WHAT CAN THEY SAY IF THEY DON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY
S. Harutyunyan

Hayots Ashkhar Daily
06 Nov 08
Armenia

When commenting on the Moscow meeting among the Russian, Armenian
and Azerbaijani Presidents Levon Ter-Petrosyan over again affirmed
that he has lost his sense of reality.

The joint declaration displayed that LTP was sadly mistaken when he
announced in his farewell speech in October that Russia will resolutely
be withdrawn from the process of the settlement of Karabakh conflict,
that it is losing its influence on the world, on the region and on
Armenia. And that President Serge Sargsyan is responsible for that,
because he has turned his face from our friend Russia and has adopted
a criminal pro-western policy.

But Ter-Petrosyan wouldn’t be Ter-Petrosyan had he accepted his
mistake and apologized to the public for misleading the latter. Thus
loyal to the role of a fortune-teller, in this case also he appeared
as an oracle expressing an authorized opinion that the trilateral
declaration is "nothing more than the top of the iceberg and a much
more detailed protocol is hidden under it."

By envisaging the hidden part of the iceberg he hurried to record
that the conversation was about resolution 62/243 passed by the UN
General Assembly and PACE resolution 1614 "which recognize Azerbaijan’s
territorial integrity and demand an unreserved withdrawal of Armenian
forces from the Azerbaijani territories neighboring Karabakh."

Thus, saying Azerbaijan’s "territorial integrity" the first
President most probably means that Karabakh is the inseparable part
of Azerbaijan, unlike the second and the third Presidents, who have
many times openly underscored that NKR has never and will never form
part of Azerbaijan.

It’s worth mentioning that the before mentioned "problematic"
resolutions duplicate the formulations of the resolutions passed by
the UN during LTP’s years of power (1992-1994), which Azerbaijan used
to refresh from time to time.

Like someone who has made a revelation, LTP announced that as he has
already underscored many times "The idea of the "Madrid proposal"
is the synchronization of the two principles of international law:
territorial integrity and nations’ self-determination."

And of course he modestly passed round the fact that there is no word
about self-determination in his favorite "phase by phase", version of
"honorable peace".

The international community has very clearly formulated the "ideology"
of the "phase by phase" settlement, in 1997 OSCE Summit in Lisbon, by
unanimously voting for the settlement of Karabakh conflict in favor
of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, that is to say in favor of
ceding Karabakh phase by phase, which the elite belonging to Armenian
Pan National movement is trying to refuse.

Anyhow LTP doesn’t lose his hope that the monopoly of solving Karabakh
issue "belongs to the West". Moreover the Moscow meeting of the
Presidents, according to him, is only the beginning of the final
stage of the settlement, and that the West will put a full stop to
this process "in December in the United States of America".

I wonder what will he say when this balloon also blasts, when the dream
of the Armenian Pan National Movement about burying NKR independence
(thus duplicating the precedent of 1998) and takeover blows up.

Yet again he will record with disappointment that in this case as well
the criminal administration cheated the international community and
fell short of the negotiation process. Overlooking the fact that he
was the one to teach Serge Sargsyan during his last meeting, how to
cheat the West – by including NKR issue in the NA agenda and leave
it undecided, to make it a tool or a factor for neutralizing the
possible foreign pressures.