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Recognition of Genocide Is Burden For Armenia
Armenia demonstrates amazing mastery of diplomacy - it is sitting and
doing nothing, and in the meantime others resolve Armenia's problems
for Armenia.
The French President Francois Hollande, for example, visited to Turkey
where, in fact, he raised the question of recognition of the Armenian
genocide as a condition for Turkey's rapprochement with the EU.
Official Yerevan, of course, has not commented on this important step.
Yerevan has not stated its expectations regarding the recognition of
the genocide, if it should ever happen. Does it expect financial
compensation, apology or territorial concessions to Turkey? And, in
general, the feeling is that after the transfer of sovereignty to the
Kremlin recognition of the Armenian genocide becomes a nuisance for
Armenia's foreign policy.
Yerevan has not commented on the statements by the Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani who called major Western companies Davos to invest
money in Iran.
>From Armenia nobody went to Davos. They were, apparently, afraid that
someone would ask about Armenia's opinion on the possibility of
transit of Iranian gas via its territory. Armenia has no answer to
this question because Russia's Gazprom deals with this issue and it is
unlikely to lay out a pipeline across Armenia.
In mid-February, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan is going to visit
Iran for the 12th session of the Iranian-Armenian joint
intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation. The parties are
going to discuss the implementation of projects of building a water
power plant on the Arax River and the Iran-Armenia railway. There are
no gas and transit-related issues on the agenda.
Meanwhile, the Security Conference opens in Munich where official
Yerevan will apparently be represented at a high level. This
conference will discuss important issues related to Syria and Ukraine.
The Georgian delegation, for example, has announced that it intends to
raise the issue of regional security in the Caucasus. Apparently,
again without Armenia.
A unique situation has occurred. Developments in the region that
relate to Armenia are evolving rapidly, configuration is changing,
while Yerevan is doing everything to make sure that it does not get
involved in its own foreign policy.
Naira Hayrumyan,Political Commentator
17:52 29/01/2014
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Armenia demonstrates amazing mastery of diplomacy - it is sitting and
doing nothing, and in the meantime others resolve Armenia's problems
for Armenia.
The French President Francois Hollande, for example, visited to Turkey
where, in fact, he raised the question of recognition of the Armenian
genocide as a condition for Turkey's rapprochement with the EU.
Official Yerevan, of course, has not commented on this important step.
Yerevan has not stated its expectations regarding the recognition of
the genocide, if it should ever happen. Does it expect financial
compensation, apology or territorial concessions to Turkey? And, in
general, the feeling is that after the transfer of sovereignty to the
Kremlin recognition of the Armenian genocide becomes a nuisance for
Armenia's foreign policy.
Yerevan has not commented on the statements by the Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani who called major Western companies Davos to invest
money in Iran.
>From Armenia nobody went to Davos. They were, apparently, afraid that
someone would ask about Armenia's opinion on the possibility of
transit of Iranian gas via its territory. Armenia has no answer to
this question because Russia's Gazprom deals with this issue and it is
unlikely to lay out a pipeline across Armenia.
In mid-February, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan is going to visit
Iran for the 12th session of the Iranian-Armenian joint
intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation. The parties are
going to discuss the implementation of projects of building a water
power plant on the Arax River and the Iran-Armenia railway. There are
no gas and transit-related issues on the agenda.
Meanwhile, the Security Conference opens in Munich where official
Yerevan will apparently be represented at a high level. This
conference will discuss important issues related to Syria and Ukraine.
The Georgian delegation, for example, has announced that it intends to
raise the issue of regional security in the Caucasus. Apparently,
again without Armenia.
A unique situation has occurred. Developments in the region that
relate to Armenia are evolving rapidly, configuration is changing,
while Yerevan is doing everything to make sure that it does not get
involved in its own foreign policy.
Naira Hayrumyan,Political Commentator
17:52 29/01/2014
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/31829