Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

One Day Armenia Will Have To

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • One Day Armenia Will Have To

    ONE DAY ARMENIA WILL HAVE TO
    HAKOB BADALYAN

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics26860.html
    Published: 12:45:21 - 16/07/2012

    On July 14, the Georgian foreign minister Grigol Vashadze arrived in
    Armenia for a working visit at the invitation of the Armenian minister
    of foreign affairs.

    The visit of the Georgian minister did not receive much attention in
    Armenia. What is the reason? The weekend or the conditional that if
    the country is not famous or a global actor, then no one cares for
    the visit of the foreign minister of that country.

    Meanwhile, Georgia is a country of strategic importance for Armenia,
    especially taking into account the Armenian-Georgian issues and
    disagreements. Moreover, the visit takes place amid interesting
    regional developments.

    Being neighbors and having Javakhk as an important region in terms
    of influence on our relations, Armenia and Georgia should be specific
    and clear toward each other, avoiding double games or double standards.

    Both countries state they have no issues that couldn't be solved
    through negotiations. This is a statement that does not tell anything
    because it proves the mutable relations between Armenia and Georgia
    when stability and strategic predictability are on a very low level.

    The feeling is that in their interaction both countries keep in mind
    a third, fourth or even fifth country.

    Georgia is never present on the political agenda of Armenia. For
    example, there can be important positions on the Armenian-Turkish,
    Armenian-Russian, Armenian-Iranian, Armenian-U.S. relations but the
    Armenian-Georgian relations never appear on the foreign political
    agenda in conceptual terms.

    Not because everything is fine but because the political class of
    Armenia forms its agenda on the basis of the national interests of
    Armenia and its responsibility for the national interests but out
    of conventionalities, cliches, and the provincial urge not to stay
    behind the geopolitical fashion.

    The same is for Georgia. But it is not important for Armenia what
    moods there are in Georgia. However, Armenia could dictate a relevant
    behavior to Georgia by changing its own attitude.

    It seems that there is some mutual inner prompting or even agreement
    to keep the Armenian-Georgian relations far from the public not to
    be affected or manipulated.

    But this is not a good tactics of defense because the possibilities
    of the modern policy and information technologies enable learning
    even the most backstage realities, and in this case the chances and
    risks of manipulation increase.

    Meanwhile, Armenia and Georgia have a number of issues to address,
    permanent issues. Anyway, Armenia needs to be in this process and deal
    with the Armenia-Georgia issues starting from the issues of Javakhk
    and finishing with the whole package of the Georgian-Armenian issues
    of organizational, social, cultural and regional character.

    Georgia has no alternative to supporting Armenia or to maneuver under
    the illusion of transit territory becoming a Turkish-Azerbaijani
    "plot of land" which will sooner or later be rented by Russia.

    It is meaningless of Georgia to rely on the West because the main
    regional axis for the West is Armenia, while Georgia is a backup
    option. The past 7-8 years have proved that it is ineffective to
    solve issues without the main axis.

Working...
X