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Naira Hayrumyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28711
Comments - Thursday, 24 January 2013, 13:22
The UK Ambassador's blog on the Armenian elections has caused
controversial reactions. Several questions occurred. Does a foreign
country have the right to interfere with Armenia's internal affairs?
In her response to this "accusation" Madam Ambassador refers to
Serzh Sargsyan's statement that Armenia is part of the international
community which must consider Armenia one of them. "This puts it
very well," Mrs. Leach wrote, thus reserving the right to speak
about the elections in Armenia. Were there not for the etiquette,
the ambassador would hint to Armenia that its president, speaker and
prime minister have welcomed the "more for more" principle proposed by
the EU. This is a degrading principle which has an obscene definition
in everyday life but Armenia has approved it. One should have spoken
about national dignity and sovereign rights when this principle was
proposed, not now. Do we agree with the ambassador who states that
over a decade Armenian elections have been badly marred by fraud?
In her response the ambassador did not dismiss her words that all the
elections have been falsified. In fact, she announces on behalf of
the international community that power has been usurped for fraud is a
civil form of usurpation. Either Armenia admits that power was usurped
for 20 years or sues the UK ambassador. But who will sue her knowing
that the ambassador can prove her words in a second? Information on
fraud came through both official and unofficial channels. This is not
the problem. The problem is that we have been living in a fake system
for 20 years and have done nothing to defeat it. For the first time
in Armenia one of the candidates announced that elections are fake,
that there is someone specific to blame for making us part of this
performance every time which results in another period of usurpation
of power. However, we are ready to become extras who get 5000 drams
per day of shooting. It means that Madam Ambassador is not right. If
fraud is agreed with the society, it is not fraud but plot. What will
the reaction of the West to the Armenian election be? Mrs. Leach's
tough statements in her blog indicate that the West will not legitimize
usurpation of power this time. Of course, not because this time they
are concerned about the destiny of Armenia. First, Serzh Sargsyan
was unable to persuade the West of the government's sincerity to
diversity its foreign policy and end its dependence on Russia.
Second, not recognizing Serzh Sargsyan's legitimacy the West will
maintain levers of influence on him. It is not important how it will
end up for Serzh Sargsyan but it will end up badly for Armenia. Serzh
Sargsyan pulls the string too hard and if he lets it do, it will toss
us back to the post-Soviet past with such a force that we will hardly
survive the fall. Of course, pro-government authors and mass media
have not fine tuned to the West yet but there is already a breakthrough
in the public consciousness so it will be painful to return.
Naira Hayrumyan
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/comments/view/28711
Comments - Thursday, 24 January 2013, 13:22
The UK Ambassador's blog on the Armenian elections has caused
controversial reactions. Several questions occurred. Does a foreign
country have the right to interfere with Armenia's internal affairs?
In her response to this "accusation" Madam Ambassador refers to
Serzh Sargsyan's statement that Armenia is part of the international
community which must consider Armenia one of them. "This puts it
very well," Mrs. Leach wrote, thus reserving the right to speak
about the elections in Armenia. Were there not for the etiquette,
the ambassador would hint to Armenia that its president, speaker and
prime minister have welcomed the "more for more" principle proposed by
the EU. This is a degrading principle which has an obscene definition
in everyday life but Armenia has approved it. One should have spoken
about national dignity and sovereign rights when this principle was
proposed, not now. Do we agree with the ambassador who states that
over a decade Armenian elections have been badly marred by fraud?
In her response the ambassador did not dismiss her words that all the
elections have been falsified. In fact, she announces on behalf of
the international community that power has been usurped for fraud is a
civil form of usurpation. Either Armenia admits that power was usurped
for 20 years or sues the UK ambassador. But who will sue her knowing
that the ambassador can prove her words in a second? Information on
fraud came through both official and unofficial channels. This is not
the problem. The problem is that we have been living in a fake system
for 20 years and have done nothing to defeat it. For the first time
in Armenia one of the candidates announced that elections are fake,
that there is someone specific to blame for making us part of this
performance every time which results in another period of usurpation
of power. However, we are ready to become extras who get 5000 drams
per day of shooting. It means that Madam Ambassador is not right. If
fraud is agreed with the society, it is not fraud but plot. What will
the reaction of the West to the Armenian election be? Mrs. Leach's
tough statements in her blog indicate that the West will not legitimize
usurpation of power this time. Of course, not because this time they
are concerned about the destiny of Armenia. First, Serzh Sargsyan
was unable to persuade the West of the government's sincerity to
diversity its foreign policy and end its dependence on Russia.
Second, not recognizing Serzh Sargsyan's legitimacy the West will
maintain levers of influence on him. It is not important how it will
end up for Serzh Sargsyan but it will end up badly for Armenia. Serzh
Sargsyan pulls the string too hard and if he lets it do, it will toss
us back to the post-Soviet past with such a force that we will hardly
survive the fall. Of course, pro-government authors and mass media
have not fine tuned to the West yet but there is already a breakthrough
in the public consciousness so it will be painful to return.