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TURKEY LAUNCHED ANOTHER ATTACK
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25591.html
Published: 12:09:19 - 27/03/2012
Turkey is making another attempt to activate the Karabakh issue
to avoid the recognition of the Armenian genocide by the U.S. this
year too.
In the meeting with the U.S. president, the Turkish Prime Minister
Erdogan made two statements demonstratively connecting them. He said
that he could persuade Azerbaijan to agree with the settlement of the
Karabakh issue if the United States, Russia and France for their part
persuade Armenia. At the same time, he hinted that Turkey is sick of
facing the April 24 genocide issue every year.
Into doing what will Turkey persuade Azerbaijan? There can be two main
options - either it may persuade it to launch a war or refuse these
plans and open the border with Armenia without a settlement in place?
Obviously, the main goal of the world powers relating to the settlement
of the Karabakh issue is the opening of regional communications, at
the same time, preserving the Armenian zone between Muslim Azerbaijan,
Turkey and Iran. To achieve this goal, the method of final settlement
of the conflict has been used for 20 years.
However, over the past year, they have been obviously considering
the possibility of introducing the method of "cooperation and opening
the borders without settlement".
Azerbaijan disagrees with this method since by opening borders it
loses the only argument against Armenia. With the opening of the
borders, the South Caucasus region loses its conflicting essence and
Baku will hardly manage to make the interest of the world powers to
meet its demands.
Perhaps, Erdogan meant this when he dwelt on persuading Baku. In the
end, everyone is interested in the opening of borders. There are hints
that Russia is getting ready to launch railway communications with
Georgia through Abkhazia. Georgia hints it will not be an obstacle. If
the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia and Armenia and Turkey is
opened the region will prosper.
Turkey understands that if the borders are opened, it will have to
face April 24 every year.
The United States, Russia and France apparently have to persuade
Armenia to surrender certain regions to Azerbaijan. Besides, they
need to persuade Armenia to recognize the current borders of Turkey
and refuse any territorial claims.
Are the great powers happy with such a prospect - weak Armenia and
unrecognized Karabakh between strengthening Turkey and Azerbaijan?
Hardly so because nothing has changed since the beginning of the 20th
century when the great powers did everything to erase the borders
between Turkey and Azerbaijan.
The information that Turkey, the United States and Russia allegedly
"want to organize one more meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents" is interesting. In particular, the Turkish political
analyst Guner Ozkan said about this.
It is also interesting that the American co-chair of the OSCE Minsk
Group Robert Bradtke has recently stated that Armenia and Azerbaijan
are closer to the settlement than they think.
There are also attempts to reform the OSCE Minsk Group and strengthen
the role of Turkey and European Union in it. It also proves that
Turkey has launched one more attack understanding that this is the
best form of defense. It will need defense on April 24 when Barack
Obama may take an unprecedented step.
From: A. Papazian
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25591.html
Published: 12:09:19 - 27/03/2012
Turkey is making another attempt to activate the Karabakh issue
to avoid the recognition of the Armenian genocide by the U.S. this
year too.
In the meeting with the U.S. president, the Turkish Prime Minister
Erdogan made two statements demonstratively connecting them. He said
that he could persuade Azerbaijan to agree with the settlement of the
Karabakh issue if the United States, Russia and France for their part
persuade Armenia. At the same time, he hinted that Turkey is sick of
facing the April 24 genocide issue every year.
Into doing what will Turkey persuade Azerbaijan? There can be two main
options - either it may persuade it to launch a war or refuse these
plans and open the border with Armenia without a settlement in place?
Obviously, the main goal of the world powers relating to the settlement
of the Karabakh issue is the opening of regional communications, at
the same time, preserving the Armenian zone between Muslim Azerbaijan,
Turkey and Iran. To achieve this goal, the method of final settlement
of the conflict has been used for 20 years.
However, over the past year, they have been obviously considering
the possibility of introducing the method of "cooperation and opening
the borders without settlement".
Azerbaijan disagrees with this method since by opening borders it
loses the only argument against Armenia. With the opening of the
borders, the South Caucasus region loses its conflicting essence and
Baku will hardly manage to make the interest of the world powers to
meet its demands.
Perhaps, Erdogan meant this when he dwelt on persuading Baku. In the
end, everyone is interested in the opening of borders. There are hints
that Russia is getting ready to launch railway communications with
Georgia through Abkhazia. Georgia hints it will not be an obstacle. If
the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia and Armenia and Turkey is
opened the region will prosper.
Turkey understands that if the borders are opened, it will have to
face April 24 every year.
The United States, Russia and France apparently have to persuade
Armenia to surrender certain regions to Azerbaijan. Besides, they
need to persuade Armenia to recognize the current borders of Turkey
and refuse any territorial claims.
Are the great powers happy with such a prospect - weak Armenia and
unrecognized Karabakh between strengthening Turkey and Azerbaijan?
Hardly so because nothing has changed since the beginning of the 20th
century when the great powers did everything to erase the borders
between Turkey and Azerbaijan.
The information that Turkey, the United States and Russia allegedly
"want to organize one more meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents" is interesting. In particular, the Turkish political
analyst Guner Ozkan said about this.
It is also interesting that the American co-chair of the OSCE Minsk
Group Robert Bradtke has recently stated that Armenia and Azerbaijan
are closer to the settlement than they think.
There are also attempts to reform the OSCE Minsk Group and strengthen
the role of Turkey and European Union in it. It also proves that
Turkey has launched one more attack understanding that this is the
best form of defense. It will need defense on April 24 when Barack
Obama may take an unprecedented step.
From: A. Papazian