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    ARE U.S. CLAIMS TO ARMENIA POSSIBLE?
    Igor Muradyan

    Story from Lragir.am News:
    http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/comments25294.html
    Published: 14:18:31 - 29/02/2012

    It is hard not to notice the U.S. has not made any claim to Armenia for
    the period of 1995-2011 for the development of its relations with Iran.

    Americans were interested in a number of issues of the Armenian and
    Iranian relations of a particular character and solved these issues
    without any harm to Armenia. Moreover, the U.S. was also interested
    in this to some extent in connection with hopes to create arenas for
    American-Iranian contacts in the Armenian environment.

    Armenia was one of the first countries where "alternative",
    practically, unofficial contacts between the representatives of
    diplomatic and intelligence services of the U.S. and Iran were held.

    In November-December 2001, the U.S. twice tried to pressure Armenia
    for its relations with Iran. It is strange, and it does not fit into
    the U.S. regional policy. Americans has not explained the essence of
    their claims.

    The political leadership of Armenia did not retreat since retreating
    from scheduled steps in the Iranian direction, it would have been
    deprived of important levers of foreign policy. Right after the
    successful visit of R.Kocharyan to Iran, the U.S. ambassador said in
    a private meeting with Armenian experts that the Armenian leadership
    understood wrongly what the U.S. was striving for. Taking into account
    that tense relations between Azerbaijan and Iran, lack of any relations
    between Georgia and Iran satisfy the U.S., then only Armenia has not
    intervened in the U.S. policy.

    But the explanation of these attempts to make claims to Armenia means
    to aspire to consistently pursue a policy of a new "new blockade" and
    regional isolation toward Iran. If the U.S. has previously considered
    Armenia mainly in the wake of the U.S.-Russian and partly U.S.-Iranian
    relations, the new conditions of Armenia are increasingly viewed by
    the U.S. in the light of the U.S.-Turkish relations.

    It is characteristic that Americans and their European partners gave
    up raising the issue on the Meghri "corridor", stopped insisting
    on the opening of some transport directions, and apparently, are
    not interested in the construction of the Kars-Akhalkalak railway,
    since the American policy supposes for geopolitical and political
    isolation of Turkey. Great Britain considers the Iranian-Armenian
    relations exceptionally proceeding from the security tasks of energy
    communications.

    Before making claims to Armenia, the U.S. should solve the issues of
    large trade relations of Iran with Turkey, Azerbaijan and many other
    countries. Besides, it would be absurd to repress the U.S. because
    of Armenia since the Western community supports in economically and
    there is no sense to undermine its economy.


    From: Baghdasarian
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