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ILLUSIONS OF ARMENIAN POLITICIANS
According to the Golos Armeniy, the U.S. Secretary of State Kerry
made a special statement on the 18th anniversary of the genocide
in Srebrenica.
"On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I join the
people of Bosnia and Herzegovina today in honoring the memory of
those lost in the horrific act of genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995,
which stole the lives of over 8,000 innocent people. As we know from
history, truth and reconciliation are essential to moving beyond the
past towards a better tomorrow.
We applaud those who continue to seek justice for the victims
and work to ensure that all citizens have the right to return and
to live peacefully in their pre-war homes. We reject efforts to
rewrite or manipulate history, deny the genocide, or negate Bosnia
and Herzegovina's multi-ethnic character. We must always challenge
falsehood, we must combat it, and we must counter it with truth,
wisdom, and compassion."
This statement sounds more than cynical since the United States
has refused to recognize the genocide of Armenians. No doubt their
"refusal" allowed ignoring the interests of Armenia by some other
states, including Russia.
All the state secretaries and other high-ranking U.S. government
officials have spoken up about genocides in different countries and
regions over the past two decades. In other words, genocides elsewhere
have been recognized except the genocide of Armenians in Turkey. At
the same time, the leadership and politicians of the countries that
underwent genocide officially put forth this issue in their foreign
affairs. For whatever reason, Armenia is an exception. At best,
it will thank for a relevant decision.
The primary and key issue that the Armenian government and official
representatives must put forth in negotiations and relations with the
United States is the issue of the genocide. This has never been done
before, at least publicly. The second issue should have been supply
of arms.
Why is it so? There can be only one explanation. The Armenian
politicians are still trying to exchange silence on genocide in
official talks with their personal image. This is so stupid and
meaningless that it is hard to believe that such motivation could
exist.
Similarly, for a long time the Armenian government preferred not
to raise the issue of military cooperation and supply of arms to
Azerbaijan with Russia (as well as the existence of the Armenian
issue in the talks between Russia and Turkey).
At present, a question occurs which the Armenian politicians and
commentators are not ready to answer. Would it be possible to avoid
currently obvious deterioration of Armenian-Russian relations? We
think that it would be possible to avoid deadlock, particularly by
way of consistent relations with Russia regarding supply of weapons
to Azerbaijan (at least).
These issues have been brought up by the Armenian government
immediately after Moscow found out that it can conduct its policy of
military trade. It was not too late even in 2010. However, the Armenian
government was highly vulnerable and could not afford avoiding risks
that, according to Armenian politicians, would occur in this case.
Real risks occurred now that Armenia has been unable to prevent supply
of modern Russian weapon to Azerbaijan. There were political resources
for that. Now there is only one thing - fast integration with the EU
and NATO and receiving necessary armaments from the countries of the
West. This decision was made in mid-2012, and it will be necessary to
develop these relations which will soon become more interesting. In
addition, the motives are obvious.
One would like to hope that in building relations with the
Euro-Atlantic community Armenia will use its experience of relations
with Russia. Despite Turkey's efforts to lay claims on development of
relations between Armenia and NATO it will have no formal levers of
influence on NATO member states because the alliance cannot interfere
with export and import of armaments. The European Union has the right
to influence and control military supplies of member states but Turkey
is not an EU member.
Ostensibly, the issues of supply of arms to Armenia by the states of
the West have been worked out in a multifaceted way. However, there
may be problems as well therefore there is no need to be hypocritically
modest - this time the image of politicians will not improve.
Igor Muradyan 22:13 11/07/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30439
According to the Golos Armeniy, the U.S. Secretary of State Kerry
made a special statement on the 18th anniversary of the genocide
in Srebrenica.
"On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I join the
people of Bosnia and Herzegovina today in honoring the memory of
those lost in the horrific act of genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995,
which stole the lives of over 8,000 innocent people. As we know from
history, truth and reconciliation are essential to moving beyond the
past towards a better tomorrow.
We applaud those who continue to seek justice for the victims
and work to ensure that all citizens have the right to return and
to live peacefully in their pre-war homes. We reject efforts to
rewrite or manipulate history, deny the genocide, or negate Bosnia
and Herzegovina's multi-ethnic character. We must always challenge
falsehood, we must combat it, and we must counter it with truth,
wisdom, and compassion."
This statement sounds more than cynical since the United States
has refused to recognize the genocide of Armenians. No doubt their
"refusal" allowed ignoring the interests of Armenia by some other
states, including Russia.
All the state secretaries and other high-ranking U.S. government
officials have spoken up about genocides in different countries and
regions over the past two decades. In other words, genocides elsewhere
have been recognized except the genocide of Armenians in Turkey. At
the same time, the leadership and politicians of the countries that
underwent genocide officially put forth this issue in their foreign
affairs. For whatever reason, Armenia is an exception. At best,
it will thank for a relevant decision.
The primary and key issue that the Armenian government and official
representatives must put forth in negotiations and relations with the
United States is the issue of the genocide. This has never been done
before, at least publicly. The second issue should have been supply
of arms.
Why is it so? There can be only one explanation. The Armenian
politicians are still trying to exchange silence on genocide in
official talks with their personal image. This is so stupid and
meaningless that it is hard to believe that such motivation could
exist.
Similarly, for a long time the Armenian government preferred not
to raise the issue of military cooperation and supply of arms to
Azerbaijan with Russia (as well as the existence of the Armenian
issue in the talks between Russia and Turkey).
At present, a question occurs which the Armenian politicians and
commentators are not ready to answer. Would it be possible to avoid
currently obvious deterioration of Armenian-Russian relations? We
think that it would be possible to avoid deadlock, particularly by
way of consistent relations with Russia regarding supply of weapons
to Azerbaijan (at least).
These issues have been brought up by the Armenian government
immediately after Moscow found out that it can conduct its policy of
military trade. It was not too late even in 2010. However, the Armenian
government was highly vulnerable and could not afford avoiding risks
that, according to Armenian politicians, would occur in this case.
Real risks occurred now that Armenia has been unable to prevent supply
of modern Russian weapon to Azerbaijan. There were political resources
for that. Now there is only one thing - fast integration with the EU
and NATO and receiving necessary armaments from the countries of the
West. This decision was made in mid-2012, and it will be necessary to
develop these relations which will soon become more interesting. In
addition, the motives are obvious.
One would like to hope that in building relations with the
Euro-Atlantic community Armenia will use its experience of relations
with Russia. Despite Turkey's efforts to lay claims on development of
relations between Armenia and NATO it will have no formal levers of
influence on NATO member states because the alliance cannot interfere
with export and import of armaments. The European Union has the right
to influence and control military supplies of member states but Turkey
is not an EU member.
Ostensibly, the issues of supply of arms to Armenia by the states of
the West have been worked out in a multifaceted way. However, there
may be problems as well therefore there is no need to be hypocritically
modest - this time the image of politicians will not improve.
Igor Muradyan 22:13 11/07/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/30439