WE PUT TO AUCTION WHAT WE HAVE
James Hakobyan
Lragir.am
10/12/09
Before the Obama-Erdogan meeting on December 7 in Washington, the press
secretary of the Republican Party Eduard Sharmazanov declared a couple
of times that the meeting would not take place if the parliamentary
committee on foreign relations of Turkey did not give a positive
opinion on the Armenian-Turkish protocols. Sharmazanov prophesied,
and even almost assured that the answer would be positive otherwise
Obama would not accept Erdogan.
As you can see, the commission has not expressed its opinions but Obama
received Erdogan and even allowed him to issue a statement after the
meeting that despite the fact that the Turkish executive body did
not consider the Armenian-Turkish relations as a precondition for
the Karabakh issue, the parliament thinks it cannot influence this
parliamentary decision.
Obviously, the press secretary of the party, who is the secretary of
the faction, was mistaken. He would seem to be mistaken in the fact
that the Karabakh problem is not a precondition in the Armenian-Turkish
relations and the U.S. has the same opinion too.
Based on this logic, Eduard Sharmazanov was predicting that if the
Turkish commission did not make any positive step in this connection,
the U.S. as a sign of dissatisfaction would refuse Erdogan.
Although in reality Edward Sharmazanov and those thinking like him are
mistaken in the question that they deal with global issues with the
inherent shallowness of the RP in drawing conclusions only in order
to please or to justify Serge Sargsyan. If Barack Obama also had such
a problem, he could, and would not accept Erdogan. But Obama took
the office of the president of the United States with more serious
purposes. And the seriousness in politics, especially in geopolitics
is incomparable with personal relationships and emotions.
It is understood even in Russia where politics has traditionally
been built on personal relationships and feelings. And even the
president Medvedev says now that relations between countries and
hostility towards the president Saakashvili cannot affect the
relations between the two peoples. It would seem that this is also
emotions because politics and friendship of peoples have always been
considered at different poles. However, Medvedev clearly hints that
Putin’s personal distaste for Saakashvili must not become an obstacle
for the realization of political interest of Russia which requires
establishing certain relations with Georgia for which the friendship
of peoples is a handy version.
The world seems to be undergoing a serious transformation of
perceptions, at least serious attempts for changes aimed at it. And the
Armenian-Turkish relations totally fit into these attempts. Here the
problem is not between the Armenian and Turkish peoples and the opening
of the border for any payments and benefits. They are only derivatives
of the new world of philosophy which the new administration of the
United States tries to bring in policies. The Armenian and Turkish
process is one of the ways of the introduction of this philosophy.
Meanwhile, in Armenia this process is perceived on the plane of
emotions. As a result, Armenia was left behind this philosophy and the
philosophy of personal relations was brought to the Armenian-Turkish
relations. That is, we put to auction everything we have to get what
we want. Put up to auction, we are waiting now to see who and how
much is ready to pay for our goods, who is revengeful with whom for
us to benefit. But no one turns out to be revengeful because in this
world there are much more serious things.