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    RUSSIA WANTS TO LEGALIZE ITS INTERVENTION
    Naira Hayrumyan

    Lragir.am News
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics23179.html
    12:58:15 - 01/09/2011

    In his address to the heads of Armenian diplomatic missions at their
    session with the Central Staff of the MFA Serzh Sargsyan did not dwell
    on Armenia's relations with NATO and CSTO. Moreover, he did not go
    into the details of the proposal of Alexandr Lukashenko agreed with
    Medvedev about the allocation of right to CSTO forces to interfere
    with attempts of revolution in CSTO members countries.

    Moscow handles CSTO and its Rapid Reaction Forces, so it apparently
    wants to legitimize its intervention in the internal affairs of
    post-soviet countries. Until now, Russia has predominantly used
    economic and gas leverages, as well as the hierarchy of criminals
    where the "kingpin" reserves the final word, to keep these countries
    under control.

    "Illegal" intervention of Russia in Armenia's home affairs is
    nothing new. Moreover, whenever it was impossible to control the
    developments through "evolution", Russia just roughly interfered in
    Armenia's policy. It happened at the public level - just remember the
    "voluntary" signing of extension of the term of the Russian military
    base stay in August of the past year. The agreement was signed without
    any hearing at the Armenian parliament, in sepulchral silence.

    As to public debates, there is already an opinion in Armenia that
    Russia had a hand in the tragic events of October 27, 1999 and March 1,
    2008. The customers of the execution in Armenia's parliament in 1999
    have never been named, and then the U.S. Charge d'Affaires Joseph
    Pennington, according to a cable revealed on WikiLeaks, said the
    world will never learn the truth about March 1.

    The fact that on March 1 forces which are out of the control of the
    local authorities acted in Armenia was also hinted by Robert Kocharyan
    in his latest interview. He said people were mostly killed in a place
    that was "not controlled by us". It is unknown whether he had in mind
    the special services of foreign countries, particularly Russia.

    It is noteworthy that the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia has
    requested the international community to carry out a joint examination
    of videos picturing the face of the man in a Police uniform shooting
    at protesters. Armenian experts say they are unable to identify the
    man in the video. Perhaps the reason is that he is not an officer of
    the Armenian police.

    Now Russia needs a legal permit for intervention. Perhaps, it is
    related to the anti-Russian sentiment in all the CSTO countries,
    particularly in Armenia. After the signing of the extension of term
    of deployment of the Russia bases in Armenia, open appeals to pass to
    equal terms in Armenia's relationship with Russia have been voiced in
    Armenia. The initiative to open Russian language-schools failed too,
    the program "Russian cooperation" which transferred Armenian families
    to Russia as "labor force" was suddenly closed down too.

    Against this background, it is clear that any discussion about
    delegating the authority of "royal gendarmes" to the CSTO forces
    will cause a wave of protests in Armenia, let alone Serzh Sargsyan's
    agreement to this proposal.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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