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HAYK KOTANJIAN REFLECTED ON ARMENIAN PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT REGARDING ILHAM ALIYEV'S ARMENOPHOBIA
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/729787/hayk-kotanjian-reflected-on-armenian-presidents-statement-regarding-ilham-aliyevs-armenophobia.html
15:04, 20 August, 2013
YEREVAN, AUGUST 20, ARMENPRESS. In his recent interview the Head
of the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the Ministry
of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, Doctor of Political Science
(RF), Counterterrorism fellow (US NDU), Full member of the Academy
of Military Sciences of the RF, Major General Hayk S.
Kotanjian touched upon the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's
statement regarding Ilham Aliyev's Armenophobia. The Institute for
National Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic
of Armenia informed "Armenpress" that the aforesaid interview runs
as follows:
-How would you assess an unprecedented public filthy language
in diplomatic practice against the senior official of the Russian
Federation, which occurred at the protocol event during the visit of
the Russian President to Baku, and the announcement of dismissal of
the Azerbaijani official?
First, I would like to mention the great interest and the traditional
professional attention of the Armenian military politicians and
political scientists for the visit of the Russian President Vladimir
Putin - a strategic ally of Armenia - to our neighboring country ahead
of presidential elections in Azerbaijan. Of course, this unprecedented
(in international political and diplomatic practice) invective on
the official guest of the Azerbaijan Republic - Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the Russian Federation - could not be ignored. Later on,
I will get back to the recent statement by the President of the
Republic of Armenia referring to the circumstances of preference for
Ilham Aliyev's re-election - to a certain extent associated with the
essence of the incident mentioned by you in respect to the Russian
senior official, who arrived to Baku for the Russian-Azerbaijani
intergovernmental negotiations.
As for the public filthy language to the Foreign Minister in the
beginning of the signing of the protocol interstate act - the bilateral
Program for the Russian-Azerbaijani cooperation in the humanitarian
sphere during the visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin -
it can be regarded as a demonstration of a cynical mockery against
generally accepted international norms of diplomatic ethics and against
the Russian state, personified in this case by Sergey Lavrov - the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Apparently,
some Azerbaijani colleagues (among the sober-minded) understood that
the demonstration of impunity in cases of such public explicit savagery
is impossible in interstate relations. With all the conventionality
of the parallel, such diplomatic licentiousness would not have been
present at one time, for example, against the ethnic Armenian Mikhail
Loris-Melikov - Earl, General and the Minister of Internal Affairs
of the Russian Empire, the President of the Supreme Administrative
Commission (Chancellor) of His Imperial Majesty Alexander II.
Of course, the dismissal of the Azerbaijani official is an
understandable step by the Azerbaijani authorities, prior to the
official apology of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan.
-How would you comment on the recent statement of the President of
the Republic of Armenia Mr. Serzh Sargsyan that Ilham Aliyev's victory
in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan is beneficial for Armenia?
-Going back to answering to your previous question, I would point
out that this unprecedented incident in the diplomatic practice
reflects the atmosphere of Armenophobia instilled in Azerbaijan
by its authorities and prevents productive cooperation between the
parties to the conflict - Azerbaijan, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
and Armenia and the co-chairmanship of the Minsk Group of the OSCE -
in the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict and establishment
of a lasting peace in the South Caucasus. One example of this was
the deportation of the Russian journalist Anna Sahakyan - an ethnic
Russian - who arrived in Baku to cover the visit of the Russian
President in Azerbaijan, and was refused permission to carry out her
professional activities only due to the fact that the Russian lady
has an Armenian name.
The setoff of these racist sentiments, accompanied by the assurances of
the Azerbaijani political propaganda about ethnic tolerance, supposedly
reigning in the Azerbaijani society, is the recent announcement by
the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan about his preference for Armenia
that the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev would be re-elected. We
should pay attention to a very important condition that statement
has in common with the incident mentioned by you in respect of the
Russian guests and emphasized by the President of Armenia in his
recent remarks. Namely, he wished to continue negotiations with the
newly re-elected President of Azerbaijan "... if Ilham Aliyev has
the will to rise above his mania of Armenophobia".
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/729787/hayk-kotanjian-reflected-on-armenian-presidents-statement-regarding-ilham-aliyevs-armenophobia.html
15:04, 20 August, 2013
YEREVAN, AUGUST 20, ARMENPRESS. In his recent interview the Head
of the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the Ministry
of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, Doctor of Political Science
(RF), Counterterrorism fellow (US NDU), Full member of the Academy
of Military Sciences of the RF, Major General Hayk S.
Kotanjian touched upon the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's
statement regarding Ilham Aliyev's Armenophobia. The Institute for
National Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic
of Armenia informed "Armenpress" that the aforesaid interview runs
as follows:
-How would you assess an unprecedented public filthy language
in diplomatic practice against the senior official of the Russian
Federation, which occurred at the protocol event during the visit of
the Russian President to Baku, and the announcement of dismissal of
the Azerbaijani official?
First, I would like to mention the great interest and the traditional
professional attention of the Armenian military politicians and
political scientists for the visit of the Russian President Vladimir
Putin - a strategic ally of Armenia - to our neighboring country ahead
of presidential elections in Azerbaijan. Of course, this unprecedented
(in international political and diplomatic practice) invective on
the official guest of the Azerbaijan Republic - Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the Russian Federation - could not be ignored. Later on,
I will get back to the recent statement by the President of the
Republic of Armenia referring to the circumstances of preference for
Ilham Aliyev's re-election - to a certain extent associated with the
essence of the incident mentioned by you in respect to the Russian
senior official, who arrived to Baku for the Russian-Azerbaijani
intergovernmental negotiations.
As for the public filthy language to the Foreign Minister in the
beginning of the signing of the protocol interstate act - the bilateral
Program for the Russian-Azerbaijani cooperation in the humanitarian
sphere during the visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin -
it can be regarded as a demonstration of a cynical mockery against
generally accepted international norms of diplomatic ethics and against
the Russian state, personified in this case by Sergey Lavrov - the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Apparently,
some Azerbaijani colleagues (among the sober-minded) understood that
the demonstration of impunity in cases of such public explicit savagery
is impossible in interstate relations. With all the conventionality
of the parallel, such diplomatic licentiousness would not have been
present at one time, for example, against the ethnic Armenian Mikhail
Loris-Melikov - Earl, General and the Minister of Internal Affairs
of the Russian Empire, the President of the Supreme Administrative
Commission (Chancellor) of His Imperial Majesty Alexander II.
Of course, the dismissal of the Azerbaijani official is an
understandable step by the Azerbaijani authorities, prior to the
official apology of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan.
-How would you comment on the recent statement of the President of
the Republic of Armenia Mr. Serzh Sargsyan that Ilham Aliyev's victory
in the presidential elections in Azerbaijan is beneficial for Armenia?
-Going back to answering to your previous question, I would point
out that this unprecedented incident in the diplomatic practice
reflects the atmosphere of Armenophobia instilled in Azerbaijan
by its authorities and prevents productive cooperation between the
parties to the conflict - Azerbaijan, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
and Armenia and the co-chairmanship of the Minsk Group of the OSCE -
in the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict and establishment
of a lasting peace in the South Caucasus. One example of this was
the deportation of the Russian journalist Anna Sahakyan - an ethnic
Russian - who arrived in Baku to cover the visit of the Russian
President in Azerbaijan, and was refused permission to carry out her
professional activities only due to the fact that the Russian lady
has an Armenian name.
The setoff of these racist sentiments, accompanied by the assurances of
the Azerbaijani political propaganda about ethnic tolerance, supposedly
reigning in the Azerbaijani society, is the recent announcement by
the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan about his preference for Armenia
that the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev would be re-elected. We
should pay attention to a very important condition that statement
has in common with the incident mentioned by you in respect of the
Russian guests and emphasized by the President of Armenia in his
recent remarks. Namely, he wished to continue negotiations with the
newly re-elected President of Azerbaijan "... if Ilham Aliyev has
the will to rise above his mania of Armenophobia".