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    JOKING TIME OR SERIOUS JOKES
    Hakob Badalyan

    http://www.lragir.am/src/index.php?id=co mments&pid=15028
    11:48:12 - 01/09/2009

    When Robert Kocharyan, after leaving his office, was speaking about
    politics in his interviews, a statement of his remained known: he
    said that in case he was the president, Abdullah Gul would not come
    to Armenia. This statement is worth remembering because it was made
    on the days when Serge Sargsyan had just invited Gul to watch football
    and everyone was waiting to see what Gul was going to answer.

    On August 31, 2009, Robert Kocharyan celebrated the 55 anniversary of
    his birthday. Serge Sargsyan has even called him. He did not visit
    him but only called, the reason of which became known later. The
    point is that the present, which Serge Sargsyan had prepared for
    Robert Kocharyan, was not ready yet. The "present" was ready later
    and appeared on the web site of the Armenian Foreign Ministry later in
    the night on august 31. Those were two protocols on the Armenian and
    Turkish relations; one was on the development of bilateral relations
    and the second one on the establishment of diplomatic relations.

    Are these two protocols, which are going to be fulfilled after six
    weeks, not a present for Robert Kocharyan, who was against Gul's visit
    to Armenia? It is a present, and if Robert Kocharyan does not "thank"
    for it now, later it will be impossible for him to say anything in
    this connection. The point is that Robert Kocharyan's phrase that
    in case of his tenure, Gul's visit to Armenia would be impossible is
    won by Serge Sargsyan's "work", who not only invited Gul, but now he
    shows with the help of the very protocols that he managed to force
    to open the border and to establish diplomatic relations.

    Who is more right from the point of the country's interests? Of
    course, Serge Sargsyan, who invited Gul, or maybe Robert Kocharyan
    who is against these events foreseeing some conspiracy? The far
    quarrel of the second and the third presidents assumes an interesting
    intrigue. But we should not forget about the first president, who is
    the leader of the opposition. The point is that with the help of his
    steps and speeches he is able to attach some legitimacy to the second
    or the third presidents. What the first president is going to do is
    difficult to say. His birthday is in January. Much will change by
    that time. So, we do not have to expect the first president to hurry,
    because the "present" was not given to him. His present had been given
    before, when Serge Sargsyan appropriated the approaches of the first
    president in the foreign policy. Interestingly, a particular situation
    is shaped in the Armenian political field thanks to the developments
    in the Armenian and Turkish relations. This is the first time, when
    Robert Kocharyan and Serge Sargsyan do not need each other's help
    in struggling against Levon Ter-Petrosyan, but each of them would
    be glad for the other to struggle against him alone. This situation
    changes the whole logic of the home political developments, forcing
    the participants to change their behavior as well.

    >>From this point of view, one of Levon Ter-Petrosyan's press
    conferences a couple of months ago is interesting, when I asked him,
    whether he considers Robert Kocharyan a political rival for him. Levon
    Ter-Petrosyan answered that until Robert Kocharyan is not in politics
    and no one knows where he is, he cannot be a rival for him. This was
    Levon Ter-Petrosyan's answer which he continued saying that when he
    is in politics they may be not rivals but colleagues, as everything
    is possible in politics. A political figure of his range would hardly
    joke during press conferences without thinking. Moreover, the political
    figures often joke about the ideas, which are hard to be perceived
    at that certain moment. Time will show. And in the present situation
    it is very difficult to say whether the time is joking or rendering
    the others' jokes serious.

    In any case, the situation forces the politics in Armenia to be
    realistic and not mythological. And this is a essential process.
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