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GOVERNMENT DOESN'T NEED CONTROL OVERHEAD
Naira Hayrumyan
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments23427.html
14:47:39 - 20/09/2011
The Armenia-Diaspora Forum was launched in Armenia in which about
500 representatives of 50 countries of the world participate.
The forum will last for 2 days, till the Independence Day, the
delegates will take part in the festive events, gaze at the military
force and will leave for home inspired by the success of Armenia.
The forum will hardly reach agreement on the key issue of relations
between Armenia and the Diaspora - institutionalization of the
participation of 7 million Diaspora Armenians in shaping the politics
of Armenia of 3 million Armenians, determining its political line
and making national and state decisions.
For 20 years of the independence of Armenia, no such institutions
have been set up, and the problem is not the diversity of the Diaspora
itself which is divided by virtue of party and other characteristics
but perhaps the wish of the Armenian authorities which do not want
to have a super-national institution overhead, empowered to make
decisions or to veto.
The creation of such an institution is not helpful only to the
government which is not eternal. Meanwhile, it is highly urgent for the
society which may get additional protection from external interference
in the face of some pan-national board, from the role of an object
of international politics and an important incentive of modernization.
The Armenian Diaspora is best organized in Americas and the Near
East, though the Russian Diaspora outnumbers them all. The process
of centralization of the European Diaspora is also underway. The
increasing influence of the Diaspora of countries ruled by modern
worldview, democratic approaches and concepts of free market may help
introduce this trend to Armenia.
Meanwhile Armenia moves by the Soviet Russian inertia, and it
automatically blocks the way to homeland for most representatives of
the Armenian Diaspora who wish to make investments in Armenia, shape
a new business culture which defies corruption, ensure participation
of all the citizens in decision making.
The Armenian Diaspora may do a great favor to Armenia by withdrawing it
from the inert post-Soviet track. It is better to do it with a swift
move of the hand, and the action of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun could be
such a move when its Central Committee of West America made a tough
statement regarding the policy of Serzh Sargsyan. Unfortunately,
this statement was later disavowed, other organizations did not join,
and the effort of the Diaspora to express its opinion on the internal
policy of Armenia failed.
However, if nobody is able to resolve the issue of
institutional participation of the Diaspora in decision making,
Armenia-Artsakh-Diaspora will remain just a triangle the sides of which
join one another but do not allow the angles to meet. The Diaspora
will remain a "foreign virgin land" from where they will be able to
pump money, and Armenia itself will remain a province which does not
want to raise its head and look where the world is moving.
From: Baghdasarian
Naira Hayrumyan
Lragir.am News
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments23427.html
14:47:39 - 20/09/2011
The Armenia-Diaspora Forum was launched in Armenia in which about
500 representatives of 50 countries of the world participate.
The forum will last for 2 days, till the Independence Day, the
delegates will take part in the festive events, gaze at the military
force and will leave for home inspired by the success of Armenia.
The forum will hardly reach agreement on the key issue of relations
between Armenia and the Diaspora - institutionalization of the
participation of 7 million Diaspora Armenians in shaping the politics
of Armenia of 3 million Armenians, determining its political line
and making national and state decisions.
For 20 years of the independence of Armenia, no such institutions
have been set up, and the problem is not the diversity of the Diaspora
itself which is divided by virtue of party and other characteristics
but perhaps the wish of the Armenian authorities which do not want
to have a super-national institution overhead, empowered to make
decisions or to veto.
The creation of such an institution is not helpful only to the
government which is not eternal. Meanwhile, it is highly urgent for the
society which may get additional protection from external interference
in the face of some pan-national board, from the role of an object
of international politics and an important incentive of modernization.
The Armenian Diaspora is best organized in Americas and the Near
East, though the Russian Diaspora outnumbers them all. The process
of centralization of the European Diaspora is also underway. The
increasing influence of the Diaspora of countries ruled by modern
worldview, democratic approaches and concepts of free market may help
introduce this trend to Armenia.
Meanwhile Armenia moves by the Soviet Russian inertia, and it
automatically blocks the way to homeland for most representatives of
the Armenian Diaspora who wish to make investments in Armenia, shape
a new business culture which defies corruption, ensure participation
of all the citizens in decision making.
The Armenian Diaspora may do a great favor to Armenia by withdrawing it
from the inert post-Soviet track. It is better to do it with a swift
move of the hand, and the action of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun could be
such a move when its Central Committee of West America made a tough
statement regarding the policy of Serzh Sargsyan. Unfortunately,
this statement was later disavowed, other organizations did not join,
and the effort of the Diaspora to express its opinion on the internal
policy of Armenia failed.
However, if nobody is able to resolve the issue of
institutional participation of the Diaspora in decision making,
Armenia-Artsakh-Diaspora will remain just a triangle the sides of which
join one another but do not allow the angles to meet. The Diaspora
will remain a "foreign virgin land" from where they will be able to
pump money, and Armenia itself will remain a province which does not
want to raise its head and look where the world is moving.
From: Baghdasarian