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JIRAIR LIBARIDIAN: "COLD WAR IN CAUCASUS CONTINUES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL FORCES"
APA
June 28 2012
Azerbaijan
Independence doesn't mean that you can behave as you want
Baku. Ramil Mammadli - APA. "I am very happy to arrive in Baku. I
want to find new friends as a result of this event. Do people live
in Caucasus see their future? We don't still approach this issue so
and we don't see settlement of problems at a regional level. Before
our expectations were from Moscow, but now from Brussels, Strasbourg
and the other cities. Now we are searching for our future elsewhere,"
said Jirair Libaridian, senior adviser to the ex-president of Armenia,
Levon Ter-Petrossian at the international conference entitled "Joint
efforts for the sake of Caucasus' future: Past 20 years and its
lessons", which was organized by the Center for Strategic Studies
under the President of Azerbaijan (SAM), Caucasus International and
Turkish Policy Quarterly magazines. Libaridian said that everybody
thought that the "cold war" has ended after gaining independence: "But
the "cold war" in Caucasus hasn't ended, the war continues under the
influence of external forces. We don't know how much time this cold
war will continue. It has already known that independence doesn't
mean that you can behave as you want. We can see it much in small
countries. We made big mistakes. The Nagorno Karabakh conflict is not
problem of the two countries. It is problem of Georgia too, because,
it is difficult to carry out joint projects in such situation."
President of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International
Studies Alexander Rondeli noted that South Caucasus countries look
like experimental rabbits: "After independence, we thought that how
we would pursue state-building policy. We thought that everything
would be better. But we had no strategic culture. Ethnic nationalism
annihilated Georgia. We try to solve this problem. We haven't got
necessary results yet. New revolutionary group in Georgia try to find
common point in security and democracy. They achieve successes in
most cases. But there are still difficulties. There are such people
in Georgia that they still think about the USSR. I am a classic soviet
product, but I don't think so. Georgia was a multinational country. We
must find common formula in this issue."
APA
June 28 2012
Azerbaijan
Independence doesn't mean that you can behave as you want
Baku. Ramil Mammadli - APA. "I am very happy to arrive in Baku. I
want to find new friends as a result of this event. Do people live
in Caucasus see their future? We don't still approach this issue so
and we don't see settlement of problems at a regional level. Before
our expectations were from Moscow, but now from Brussels, Strasbourg
and the other cities. Now we are searching for our future elsewhere,"
said Jirair Libaridian, senior adviser to the ex-president of Armenia,
Levon Ter-Petrossian at the international conference entitled "Joint
efforts for the sake of Caucasus' future: Past 20 years and its
lessons", which was organized by the Center for Strategic Studies
under the President of Azerbaijan (SAM), Caucasus International and
Turkish Policy Quarterly magazines. Libaridian said that everybody
thought that the "cold war" has ended after gaining independence: "But
the "cold war" in Caucasus hasn't ended, the war continues under the
influence of external forces. We don't know how much time this cold
war will continue. It has already known that independence doesn't
mean that you can behave as you want. We can see it much in small
countries. We made big mistakes. The Nagorno Karabakh conflict is not
problem of the two countries. It is problem of Georgia too, because,
it is difficult to carry out joint projects in such situation."
President of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International
Studies Alexander Rondeli noted that South Caucasus countries look
like experimental rabbits: "After independence, we thought that how
we would pursue state-building policy. We thought that everything
would be better. But we had no strategic culture. Ethnic nationalism
annihilated Georgia. We try to solve this problem. We haven't got
necessary results yet. New revolutionary group in Georgia try to find
common point in security and democracy. They achieve successes in
most cases. But there are still difficulties. There are such people
in Georgia that they still think about the USSR. I am a classic soviet
product, but I don't think so. Georgia was a multinational country. We
must find common formula in this issue."