GO, KARABAKH!
Yeghisheh Metsarents

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15:19:09 – 20/08/2009

Almost all political, scholarly and other judgments on the Karabakh
settlement often miss perhaps the most crucial, central and
significant factor of the resolution – the human factor, life with
all its aspects. Meanwhile, events take place and there are phenomena
in this sphere, which display a lot to the international community
and thereby condition the stance of the "international community"
regarding the settlement of the Karabakh issue.

The basketball team of Stepanakert had arrived in Armenia to
participate in the pan-Armenian games. The city hall of Stepanakert
had assured to supply the team with necessary equipment. The city
hall did not keep its promise. Moreover, the team left Yerevan long
before the end of the games, perhaps for economy.

It is notable in this economy context that the president of Karabakh
Bako Sahakyan has gone on holiday abroad, in a resort which is no way
cheap. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan calls the Armenians
to travel to Karabakh. This is by the way.

The main problem is that on the human level Karabakh appears or is
set to appear as an enterprise rather than a state, and the head
of the enterprise cannot spend his vacation inside the office of
the enterprise, therefore he leaves to rest from the routine of
the enterprise.

In the meantime, the international community is demanded to recognize
the independence of Karabakh or to treat Karabakh as an established
state and accept it back to the table of the talks. An established
state is not bridges decorated with flowers, nor is the terms
president, member of parliament, government, minister, army or
Constitution. And there is no need to reproach Bryza or others for
not treating Karabakh the way it wants to be treated. It is necessary
that they be the first to treat Karabakh the way Karabakh would wish,
and afterwards demand from others. Moreover, in that case perhaps
there would be no need to demand from others because even though
others are guided by geopolitical interests, they nevertheless take
into account the fact, accept what is there.