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KARABAKH'S SURRENDER IS NOT A SALVATION
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25832.html
Published: 15:02:11 - 16/04/2012
Why are parties avoiding the Karabakh topic during the election
campaign like the devil of incense? The last elections were almost
based on the Karabakh issue while now such silence.
Has Armenia changed, or the Karabakh issue has seized being urgent
in the world? Perhaps, both.
Armenia is really in a new reality. First, the society has changed,
which is hard to be distracted from the social-economic and civil
issues, by statements that the authorities or the opposition surrenders
Karabakh. People have a much more sober outlook on the life, realizing
that the reason for the poor state in the country, the economic and
legal crisis, is not Karabakh. The reason is the reluctance of the
authorities to respect the law and build a free economy and democracy.
Besides, we have a situation in place, when the ruling and oppositional
parties, RPA, Prosperous Armenia and the Armenian National Congress
have almost the same position on the Karabakh issue. None of them
denies the Karabakh issue will need concessions.
The RPA tries to postpone such a settlement, the Congress calls to
cut the Karabakh knot. As to the Prosperous Armenia, then it has
never issued a clear position on the Karabakh issue, and now, Vartan
Oskanian only notes that when he was Foreign Minister, their government
succeeded in setting the Karabakh's right to self-determination in
the international arena.
Only the Heritage party issued its stances on the Karabakh issue. The
party supports the recognition of the NKR within its current borders,
first of all by Armenia. The same stance holds the ARFD, true, noting
that compromises are possible only if the concessions are equal by
both sides.
Why did the Karabakh issue become lose urgency for the parties? Do
they think, in place of the ruling party, they could hardly do more
taking into account the rough international status quo on the Karabakh
issue? Or do they support the policy of the ruling party.
In Armenia, at the last elections, something changed in the society's
approach to the Karabakh issue. Earlier, the compromises were
accepted by the larger part of the society and the main parties,
as something inevitable, as a salvations, and the status quo become
inaccessible. But, during these years, the psychology of many changed
- a whole class of educated, determined people, who are aware of the
right of the Karabakh people to the status quo and the inadmissibility
of the breach of, because the new situation will definitely worse
than the status quo, appeared.
This transformation does not let many forces speculate the Karabakh
issue. The Armenian National Congress can't state already that the
authorities are robbing the country under the cover of Karabakh. The
RPA itself can't accuse Congress of being ready to sell Karabakh since
the Congress, and not only, started understanding, that Karabakh's
surrender will not be a salvation for Armenia, but a catastrophe.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25832.html
Published: 15:02:11 - 16/04/2012
Why are parties avoiding the Karabakh topic during the election
campaign like the devil of incense? The last elections were almost
based on the Karabakh issue while now such silence.
Has Armenia changed, or the Karabakh issue has seized being urgent
in the world? Perhaps, both.
Armenia is really in a new reality. First, the society has changed,
which is hard to be distracted from the social-economic and civil
issues, by statements that the authorities or the opposition surrenders
Karabakh. People have a much more sober outlook on the life, realizing
that the reason for the poor state in the country, the economic and
legal crisis, is not Karabakh. The reason is the reluctance of the
authorities to respect the law and build a free economy and democracy.
Besides, we have a situation in place, when the ruling and oppositional
parties, RPA, Prosperous Armenia and the Armenian National Congress
have almost the same position on the Karabakh issue. None of them
denies the Karabakh issue will need concessions.
The RPA tries to postpone such a settlement, the Congress calls to
cut the Karabakh knot. As to the Prosperous Armenia, then it has
never issued a clear position on the Karabakh issue, and now, Vartan
Oskanian only notes that when he was Foreign Minister, their government
succeeded in setting the Karabakh's right to self-determination in
the international arena.
Only the Heritage party issued its stances on the Karabakh issue. The
party supports the recognition of the NKR within its current borders,
first of all by Armenia. The same stance holds the ARFD, true, noting
that compromises are possible only if the concessions are equal by
both sides.
Why did the Karabakh issue become lose urgency for the parties? Do
they think, in place of the ruling party, they could hardly do more
taking into account the rough international status quo on the Karabakh
issue? Or do they support the policy of the ruling party.
In Armenia, at the last elections, something changed in the society's
approach to the Karabakh issue. Earlier, the compromises were
accepted by the larger part of the society and the main parties,
as something inevitable, as a salvations, and the status quo become
inaccessible. But, during these years, the psychology of many changed
- a whole class of educated, determined people, who are aware of the
right of the Karabakh people to the status quo and the inadmissibility
of the breach of, because the new situation will definitely worse
than the status quo, appeared.
This transformation does not let many forces speculate the Karabakh
issue. The Armenian National Congress can't state already that the
authorities are robbing the country under the cover of Karabakh. The
RPA itself can't accuse Congress of being ready to sell Karabakh since
the Congress, and not only, started understanding, that Karabakh's
surrender will not be a salvation for Armenia, but a catastrophe.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress