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    Armenia's Borders Were Defined In Minsk

    Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator
    Comments - 11 October 2014, 12:33


    The president of Kazakhstan has announced that a compromise over the
    borders of Armenia upon membership of Armenia to the Customs Union is
    in place.

    It is not known what compromise has been reached, among whom, what the
    subject matter of the compromise is. Is the compromise over
    recognition of Armenia's borders or on some other issue that has
    nothing to do with Armenia? For example, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan may
    have agreed afterwards to withdraw the issue of borders of Armenia
    upon membership.

    Perhaps, it is not realistic to expect that the Armenian government
    will explain the compromise. It is possible that the Armenian
    government is not aware or has not been informed about the compromise
    yet. After all, the issue of Armenia's borders upon membership or the
    so-called issue of setting up customs on the border of Artsakh was a
    subject matter of deals among Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and
    Azerbaijan.

    For example, it should not be ruled out that the compromise was over
    the borders of Armenia for a new partnership agreement between the EU
    and Kazakhstan in which Nazarbayev underscores the inclusion of the
    security component, which is a new thing in the prospect of relations
    between Kazakhstan and the North Atlantic community. In addition,
    Nazarbayev declares about it through a visit to Brussels and
    publication of an article in the authoritative American magazine on
    the eve of the Minsk summit.

    In any case, the issue is definitely the customs. And the result of
    the compromise is that customs are not insisted at this stage.
    However, the agreement is obviously an oral one, in other words, this
    issue is not established by a clause in the treaty. And the issue of
    customs on the Armenia-Artsakh border may again come up some time in
    the future.

    At the same time, it is possible that Armenia was given time to
    resolve the customs issue, i.e. "prepare the public". It is possible,
    like the U-turn from European integration to Eurasian vassal was
    possible. With such political system and arrangement as in Armenia
    everything is possible. It is a matter of rhetoric to declare that the
    customs on the border of Artsakh is irreversible. The expert community
    adjunct to Gazprom will be helpful which has already started
    explaining how important an attribute the customs will be for the
    independence of Artsakh.

    Moreover, the customs could be declared the founding customs of the
    independence of Artsakh while the referendum on the independence of
    Artsakh will be an unrecognized spasm.

    At present, this may seem an irrelevant exaggeration but what is
    happening in Armenia today, both inside and around Armenia, after the
    victory in the war of Artsakh, would appear not only as an
    exaggeration but also the product of imagination, something incredible
    and fantastic. However, 20 years later this is reality, and the
    president of some country announces that they have reached a
    compromise over the borders of Armenia.

    And what is a state border. The state border is the independence and
    sovereignty of the state. In other words, it is a subject of
    compromise. In other words, Armenia is slowly getting closer to the
    status of unrecognized state as the borders of this country are
    gradually becoming a subject of compromise.

    It is interesting whether there was a similar compromise on the
    Russian border, namely Crimea. Not, of course, because issues in the
    Eurasian Union are brought up selectively, based on the weak link. And
    the weak link is Armenia.

    But there is one but. The Eurasian Union itself is a weak link and
    will definitely crack even if the government and non-government siege
    Armenia. And Armenia will overcome the siege but after having lost a
    lot of time. Though the loss of Armenia would be the least of all
    troubles.

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