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WILL THE U.S. MAKE ARMENIA UNDERSTAND?
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments23334.html
12:23:56 - 14/09/2011
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved John Heffern's
nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Armenia. Heffern served as Deputy
head of the U.S. mission to NATO. Actually, this time the U.S. solved
the issue of its ambassador to Armenia rapidly, unlike the affirmation
of Marie Yovanovitch.
This time, the Armenian lobby in the United States did not oppose to
the nomination, which used to be the case, an intended information
show, let alone the profit of the Congressmen for their participation
in Armenian information shows.
Apparently, the Armenian lobby has understood or it has been made to
understand that the issue of the American ambassador to Armenia is
more serious than shows organized in this regard. Why is it important?
The U.S. Embassy will work in Armenia with or without the ambassador,
and as the Wikileaks revealed, there is no difference for the Armenian
political class who is there to cry on the shoulder, the ambassador
or the Charge d'Affaires.
But the appointment of the U.S. ambassador is not guided by the
problems of the political class of that country but by its own
priorities. Armenia is currently included in the U.S. foreign political
priorities, which implies high-level diplomatic activities.
It has not reached the level of intensive communication with the
Secretary or Deputy Secretary. But relations with Armenia on the
level of ambassador are very important for the U.S., considering the
processes happening in the Arab states and the Near East which renders
the South Caucasus a highly important direction. Fortunately, even
rapidly reformed Georgia has been unable to reduce our geopolitical
strategic potential of the Armenian factor in the region.
There are many circumstances here, starting from victory in the
Karabakh war and finishing with the creative potential in Armenia.
There are many objective reasons too, in particular the problems
between Armenia and Turkey, neighborhood with Iran and relations
with Russia.
All this makes the U.S. involve Armenia in its foreign political
priorities. Moreover, it is very important for the U.S. to maintain
balance in the South Caucasus under the active Russian-Turkish
expansion trends. This balance can be preserved only with the help
of reformed Armenia, because in case of lack of reforms, Armenia will
just be the one who yields, while the U.S. regularly makes considerable
effort to prevent concessions.
In this sense, the U.S. needs a self-sufficient Armenia able to
understand and fulfill its mission in the South Caucasus. This takes
changes in Armenia.
The upcoming elections in Armenia and the home political realities
create certain possibilities for the promotion of systemic changes
in Armenia, even despite the wish and will of home political subjects.
Perhaps, this is the reason why the U.S. preferred observing the
upcoming election at the level of the Ambassador and not the charge
d'affaires like in 2008.
Hakob Badalyan
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments23334.html
12:23:56 - 14/09/2011
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved John Heffern's
nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Armenia. Heffern served as Deputy
head of the U.S. mission to NATO. Actually, this time the U.S. solved
the issue of its ambassador to Armenia rapidly, unlike the affirmation
of Marie Yovanovitch.
This time, the Armenian lobby in the United States did not oppose to
the nomination, which used to be the case, an intended information
show, let alone the profit of the Congressmen for their participation
in Armenian information shows.
Apparently, the Armenian lobby has understood or it has been made to
understand that the issue of the American ambassador to Armenia is
more serious than shows organized in this regard. Why is it important?
The U.S. Embassy will work in Armenia with or without the ambassador,
and as the Wikileaks revealed, there is no difference for the Armenian
political class who is there to cry on the shoulder, the ambassador
or the Charge d'Affaires.
But the appointment of the U.S. ambassador is not guided by the
problems of the political class of that country but by its own
priorities. Armenia is currently included in the U.S. foreign political
priorities, which implies high-level diplomatic activities.
It has not reached the level of intensive communication with the
Secretary or Deputy Secretary. But relations with Armenia on the
level of ambassador are very important for the U.S., considering the
processes happening in the Arab states and the Near East which renders
the South Caucasus a highly important direction. Fortunately, even
rapidly reformed Georgia has been unable to reduce our geopolitical
strategic potential of the Armenian factor in the region.
There are many circumstances here, starting from victory in the
Karabakh war and finishing with the creative potential in Armenia.
There are many objective reasons too, in particular the problems
between Armenia and Turkey, neighborhood with Iran and relations
with Russia.
All this makes the U.S. involve Armenia in its foreign political
priorities. Moreover, it is very important for the U.S. to maintain
balance in the South Caucasus under the active Russian-Turkish
expansion trends. This balance can be preserved only with the help
of reformed Armenia, because in case of lack of reforms, Armenia will
just be the one who yields, while the U.S. regularly makes considerable
effort to prevent concessions.
In this sense, the U.S. needs a self-sufficient Armenia able to
understand and fulfill its mission in the South Caucasus. This takes
changes in Armenia.
The upcoming elections in Armenia and the home political realities
create certain possibilities for the promotion of systemic changes
in Armenia, even despite the wish and will of home political subjects.
Perhaps, this is the reason why the U.S. preferred observing the
upcoming election at the level of the Ambassador and not the charge
d'affaires like in 2008.