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Regnum news agency, Russia
Nov 25 2010
Armenian diaspora mobilizes for potential war with Azerbaijan
25 November: Against the background of intensive negotiations on
settling the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict and the forthcoming discussion
at the OSCE summit in Astana of provisions of the so-called Madrid
document, which envisages withdrawal of Armenian troops from the
contact line in the conflict zone, coordination centres of the
Armenian diaspora in various countries have effectively began
preparing for a new war.
Major businessmen of Armenian descent from four countries - Russia,
France, the USA and Uruguay - set up coordination centres to gather
reservists and veterans, according to information that Regnum agency
has received. If military operations are resumed, they are to be
deployed in the conflict zone through Iran's air space.
Russia leaders, former agents join
A big Russian businessman of Armenian origin, who is one of the men
who initiated the Preventive Mobilization programme, told Regnum on
the condition of anonymity that work is under way within the framework
of the Alliance of Armenian Reservists and Veterans international
Armenian public movement. Information is gathered in one database in
three languages, i.e. Russian, English and Spanish, he said. Activists
of the mobilization movement believe that up to 200,000 Armenians from
38 countries may join it.
"The Armenians of Russia act as the leader of the pan-Armenian
iniatives despite all organizational and content-related shortcomings.
There are many reasons for this, including the presence of the largest
Armenian diaspora (2.5m people), its intellectual, material and
organizational potential, the migration processes in recent decades in
the CIS countries and, undoubtedly, the strategic alliance of Russia
and Armenia," the source said. He also added that the
"information-analytical backbone" of the mobilization reserve of the
Armenian diaspora has already been formed from a number of former and
acting special agents of several powerful countries. "They are
processing information of the common database and analyze not only
possible scenarios of the course of events, but also scrutinize the
identities of everyone joining the 'Armenian diaspora army' to prevent
the infiltration of enemies and spies into our camp," the source told
Regnum.
All means good enough for war
When asked which methods the diaspora will employ should the war erupt
in the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict zone, the source said: "The war is
at the gates! And all means are good enough for war. I do not say that
we will practice Usamah Bin Ladin's methods. No! We will act openly
and more severely. At present it is quite obvious that Karabakh is in
danger. If there is no Karabakh, there will be no Armenia. And if
there is no Armenia, there will be no Armenians. The nation is in
danger and every Armenian who enlists in the reserve, no matter where
he lives - from Iran to [Georgia's breakaway region of] Abkhazia to
Javakhk [Georgia's Samtskhe-Javakheti Region], from Ukraine and
Bulgaria to the USA and Argentina, realizes this. You would not
believe it, but even non-Armenians who believe that our cause is right
are enlisting. The most anti-Turkish peoples - Serbians, Bulgarians
and even Italians - are the most active in this sense. As ex-president
Robert Kocharyan used to say, Armenia with diaspora and without it is
in different leagues. We will show Azerbaijan our real weight and
power, so that it will stop relying on its oil. On the other hand, we
will prove the deficiencies and the injustice of the opportunism of
those international powers and transnational corporations that fail to
realize the danger of the current situation. Gambling on oil and gas,
lobbying their projects for the extraction and transit of
hydrocarbons, they are ignoring the self-determination right of the
people of Nagornyy Karabakh, pile pressure on Armenia and the Armenian
people. Well then, the cornered people are ready to demonstrate that
there is a commodity dearer than oil and gas. And the name of this
commodity is the people's will," the Russian businessman said.
In response to a question "does the Armenian state and authorities
support this endeavour", he said: "In this part I will not be opening
the paranthesis for the time being. It will all become clearer after
Astana".
[translated from Russian]
From: A. Papazian
Nov 25 2010
Armenian diaspora mobilizes for potential war with Azerbaijan
25 November: Against the background of intensive negotiations on
settling the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict and the forthcoming discussion
at the OSCE summit in Astana of provisions of the so-called Madrid
document, which envisages withdrawal of Armenian troops from the
contact line in the conflict zone, coordination centres of the
Armenian diaspora in various countries have effectively began
preparing for a new war.
Major businessmen of Armenian descent from four countries - Russia,
France, the USA and Uruguay - set up coordination centres to gather
reservists and veterans, according to information that Regnum agency
has received. If military operations are resumed, they are to be
deployed in the conflict zone through Iran's air space.
Russia leaders, former agents join
A big Russian businessman of Armenian origin, who is one of the men
who initiated the Preventive Mobilization programme, told Regnum on
the condition of anonymity that work is under way within the framework
of the Alliance of Armenian Reservists and Veterans international
Armenian public movement. Information is gathered in one database in
three languages, i.e. Russian, English and Spanish, he said. Activists
of the mobilization movement believe that up to 200,000 Armenians from
38 countries may join it.
"The Armenians of Russia act as the leader of the pan-Armenian
iniatives despite all organizational and content-related shortcomings.
There are many reasons for this, including the presence of the largest
Armenian diaspora (2.5m people), its intellectual, material and
organizational potential, the migration processes in recent decades in
the CIS countries and, undoubtedly, the strategic alliance of Russia
and Armenia," the source said. He also added that the
"information-analytical backbone" of the mobilization reserve of the
Armenian diaspora has already been formed from a number of former and
acting special agents of several powerful countries. "They are
processing information of the common database and analyze not only
possible scenarios of the course of events, but also scrutinize the
identities of everyone joining the 'Armenian diaspora army' to prevent
the infiltration of enemies and spies into our camp," the source told
Regnum.
All means good enough for war
When asked which methods the diaspora will employ should the war erupt
in the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict zone, the source said: "The war is
at the gates! And all means are good enough for war. I do not say that
we will practice Usamah Bin Ladin's methods. No! We will act openly
and more severely. At present it is quite obvious that Karabakh is in
danger. If there is no Karabakh, there will be no Armenia. And if
there is no Armenia, there will be no Armenians. The nation is in
danger and every Armenian who enlists in the reserve, no matter where
he lives - from Iran to [Georgia's breakaway region of] Abkhazia to
Javakhk [Georgia's Samtskhe-Javakheti Region], from Ukraine and
Bulgaria to the USA and Argentina, realizes this. You would not
believe it, but even non-Armenians who believe that our cause is right
are enlisting. The most anti-Turkish peoples - Serbians, Bulgarians
and even Italians - are the most active in this sense. As ex-president
Robert Kocharyan used to say, Armenia with diaspora and without it is
in different leagues. We will show Azerbaijan our real weight and
power, so that it will stop relying on its oil. On the other hand, we
will prove the deficiencies and the injustice of the opportunism of
those international powers and transnational corporations that fail to
realize the danger of the current situation. Gambling on oil and gas,
lobbying their projects for the extraction and transit of
hydrocarbons, they are ignoring the self-determination right of the
people of Nagornyy Karabakh, pile pressure on Armenia and the Armenian
people. Well then, the cornered people are ready to demonstrate that
there is a commodity dearer than oil and gas. And the name of this
commodity is the people's will," the Russian businessman said.
In response to a question "does the Armenian state and authorities
support this endeavour", he said: "In this part I will not be opening
the paranthesis for the time being. It will all become clearer after
Astana".
[translated from Russian]
From: A. Papazian