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ARMENIA IS BECOMING SOVEREIGN
Armenia is becoming an important pillar of reformatting in the region
of the great Near East. Real and historical events are taking place.
300 years of existence of Armenia and an entire geopolitical stratum
in the Russian-Eurasian space are coming to an end, and Yerevan is
becoming an independent international subject.
So far our country has not conducted an independent foreign policy and
has been following the Russian politics. On the international arena
we supported the decisions that favored Moscow and often were not in
line with our interests, we were friendly to those countries with
which Moscow maintained its relations. Only thanks to the Diaspora
was Armenia able to maintain minimum independence in its foreign
policy but it was equally "neutralized" by Moscow.
Now these relations are being reviewed. Evidence to this is Armenia's
disputed intention to sign the Association Agreement with the EU,
NATO-Armenia cooperation, rejection of Moscow's initiatives relating
to the Karabakh "settlement" which envisage deployment of Russian
peacekeepers in Karabakh.
The latest event was the killing of the Turkish shepherd by Russian
border guards on the Armenian border. This incident brought up one
of the key issues of sovereignty of Armenia - why the borders of
sovereign Armenia are guarded by the border guards of another country.
Why are the borders of Armenia referred to as "CIS external border"
and guarded by Russia?
There are two answers to this question. Either Russia announces
officially that it does not recognize the independence of Armenia and
considers it its "exclave" or withdraws its border guards from Armenia.
The Russian-Eurasian area has been retained by force for over 20 years
as the "successor" of the Soviet empire. However, there is nothing
that would connect the post-Soviet states except the uncurbed desire
of the Russian government to "assemble the empire". This desire
is already spilling beyond the edge - the Ukrainian fisherman who
survived a clash with the Russian coast guard motorboat tells that
the motorboat rammed the fisherman's boat three times.
The process has started, it is irreversible because it is part of a
bigger process of reformatting of the Great Near East. Unlike Armenia,
Armenia's neighbors Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan understand this. In
addition, some forces are actually acting against the sovereignty of
their own country, insisting on prolongation of Russian protectorate.
These forces are ready to support the Russian-Turkish alliance and
sale of Russian missiles to Azerbaijan but not to become an independent
subject because they are not used to independence.
The U.S. Ambassador Heffern said that Armenians are incredibly smart,
kind and diligent but they get disappointed too early. We do not like
to risk and prefer to drift behind others. Those who guide us, both in
and outside Armenia, know about our character and use it successfully.
Even now when, according to Igor Muradyan, Armenia has a real chance,
we are about to miss it, preferring dependence. Although, there are
gleams of hope. The talks of the Armenian minister with the Kurdish
government of Iraq are one of the first sovereign steps. Armenia is
growing sovereign despite Armenia's resistance.
Naira Hayrumyan 14:43 07/08/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30646
From: A. Papazian
Armenia is becoming an important pillar of reformatting in the region
of the great Near East. Real and historical events are taking place.
300 years of existence of Armenia and an entire geopolitical stratum
in the Russian-Eurasian space are coming to an end, and Yerevan is
becoming an independent international subject.
So far our country has not conducted an independent foreign policy and
has been following the Russian politics. On the international arena
we supported the decisions that favored Moscow and often were not in
line with our interests, we were friendly to those countries with
which Moscow maintained its relations. Only thanks to the Diaspora
was Armenia able to maintain minimum independence in its foreign
policy but it was equally "neutralized" by Moscow.
Now these relations are being reviewed. Evidence to this is Armenia's
disputed intention to sign the Association Agreement with the EU,
NATO-Armenia cooperation, rejection of Moscow's initiatives relating
to the Karabakh "settlement" which envisage deployment of Russian
peacekeepers in Karabakh.
The latest event was the killing of the Turkish shepherd by Russian
border guards on the Armenian border. This incident brought up one
of the key issues of sovereignty of Armenia - why the borders of
sovereign Armenia are guarded by the border guards of another country.
Why are the borders of Armenia referred to as "CIS external border"
and guarded by Russia?
There are two answers to this question. Either Russia announces
officially that it does not recognize the independence of Armenia and
considers it its "exclave" or withdraws its border guards from Armenia.
The Russian-Eurasian area has been retained by force for over 20 years
as the "successor" of the Soviet empire. However, there is nothing
that would connect the post-Soviet states except the uncurbed desire
of the Russian government to "assemble the empire". This desire
is already spilling beyond the edge - the Ukrainian fisherman who
survived a clash with the Russian coast guard motorboat tells that
the motorboat rammed the fisherman's boat three times.
The process has started, it is irreversible because it is part of a
bigger process of reformatting of the Great Near East. Unlike Armenia,
Armenia's neighbors Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan understand this. In
addition, some forces are actually acting against the sovereignty of
their own country, insisting on prolongation of Russian protectorate.
These forces are ready to support the Russian-Turkish alliance and
sale of Russian missiles to Azerbaijan but not to become an independent
subject because they are not used to independence.
The U.S. Ambassador Heffern said that Armenians are incredibly smart,
kind and diligent but they get disappointed too early. We do not like
to risk and prefer to drift behind others. Those who guide us, both in
and outside Armenia, know about our character and use it successfully.
Even now when, according to Igor Muradyan, Armenia has a real chance,
we are about to miss it, preferring dependence. Although, there are
gleams of hope. The talks of the Armenian minister with the Kurdish
government of Iraq are one of the first sovereign steps. Armenia is
growing sovereign despite Armenia's resistance.
Naira Hayrumyan 14:43 07/08/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30646
From: A. Papazian