MERRY-GO-ROUND GOES ROUND SPINNING THE HEAD OF THE SOCIETY HAKOB BADALYAN
12:00:50 – 08/05/2009
LRAGIR.AM
The fuss kicked up over the meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents got its response from which it is impossible to understand
anything definite. After the forth meeting between Sargsyan and
Aliyev, the society knows as much as it knew after the fist, the
second or the third one, as much as it knows after the sixth meeting
between Sargsyan and Aliyev and probably as much as it will know after
their ninth meeting.
Was all this predictable? Probably, it was not, though crucial
observations were heard before the meeting in Prague, the Armenian and
Azerbaijani foreign minister were invited to Washington and got
instructions from Hillary Clinton, earlier, they went to Moscow one
after the other, some overturn was happening in the Armenian and
Turkish relations which was a signal for another turnover in the
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, because the normalization of
the Armenian and Turkish relations without the settlement of the
Armenian and Azerbaijani conflict becomes senseless.
All the excitement before the meeting in Prague seemed to hint that
something decisive was going to happen there, that Aliyev and Sargsyan
were going to come to some agreement which would be also testified by
a document. The Co-Chairs, who again issue optimistic statements after
the meeting, cannot state anything because in this case they would
prove the ineffectiveness of their own work. All this reminds the
carousel going round which already starts to `scratch’ and disturb the
society.
The impression is created that they impede the society from thinking
about both the Armenian and Turkish relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. Some artificial dynamism is present in these processes which
creates the impression of much fuss and makes the society wait with
bated breath to see what is going to happen in afterwards. And every
time the society sees that nothing is happening and everything is
going around its axes and here creates some feeling of dejavu. But all
this keeps the public in tension. To say that this tension has no
sense and there is no need to think about the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict would probably be wrong, but it is as much wrong to follow
this imitation of fatalism so selflessly and without paying attention
to the questions by which the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement is
determined in reality.
And, those questions which are needed for the effectiveness of the
negotiations are not in Prague, Washington or Saint Petersburg, but in
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh- in Yerevan, Gyumri, Kapan, Stepanakert,
Hadrut Martakert and in the far villages and in the released
areas. Here is where the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is settled, here is
where we will fail or succeed and not around the negotiation
tables. The society should pay attention to those questions which are
needed to be solved in order to normalize our home life.