WE WILL GET WHAT WE ARE WORTH
Hayk Aramyan

LRAGIR.AM
12:07:14 – 07/08/2009

The word "compromise" became a lifebelt for all those people, who
want to make concessions. Since these forces are the majority in the
Armenian political life, in order to differ from each other they add
different adjectives to this word: such as respectable, reasonable,
etc. An interesting situation is created when one of the forces tells
the other "my concession is more respectable than yours", another
force terrifies everyone saying, "You do not want a concession,
there will be a war", and so on.

Lately, Paruyr Hayrikyan made an honest confession about the Armenian
political field. He compared the Armenian politics and in particular,
the one concerning the Karabakhi issue with commerce and those engaged
in it with merchants. He stated that it is good that we have something
to sell- the territories. And the only problems is to sell them at good
price. And here the word "compromise" comes to help as an illusion,
self-justification, at the same time a means to seem intelligent and
concerned in front of the international and home societies.

Let alone the fact whether the merchants may bring a single example
from the world history that a conflict has ever been settled in a
reasonable or respectable way. Let us try to understand what they
give and what they take.

When an Armenian official speaks about compromises, meaning the
Karabakhi lands, it means that they do not consider Karabakh an
independent country but a part of Armenia. If the same officials
consider Karabakh an independent country, so the question occurs,
what they understand by saying compromise, whether they mean the
territories of another country or those of Armenia. Nevertheless,
it is the same for a merchant what to sell, the important is to sell
it at a good price.

If the Armenian merchants say with serious expressions on their faces,
that everyone knows that Karabakh lives with the help of the Armenian
budget and it is our army to defend it, in this case too different
questions occur, which prove the criminal idleness of the Armenian
political field. In particular, this issue has to be settled in the
way, which has adopted the Minsk group co-chairs and Turkey in the
international issues. The independence of the country is recognized,
interstate agreements are signed and the presence of the army is
legalized like all the rest of the questions. Something that has
never been done.

The Armenian merchants point out another circumstance too:
the repression of the international society, which cannot be
resisted. But let us place us instead of the international society and
see what is doing the leadership of an ancient nation: compromising,
giving. Probably, the international society trembles at seeing how the
Armenians want to give and yield. And in this case, the international
society has either to satisfy the Armenian desire or to wait hoping
that the Armenians may come to senses one day. Fortunately, they
chose the second version, though it is difficult to say how long it
will last.

In reality, you get what you want and what you are worth.