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ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN WILL HAVE TO ACT TOGETHER: ANALYST
epress.am
09.14.2011 10:57
In the near future, Baku and Yerevan will have to work more
closely with Moscow, said Grigory Trofimchuk, vice-president of
the Moscow-based Center of Strategic Development Modelling (also
referred to as the Center for Modelling of Strategic Development),
in an interview with Novosti-Azerbaijan.
Trofimchuk pointed out that Syrian leader Bashar Assad did everything
so that he can undergo the same steps as with Gaddafi and when these
processes naturally get closer through Syria to the borders of the
Greater Caucasus, then all the countries of the region (primarily
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia) will have to choose who they're with -
Russia, Washington or Brussels.
At the same time, the Russian analyst noted that in its relations
with Europe and the West, Baku has to take into consideration the
fact that Azerbaijan is, by definition, a Muslim country and so the
West will more quickly take the side of Yerevan than Baku.
"The South Caucasus will soon break up: Georgia will go to the West,
while Armenia and Azerbaijan (forgetting about the Karabakh conflict)
will be forced to act in the same camp, if they don't want to disappear
from the world map altogether, as is the case after all the world
wars. They now must come together with Russia in a trilateral format -
but not to think about Karabakh again. The only chance for Russia,
Armenia and Azerbaijan to get out of the rigid frame of another
script is to develop the strategy of collective action in advance,
since no one has yet touched them seriously and individually.
"The South Caucasus countries need to realize, to understand that they
are not Europe, which they strive to; at best, they are West Asia,"
he concluded.
From: A. Papazian
epress.am
09.14.2011 10:57
In the near future, Baku and Yerevan will have to work more
closely with Moscow, said Grigory Trofimchuk, vice-president of
the Moscow-based Center of Strategic Development Modelling (also
referred to as the Center for Modelling of Strategic Development),
in an interview with Novosti-Azerbaijan.
Trofimchuk pointed out that Syrian leader Bashar Assad did everything
so that he can undergo the same steps as with Gaddafi and when these
processes naturally get closer through Syria to the borders of the
Greater Caucasus, then all the countries of the region (primarily
Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia) will have to choose who they're with -
Russia, Washington or Brussels.
At the same time, the Russian analyst noted that in its relations
with Europe and the West, Baku has to take into consideration the
fact that Azerbaijan is, by definition, a Muslim country and so the
West will more quickly take the side of Yerevan than Baku.
"The South Caucasus will soon break up: Georgia will go to the West,
while Armenia and Azerbaijan (forgetting about the Karabakh conflict)
will be forced to act in the same camp, if they don't want to disappear
from the world map altogether, as is the case after all the world
wars. They now must come together with Russia in a trilateral format -
but not to think about Karabakh again. The only chance for Russia,
Armenia and Azerbaijan to get out of the rigid frame of another
script is to develop the strategy of collective action in advance,
since no one has yet touched them seriously and individually.
"The South Caucasus countries need to realize, to understand that they
are not Europe, which they strive to; at best, they are West Asia,"
he concluded.
From: A. Papazian