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RUSSIA DIDN'T ALLOW ARMENIA TO APPLY TO SAME ISLANDS
Hakob Badalyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/27886
Comments - Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 11:17
The decision of the Australian state to recognize the independence
of Nagorno Karabakh Republic aroused an understandable excitement
within the Armenian society. Maybe it was more than the excitement
that aroused the victory of Artsakh national football team over the
Abkhazian national team. The excitement would be higher if the goal
was not torn and if the ball did not fly through the net when the
national team of Artsakh scored.
The goal was scored in Stepanakert stadium, and Abkhaz players did
not object to that but in international practice organizers are fined
and disqualified for torn goals.
We can see a similar torn goal in the process of the international
recognition of Artsakh. It is even unknown who the goalkeeper is,
Armenia or Artsakh. But the recognition of Artsakh's independence by
the Australian state resembles the pierced goal and the ball flying
through the net.
One is also "fined" and "disqualified" for this in international
politics in the form of the lack of any serious recognition for long.
The point is that recognition by New Southern Wales is a matter of
home policy rather that a serious policy conducted by Armenia and
Karabakh. Perhaps, there was no other more significant administrative
unit that would agree to recognize Karabakh, otherwise the Armenian
foreign policy would have go even farther.
The Russian style of the Armenian and Karabakh foreign policy is felt
everywhere. It is in the very blood of the authorities. A huge country
like Russia was looking for a small island amid the ocean to have it
recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia while such
recognitions make the unrecognized republic appear unserious.
Apparently, Russia has advised Armenia and Karabakh but did not allow
it to apply to the same island for Abkhazia and Ossetia.
Surely, we need to be grateful to the members of the parliament of
New Southern Wales. They took a humanitarian step but, perhaps it
should not be brought to the level of international policy because
it is one thing when you play football with a torn goal and it is
another thing when you have a torn goal in the international arena.
The leakage that soon Uruguay will also recognize Karabakh won't help.
If Uruguay wanted to recognize Karabakh, it would do that without
advertisement.
The recognition by New Southern Wales does not lay out the path to
the Karabakh recognition but proves how firmly the door is closed.
Otherwise, Armenia and Karabakh would have found something closer
than Australia.
Sometimes even the smallest things matter in politics but when
politics is mixed with self-deception, the small things may have a
fatal outcome producing the effect of a boomerang.
Artsakh has passed a more serious path and is of a more serious
geopolitical significance. If there is no will, courage or imagination
to boost this, then they should at least refrain from making it less
serious in order to meet personal or group demands.
In this sense, New Southern Wales does not seem a success of foreign
policy but the result of compromise with international political
centers when the tactics of policymakers of Armenia not to notice
or hand over what is in their hands is presented to the society as
cosmic achievements.
From: Baghdasarian
Hakob Badalyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/27886
Comments - Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 11:17
The decision of the Australian state to recognize the independence
of Nagorno Karabakh Republic aroused an understandable excitement
within the Armenian society. Maybe it was more than the excitement
that aroused the victory of Artsakh national football team over the
Abkhazian national team. The excitement would be higher if the goal
was not torn and if the ball did not fly through the net when the
national team of Artsakh scored.
The goal was scored in Stepanakert stadium, and Abkhaz players did
not object to that but in international practice organizers are fined
and disqualified for torn goals.
We can see a similar torn goal in the process of the international
recognition of Artsakh. It is even unknown who the goalkeeper is,
Armenia or Artsakh. But the recognition of Artsakh's independence by
the Australian state resembles the pierced goal and the ball flying
through the net.
One is also "fined" and "disqualified" for this in international
politics in the form of the lack of any serious recognition for long.
The point is that recognition by New Southern Wales is a matter of
home policy rather that a serious policy conducted by Armenia and
Karabakh. Perhaps, there was no other more significant administrative
unit that would agree to recognize Karabakh, otherwise the Armenian
foreign policy would have go even farther.
The Russian style of the Armenian and Karabakh foreign policy is felt
everywhere. It is in the very blood of the authorities. A huge country
like Russia was looking for a small island amid the ocean to have it
recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia while such
recognitions make the unrecognized republic appear unserious.
Apparently, Russia has advised Armenia and Karabakh but did not allow
it to apply to the same island for Abkhazia and Ossetia.
Surely, we need to be grateful to the members of the parliament of
New Southern Wales. They took a humanitarian step but, perhaps it
should not be brought to the level of international policy because
it is one thing when you play football with a torn goal and it is
another thing when you have a torn goal in the international arena.
The leakage that soon Uruguay will also recognize Karabakh won't help.
If Uruguay wanted to recognize Karabakh, it would do that without
advertisement.
The recognition by New Southern Wales does not lay out the path to
the Karabakh recognition but proves how firmly the door is closed.
Otherwise, Armenia and Karabakh would have found something closer
than Australia.
Sometimes even the smallest things matter in politics but when
politics is mixed with self-deception, the small things may have a
fatal outcome producing the effect of a boomerang.
Artsakh has passed a more serious path and is of a more serious
geopolitical significance. If there is no will, courage or imagination
to boost this, then they should at least refrain from making it less
serious in order to meet personal or group demands.
In this sense, New Southern Wales does not seem a success of foreign
policy but the result of compromise with international political
centers when the tactics of policymakers of Armenia not to notice
or hand over what is in their hands is presented to the society as
cosmic achievements.
From: Baghdasarian