that "I have always
felt your glance and did everything under your sight".
The stress on personal relations is not less noteworthy: "I highly
appreciate the personal trustworthy and close relations between us,
which, no doubt, promote the further fulfillment of our bilateral
plans".
Serzh Sargsyan is trying thereby to emphasize that there is a warm
relationship with Putin, because in the Armenian political circles,
"personal relationships" are valued particularly highly. Sargsyan
is trying to dispel the deep-seated belief that Kocharyan has much
"more friendly" relationship with Putin than Sargsyan.
The second motive of the congratulatory message could be the visit to
Yerevan of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who made â~@~Kâ~@~Ka
statement in Armenia that can be perceived as "encroachment" on
Russia's interests in the energy sector of Armenia.
He said that his country would help Armenia develop alternative energy
sources. And alternative energy in Armenia may be only alternative
to the Russian presence, because all the power in Armenia is Russified.
If we add to this the fact that Sarkozy quite transparently urged
EU countries to show interest in the energy system of Armenia and
Armenia to take into account the initiatives of European pipeline
bypassing Russia, it becomes clear how unpleasant came out to be the
day of October 7 in Armenia for Russia.
It is possible that this is the reason why Serzh Sargsyan forgot
about the subordination and congratulated Putin's birthday in order
to disperse the unpleasant impression from Sarkozy's visit.
HAKOB BADALYAN
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments23675.html
Published: 13:24:41 - 07/10/2011
October 7 is Vladimir Putin's birthday. He becomes 59 years old. Serzh
Sargsyan congratulated Putin on this occasion. His congratulatory
message can be called fantastic because of its interesting content.
The fantastic thing is that usually a president congratulates a
president, a prime minister a premier according to the principle of
equal "subordination".
While in this case the president congratulates the premier. At personal
plane, there can be no issue: maybe Serzh Sargsyan just wanted to
congratulate Putin personally. But in this case, the address should
not be an official one, but it should be delivered through personal
cables, there would be nothing weird.
But the President of Armenia officially congratulates the Prime
Minister of Russia. This is not a tragedy, of course, but there is an
issue. The last conference of Yedinaya Rossia party evidenced that in
reality Putin is already and again the President of Russia but he is
still the de jure Prime Minister, while the states and their first
figures are a legal category. Consequently, maybe for subordination
dignity, it would be better not to congratulate him at the level of
the President.
Two circumstances are possible to push Sargsyan to this step. The
first is perhaps the one that Putin appeared in the psychological
trap of the causal and consequential connection of Putin-Kocharyan
possible return, or under the psychological pressure and so, now he
is trying to do everything not to arouse Putin's suspicion proving
he is attentive and committed.
"I can note with satisfaction that we have always been focused on
the issues relating to the Armenian-Russian strategic cooperation",
said Serzh Sargsyan in his letter, which means that "I have always
felt your glance and did everything under your sight".
The stress on personal relations is not less noteworthy: "I highly
appreciate the personal trustworthy and close relations between us,
which, no doubt, promote the further fulfillment of our bilateral
plans".
Serzh Sargsyan is trying thereby to emphasize that there is a warm
relationship with Putin, because in the Armenian political circles,
"personal relationships" are valued particularly highly. Sargsyan
is trying to dispel the deep-seated belief that Kocharyan has much
"more friendly" relationship with Putin than Sargsyan.
The second motive of the congratulatory message could be the visit to
Yerevan of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who made â~@~Kâ~@~Ka
statement in Armenia that can be perceived as "encroachment" on
Russia's interests in the energy sector of Armenia.
He said that his country would help Armenia develop alternative energy
sources. And alternative energy in Armenia may be only alternative
to the Russian presence, because all the power in Armenia is Russified.
If we add to this the fact that Sarkozy quite transparently urged
EU countries to show interest in the energy system of Armenia and
Armenia to take into account the initiatives of European pipeline
bypassing Russia, it becomes clear how unpleasant came out to be the
day of October 7 in Armenia for Russia.
It is possible that this is the reason why Serzh Sargsyan forgot
about the subordination and congratulated Putin's birthday in order
to disperse the unpleasant impression from Sarkozy's visit.