TURKEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE BIGGEST DANGER FOR ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.07.2007 14:24 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "At the moment Turkey’s foreign policy is targeted at
Northern Iraq and improvement of relations with Georgia and Azerbaijan,
what includes development of communications and military-strategic
partnership," Professor of international relations and politics of the
Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires, Dr Khachik Ter-Ghukassian
said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net.

If Turkey’s succeeds in realizing its plans Armenia will be isolated
from the world, according to him.

"Curiously enough, such state of things is not convenient
for the U.S. which insists on opening of the Armenian-Turkish
border. However, normalization of relations without preconditions
is a dangerous tendency. Turkey doesn’t open the border proceeding
from political reasons: the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, the Armenian
Genocide and absence of fixed border with Armenia. The only legal
basis for demarcation of borders is the Sevr Treaty. No agreement
signed after Sevr, namely the Kars and Moscow treaties, do not have
juridical effect, since the signatory powers stopped their existence as
elements of international law. The Sevr Treaty was signed August 10,
1920. Borders with independent Armenia had to be marked by a neutral
mediator, namely the United States, according to it," he said.

"At that we should not forget that Turkey has always been the biggest
danger for the Armenian people. This opinion should be shared by
the whole nation, both in Armenia and Diaspora. On the other hand,
opening of borders can tell on Armenia’s economy. Georgia, where the
local industry was destroyed because of the abundant flow of cheap
Turkish goods, can serve as an example. Certainly, Armenian economy
can’t compete with the Turkish, but we will have an outlet to the
world, at least. Although, we are not ready to make a reality of the
scenario we will be offered," he said.