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RUSSIA WANTS TO LEGALIZE ITS INTERVENTION
Naira Hayrumyan
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics23179.html
12:58:15 - 01/09/2011
In his address to the heads of Armenian diplomatic missions at their
session with the Central Staff of the MFA Serzh Sargsyan did not dwell
on Armenia's relations with NATO and CSTO. Moreover, he did not go
into the details of the proposal of Alexandr Lukashenko agreed with
Medvedev about the allocation of right to CSTO forces to interfere
with attempts of revolution in CSTO members countries.
Moscow handles CSTO and its Rapid Reaction Forces, so it apparently
wants to legitimize its intervention in the internal affairs of
post-soviet countries. Until now, Russia has predominantly used
economic and gas leverages, as well as the hierarchy of criminals
where the "kingpin" reserves the final word, to keep these countries
under control.
"Illegal" intervention of Russia in Armenia's home affairs is
nothing new. Moreover, whenever it was impossible to control the
developments through "evolution", Russia just roughly interfered in
Armenia's policy. It happened at the public level - just remember the
"voluntary" signing of extension of the term of the Russian military
base stay in August of the past year. The agreement was signed without
any hearing at the Armenian parliament, in sepulchral silence.
As to public debates, there is already an opinion in Armenia that
Russia had a hand in the tragic events of October 27, 1999 and March 1,
2008. The customers of the execution in Armenia's parliament in 1999
have never been named, and then the U.S. Charge d'Affaires Joseph
Pennington, according to a cable revealed on WikiLeaks, said the
world will never learn the truth about March 1.
The fact that on March 1 forces which are out of the control of the
local authorities acted in Armenia was also hinted by Robert Kocharyan
in his latest interview. He said people were mostly killed in a place
that was "not controlled by us". It is unknown whether he had in mind
the special services of foreign countries, particularly Russia.
It is noteworthy that the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia has
requested the international community to carry out a joint examination
of videos picturing the face of the man in a Police uniform shooting
at protesters. Armenian experts say they are unable to identify the
man in the video. Perhaps the reason is that he is not an officer of
the Armenian police.
Now Russia needs a legal permit for intervention. Perhaps, it is
related to the anti-Russian sentiment in all the CSTO countries,
particularly in Armenia. After the signing of the extension of term
of deployment of the Russia bases in Armenia, open appeals to pass to
equal terms in Armenia's relationship with Russia have been voiced in
Armenia. The initiative to open Russian language-schools failed too,
the program "Russian cooperation" which transferred Armenian families
to Russia as "labor force" was suddenly closed down too.
Against this background, it is clear that any discussion about
delegating the authority of "royal gendarmes" to the CSTO forces
will cause a wave of protests in Armenia, let alone Serzh Sargsyan's
agreement to this proposal.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Naira Hayrumyan
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics23179.html
12:58:15 - 01/09/2011
In his address to the heads of Armenian diplomatic missions at their
session with the Central Staff of the MFA Serzh Sargsyan did not dwell
on Armenia's relations with NATO and CSTO. Moreover, he did not go
into the details of the proposal of Alexandr Lukashenko agreed with
Medvedev about the allocation of right to CSTO forces to interfere
with attempts of revolution in CSTO members countries.
Moscow handles CSTO and its Rapid Reaction Forces, so it apparently
wants to legitimize its intervention in the internal affairs of
post-soviet countries. Until now, Russia has predominantly used
economic and gas leverages, as well as the hierarchy of criminals
where the "kingpin" reserves the final word, to keep these countries
under control.
"Illegal" intervention of Russia in Armenia's home affairs is
nothing new. Moreover, whenever it was impossible to control the
developments through "evolution", Russia just roughly interfered in
Armenia's policy. It happened at the public level - just remember the
"voluntary" signing of extension of the term of the Russian military
base stay in August of the past year. The agreement was signed without
any hearing at the Armenian parliament, in sepulchral silence.
As to public debates, there is already an opinion in Armenia that
Russia had a hand in the tragic events of October 27, 1999 and March 1,
2008. The customers of the execution in Armenia's parliament in 1999
have never been named, and then the U.S. Charge d'Affaires Joseph
Pennington, according to a cable revealed on WikiLeaks, said the
world will never learn the truth about March 1.
The fact that on March 1 forces which are out of the control of the
local authorities acted in Armenia was also hinted by Robert Kocharyan
in his latest interview. He said people were mostly killed in a place
that was "not controlled by us". It is unknown whether he had in mind
the special services of foreign countries, particularly Russia.
It is noteworthy that the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia has
requested the international community to carry out a joint examination
of videos picturing the face of the man in a Police uniform shooting
at protesters. Armenian experts say they are unable to identify the
man in the video. Perhaps the reason is that he is not an officer of
the Armenian police.
Now Russia needs a legal permit for intervention. Perhaps, it is
related to the anti-Russian sentiment in all the CSTO countries,
particularly in Armenia. After the signing of the extension of term
of deployment of the Russia bases in Armenia, open appeals to pass to
equal terms in Armenia's relationship with Russia have been voiced in
Armenia. The initiative to open Russian language-schools failed too,
the program "Russian cooperation" which transferred Armenian families
to Russia as "labor force" was suddenly closed down too.
Against this background, it is clear that any discussion about
delegating the authority of "royal gendarmes" to the CSTO forces
will cause a wave of protests in Armenia, let alone Serzh Sargsyan's
agreement to this proposal.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress