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WE SHOULD BACK UP AUSTRALIAN STATE'S RESOLUTION
Vahan Avetisyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/politics/view/27878
Monday, 29 October 2012, 13:25
Several days ago one of the biggest states of Australia, New South
Wales, recognized the independence of Artsakh. This is not the first
case. Two U.S.states, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, have called
Washington to recognize the independence of Karabakh.
There are more than enough grounds in the American legislative bodies
to pass pro-Armenian resolutions - big Armenian community, traditional
and influential Armenian lobby, independence of government bodies
from the central government. Without underestimating the resolutions
on Artsakh adopted by the American states, we should note that it
is the resolution adopted by Australia to mark the beginning of
the international process of recognition of Artsakh. Australia has
always been reserved in regard to issues which have nothing in common
with its interests. This may be a positive signal to those countries
which at least minimally depend on Azerbaijan's oil and want to have
a precedent to justify their decision to recognize Artsakh.
All this will come. As of now, I think the main task of the Armenian
authorities should be to defend the resolution of the Australian
state and to develop that success implementing relevant steps.
The first step should be the embassy of Armenia in Australia.
We witnessed in some situations how our enemies used our
self-confidence and non consistent behavior after our successes. It
happened after Safarov's case. We can still remember our enthusiasm
after Hungary had sentenced the Azerbaijani killer for life and the
court rejected Baku's motion to extradite him. Now, remember what
happened 8 years later when we failed because Azerbaijan set up the
embassy in Hungary and worked actively against the sentence.
Today, official Baku made a query with the authorities of Australia.
Official Canberra may answer that the steps of one of its state
do not express the official stance of the country but I'm sure the
Azerbaijani-Australian "correspondence" won't end so easily.
Azerbaijan will possibly set up an embassy in Canberra in order
to work with other states of Australia to make sure they pass
counter-resolutions to prevent the tendency.
How about us? We should be ready for everything, we should at least
be prepared to preserve what we have already achieved and to create
a favorable atmosphere to create a precedent in other states.
Influential representation is necessary not only through community
but also embassy's formal work.
Vahan Avetisyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/politics/view/27878
Monday, 29 October 2012, 13:25
Several days ago one of the biggest states of Australia, New South
Wales, recognized the independence of Artsakh. This is not the first
case. Two U.S.states, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, have called
Washington to recognize the independence of Karabakh.
There are more than enough grounds in the American legislative bodies
to pass pro-Armenian resolutions - big Armenian community, traditional
and influential Armenian lobby, independence of government bodies
from the central government. Without underestimating the resolutions
on Artsakh adopted by the American states, we should note that it
is the resolution adopted by Australia to mark the beginning of
the international process of recognition of Artsakh. Australia has
always been reserved in regard to issues which have nothing in common
with its interests. This may be a positive signal to those countries
which at least minimally depend on Azerbaijan's oil and want to have
a precedent to justify their decision to recognize Artsakh.
All this will come. As of now, I think the main task of the Armenian
authorities should be to defend the resolution of the Australian
state and to develop that success implementing relevant steps.
The first step should be the embassy of Armenia in Australia.
We witnessed in some situations how our enemies used our
self-confidence and non consistent behavior after our successes. It
happened after Safarov's case. We can still remember our enthusiasm
after Hungary had sentenced the Azerbaijani killer for life and the
court rejected Baku's motion to extradite him. Now, remember what
happened 8 years later when we failed because Azerbaijan set up the
embassy in Hungary and worked actively against the sentence.
Today, official Baku made a query with the authorities of Australia.
Official Canberra may answer that the steps of one of its state
do not express the official stance of the country but I'm sure the
Azerbaijani-Australian "correspondence" won't end so easily.
Azerbaijan will possibly set up an embassy in Canberra in order
to work with other states of Australia to make sure they pass
counter-resolutions to prevent the tendency.
How about us? We should be ready for everything, we should at least
be prepared to preserve what we have already achieved and to create
a favorable atmosphere to create a precedent in other states.
Influential representation is necessary not only through community
but also embassy's formal work.