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IT'S GOOD MRS. CLINTON IS TIRED
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics26322.html
Published: 15:53:01 - 25/05/2012
"Ethnic Armenian separatists, with Armenia's support, continued to
control most of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and seven
surrounding Azerbaijani territories," runs the U.S. State Department
report 2011 on the state of human rights in Armenia.
The impression is that Hillary Clinton is either unaware of the
negotiations on Karabakh and the U.S. position or this statement was
copy-pasted or appeared there by someone's initiative.
It is the same as to state that the American separatists continue
to control the British territories and the adjacent states. However,
it is not the most important thing. Most probably, Mrs. Clinton forgot
that the United States is a co-chair of the Minsk Group and the United
States has announced for a great deal of times that Karabakh's status
will be identified by way of peace talks. In other words, the United
States did not think that belonging to Azerbaijan is a final status.
Were Karabakh an Azerbaijani territory, no talks would be conducted.
The United States and the other states would simply force Armenia to
return Karabakh and that's it. Let them kill and displace all the
"separatists" and return the territory to Azerbaijan. This would
be real protection of human rights. Besides, Mrs. Clinton has
forgotten that the agency she heads has made efforts not to allow
the Armenian-Turkish relations be linked with the settlement of
the Karabakh issue so that the Armenian "separatists" continue to
"control" Karabakh.
Generally, what is the point of reminding about this issue in the
report on human rights? After all, it could not mention it at all or
do like Freedom House which evaluates the state of human rights in
Karabakh in a separate article. Even though Freedom House considers
Karabakh non-free, at least it recognizes that people live there,
and their rights must be protected.
The Armenian MFA must make a statement and show that a position
announced beforehand casts doubt on the impartiality of the United
States as a mediator. The U.S. department of state may announce later
that the sentence appeared in the report by a technical accident. It
is necessary to find out who asked Mrs. Clinton to incorporate this
point in the report which has nothing to do with human rights. The
impression is that Clinton does not know that her country's Congress
intends to boost assistance from 2 to 5 million dollars. By the way,
when she was secretary of state, the U.S. assistance was cut from 10
to 2 million dollars.
Perhaps she does not know that Rhode Island called the president and
the Congress to recognize the independence of Karabakh and the right
of its people to democracy.
There are similar statements in a lot of documents and the
international community does not hide that the end of negotiations
recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Every document
with reference to similar documents, including in the summit of NATO,
recognizes the basic right to self-determination.
It is good that Clinton is tired and wants to leave politics.
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics26322.html
Published: 15:53:01 - 25/05/2012
"Ethnic Armenian separatists, with Armenia's support, continued to
control most of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and seven
surrounding Azerbaijani territories," runs the U.S. State Department
report 2011 on the state of human rights in Armenia.
The impression is that Hillary Clinton is either unaware of the
negotiations on Karabakh and the U.S. position or this statement was
copy-pasted or appeared there by someone's initiative.
It is the same as to state that the American separatists continue
to control the British territories and the adjacent states. However,
it is not the most important thing. Most probably, Mrs. Clinton forgot
that the United States is a co-chair of the Minsk Group and the United
States has announced for a great deal of times that Karabakh's status
will be identified by way of peace talks. In other words, the United
States did not think that belonging to Azerbaijan is a final status.
Were Karabakh an Azerbaijani territory, no talks would be conducted.
The United States and the other states would simply force Armenia to
return Karabakh and that's it. Let them kill and displace all the
"separatists" and return the territory to Azerbaijan. This would
be real protection of human rights. Besides, Mrs. Clinton has
forgotten that the agency she heads has made efforts not to allow
the Armenian-Turkish relations be linked with the settlement of
the Karabakh issue so that the Armenian "separatists" continue to
"control" Karabakh.
Generally, what is the point of reminding about this issue in the
report on human rights? After all, it could not mention it at all or
do like Freedom House which evaluates the state of human rights in
Karabakh in a separate article. Even though Freedom House considers
Karabakh non-free, at least it recognizes that people live there,
and their rights must be protected.
The Armenian MFA must make a statement and show that a position
announced beforehand casts doubt on the impartiality of the United
States as a mediator. The U.S. department of state may announce later
that the sentence appeared in the report by a technical accident. It
is necessary to find out who asked Mrs. Clinton to incorporate this
point in the report which has nothing to do with human rights. The
impression is that Clinton does not know that her country's Congress
intends to boost assistance from 2 to 5 million dollars. By the way,
when she was secretary of state, the U.S. assistance was cut from 10
to 2 million dollars.
Perhaps she does not know that Rhode Island called the president and
the Congress to recognize the independence of Karabakh and the right
of its people to democracy.
There are similar statements in a lot of documents and the
international community does not hide that the end of negotiations
recognizes the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Every document
with reference to similar documents, including in the summit of NATO,
recognizes the basic right to self-determination.
It is good that Clinton is tired and wants to leave politics.