WHICH SON, OR WHICH FATHER
Hakob Badalyan

Lragir.am
17/11/09

During his visit to the U.S., the Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan meeting with the Armenian students studying in America stated
that Armenia is ready for economic relations with Turkey and has
necessary measures to eliminate possible dangers. The prime minister
stated that a strong wave cannot come and destroy Armenia after the
opening of the border. According to Tigran Sargsyan, we must not
think as losers, the time to lose has long ago passed and the time
for victory already came. So said Tigran Sargsyan and smiling tried
to assure the students that they are getting ready for a victory
studying in the U.S.

This victorious mood that either the students inspired the prime
minister or he was trying to inspire the students was impressive. But
there is something incomprehensible in this mood. Not because it does
not correspond to the content of the Armenian and Turkish protocols,
with which the border will be or will not be opened. The point is
not the content of the Armenian and Turkish protocols but the reality
present in Armenia. Looking at this realty, the simple question occurs
whom Tigran Sargsyan is going to defeat or whom we are going to win
in his opinion. Whom or what the Armenian students studying in the U.S.

are going to win.

Will we win Turkey with open borders and with the help of these
youths if of course after having completed their studies they return
to Armenia? If so, the prime minister’s approaches perhaps are as
serious as his pre-crisis observations that not the crisis but the
foreign capital escaping from the crisis will come to Armenia. Just
the opposite came out to happen: the crisis came to Armenia and
the existing capital rushed away from Armenia (for example, Gagik
Tsarukyan’s acquirement of 40 million in Bulgaria).

Whom other can we win with open borders besides Turkey? About what
other victory could Tigran Sargsyan speak? Maybe he intends a victory
over ourselves about which he noted in a TV interview saying that the
border opening will enable to overcome the oligopoly in the economy
and to change our life.

We have to note, that from this point, defeating Turkey seems more
real than winning ourselves. The point is that this possibility
would be more real if after numerous speeches of Tigran Sargsyan he
made a single step in his direction to register a local victory for
us to see how our prime minister registers a victory over a vicious
phenomenon of the governmental system. In turn, the Armenian students
studying in the U.S. may wonder how they can defeat for instance
Hovik Abrahamyan’s son who can be presented the post of the head of
a commune on the occasion of his wedding. Is Tigran Sargsyan able to
explain clearly and sincerely this reality, how, whom we are going
to win. Sons, cousins, daughters and relatives are many but posts
are few and Armenians are devoted to them.