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THE ARMENIAN AGENDA
`Aravot'
September 5, 2009
Yerevan
1. The Patrimony is one and indivisible.
2. The sovereign Nation-State declared in one corner of the ancestral
homeland recognizes republican Turkey and its integrity subject to
Woodrow Wilson's arbitral award as issued under U.S. presidential seal
in November 1920. A full and final regulation of all bilateral matters
deriving therefrom is a material precondition to an equitable and
enduring resolution in the case of Artsakh and Armenian-Azerbaijani
relations in general. There is no statute on limitations on the crime
of Genocide, however and whenever defined.
3. The nation-state recognizes republican Azerbaijan and its integrity
subject to its own recognition of the Republic of Mountainous
Karabagh, as constitutionally constituted, as well as release from
occupation of the historic heartlands of Shahumian, Getashen, and
Nakhichevan. No other territorial adjustment shall be considered or
executed until the foregoing takes complete effect.
4. The nation-state recognizes republican Georgia and its integrity
subject to its own acknowledgment that Javakhk is part and parcel of
the patrimony and of their common security. The character of the
reciprocal relationship, moreover, will turn on the efficacy of
measures undertaken to demonstrate this understanding as well as to
ensure fundamental freedoms for the Georgian-Armenian community and
its institutions.
5. The nation-state respects the partnership of Iran, Russia, China,
the European Union and the United States, and expects their respect
for its absolute sovereignty and the rightful integrity of its
heritage.
6. The nation-state, at Ararat and in dispersion, further recognizes
that the bedrock of the points above and below is its own immediate
and comprehensive transformation into a modern democratic Republic
where the law rules, rights are revered, and citizen is crown. Justice
in the world entails justice at home.
7. In direct consequence and for the sake of generations to come, the
nation-state notes with gratitude the services rendered by all of its
presidents, civil and military officials, and rank-and-file patriots,
and at once requires each of them to stand equally before the rule of
law. The territories, properties, enterprises, opportunities, and
human lives heretofore privatized, expropriated, or sacrificed by
their abuse of power must be accounted for to the fullest extent of
the very same law.
8. For the first time in their long history, Armenia and its people
must urgently conduct true elections for their presidency, legislature
and, by extension, judiciary. Failing this, there is no national
agenda, nor a manifest destiny, and so their birthright has already
been squandered for good.
9. The nation-state, its every citizen, and no one else are
responsible, without excuse or exception, for the burdens and
blessings of their collective future.
Citizen H
2 September 2009
Erevan
`Aravot'
September 5, 2009
Yerevan
1. The Patrimony is one and indivisible.
2. The sovereign Nation-State declared in one corner of the ancestral
homeland recognizes republican Turkey and its integrity subject to
Woodrow Wilson's arbitral award as issued under U.S. presidential seal
in November 1920. A full and final regulation of all bilateral matters
deriving therefrom is a material precondition to an equitable and
enduring resolution in the case of Artsakh and Armenian-Azerbaijani
relations in general. There is no statute on limitations on the crime
of Genocide, however and whenever defined.
3. The nation-state recognizes republican Azerbaijan and its integrity
subject to its own recognition of the Republic of Mountainous
Karabagh, as constitutionally constituted, as well as release from
occupation of the historic heartlands of Shahumian, Getashen, and
Nakhichevan. No other territorial adjustment shall be considered or
executed until the foregoing takes complete effect.
4. The nation-state recognizes republican Georgia and its integrity
subject to its own acknowledgment that Javakhk is part and parcel of
the patrimony and of their common security. The character of the
reciprocal relationship, moreover, will turn on the efficacy of
measures undertaken to demonstrate this understanding as well as to
ensure fundamental freedoms for the Georgian-Armenian community and
its institutions.
5. The nation-state respects the partnership of Iran, Russia, China,
the European Union and the United States, and expects their respect
for its absolute sovereignty and the rightful integrity of its
heritage.
6. The nation-state, at Ararat and in dispersion, further recognizes
that the bedrock of the points above and below is its own immediate
and comprehensive transformation into a modern democratic Republic
where the law rules, rights are revered, and citizen is crown. Justice
in the world entails justice at home.
7. In direct consequence and for the sake of generations to come, the
nation-state notes with gratitude the services rendered by all of its
presidents, civil and military officials, and rank-and-file patriots,
and at once requires each of them to stand equally before the rule of
law. The territories, properties, enterprises, opportunities, and
human lives heretofore privatized, expropriated, or sacrificed by
their abuse of power must be accounted for to the fullest extent of
the very same law.
8. For the first time in their long history, Armenia and its people
must urgently conduct true elections for their presidency, legislature
and, by extension, judiciary. Failing this, there is no national
agenda, nor a manifest destiny, and so their birthright has already
been squandered for good.
9. The nation-state, its every citizen, and no one else are
responsible, without excuse or exception, for the burdens and
blessings of their collective future.
Citizen H
2 September 2009
Erevan