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    ARMENIAN FLAG WILL ALWAYS BE FLYING OVER ANCIENT SHUSHI
    Karine Ter-Sahakyan

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    May 16, 2012

    Aliyev's propaganda may speak of poverty in Armenia and weakness
    of the Armenian army as much as it wishes. In fact, all of this is
    pathetic attempts to pass the desirable for reality.

    It has just so happened that for the past 10 years I have been
    visiting Shushi on May 9. It has already become a sort of tradition,
    almost a ritual. And every year the weather in Nagorno-Karabakh is
    just disgusting these days: fog, constant rain and cold. But this is
    not what is worst.

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Simply every year you see with pain and bitterness
    that Shushi is almost unchanged; construction progresses rather
    slowly. By and large, one can understand the NKR authorities: war
    is not over, there are threats coming from Baku, the cease-fire
    is violated every now and then. The fragile peace could collapse
    overnight, and then all hopes would be centered on the army. The
    famous aphorism "If you do not want to feed your army, you will have
    to feed someone else's" could be accurately applied to the NKR Defense
    Army. Defense expenditures are growing each year. To be more accurate,
    Karabakh people are forced into an arms race in the hope that they
    will not endure this weight and will give up. But let us say once and
    for all in order not to revert to this issue: Azerbaijan can dream of
    what she pleases, no one forbids, but the flag of Azerbaijan, as Ilham
    Aliyev likes to reiterate, will never be flying over the presidential
    palace in Stepanakert. Not one generation of Azerbaijanis needs to
    be changed, so that this people would look at the world through their
    own eyes and not through those of the Aliyev clan.

    Narrates Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan: "We consecrated the church in
    Shushi. It's windy; rain is starting. And suddenly, as if by magic,
    as soon as I start telling "Our Father", the wind drops and clouds
    literally hang over the church, revealing a piece of blue sky. We
    consecrated the church and then a hurricane started..." New buildings
    are being erected in Shushi, but construction is progressing rather
    slowly: so far there's a new cultural center, the hotel "Shushi Plaza",
    attempts of cosmetic repairs on the buildings looking the same as
    20 years ago - smoky openings of windows, empty entrances. As if
    life has gone out of the town and is now thinking whether it should
    return to the old ashes or not. But, to all appearances, life will
    return, and the historical capital of Nagorno-Karabakh will not be
    inferior to others. And above all this rises the enormous bulk of
    Ghazanchetsots as a reproach and a reminder that we must think not
    only of God but also of the laity. Compared to Shushi, Stepanakert
    looks beautiful and well-groomed - clean, embellished, as if there
    had been no war. It's true that on the outskirts of the city there
    still are houses affected by the bombings, but they do not spoil
    the overall picture. There is the great business center "Europe"
    constructed. Nice of course, but not really fitting into the overall
    architectural image of the city. However, image as such does not
    exist - a typical Soviet provincial town with a couple of different
    supermarkets, which, in fact, are just big stores.

    But what pleases you is the increasing number of children on the
    streets. Archbishop Martirosyan says that every time he baptizes
    infants, he constantly says to their parents: "It's too few, give
    birth to another." "I have baptized 6 children of one couple, and
    they are going to have another soon. Children are never too many."

    To our remark that it is difficult to bring up so many children, the
    archbishop says laughing, "Let them be four instead of three. They
    will grow up, and nothing will become of them."

    Anyway, we won and established the second Armenian state on our own
    lands. And, in reality, this government is much more democratic than
    that of neighboring Azerbaijan, which is "famous" for its persecution
    of dissidents and lavish shows at a time when its own people are
    beginning to lose patience in despair. Aliyev's propaganda may speak
    of poverty in Armenia and weakness of the Armenian army as much as
    it wishes. In fact, all of this is pathetic attempts to pass the
    desirable for reality. God be their judge of all. The main thing is
    that the Armenian flag will always be flying over ancient Shushi.

    And lastly, casually becoming a non-permanent member of the UN Security
    Council, Azerbaijan will now consistently, with or without reason, turn
    to the Security Council with the Karabakh issue. On May 8 Azerbaijan
    "demanded" from the Security Council members to "express an opinion"
    on the Karabakh conflict, although the views of the U.S., France,
    Russia, Britain, and China have long been known. Or is it possible
    that Baku seriously thinks that the UN Security Council could change
    its position?


    From: Baghdasarian
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