WHERE IS THE SOLUTION KEY
Hakob Badalyan

Lragir.am
14/12/09

The regular visit of the OSCE Minsk group to the region and the
circumstance of not including Armenia within it, the Minsk group
Co-Chairs’ statement, the Obama-Erdogan meeting which anticipated it,
the regular Sargsyan-Clinton phone conversation and some other events
again increased the attention towards foreign political developments.

Experts and political circles again started making judgments on the
Armenian and Turkish and the Karabakh issues.

In other words, the situation is moving in the direction expedient
for the government and the discussion of the issues the solution of
which is to be found in the discussion of completely other issues
is in the first place. More clearly, the solution is to be found
in the Armenian home issues. If these home issues are solved, the
elimination of the dangers in the Armenian and Turkish and Karabakh
issues becomes a matter of wish or techniques.

The foreign policy is just a reality built on home situation, home
realities and home resources. Long-lasting solutions in the foreign
policy cannot be provided when the country with its home situation
does not fit the changes of the world.

If there is economic and political monopoly in the country, if the
government manages to solve questions with the help of its monopole
rights, it is naïve to think we are able to keep the government from
fulfilling its foreign initiatives. Moreover, with the help of the
very initiatives, the government gets from the international political
centers at least moral assistance for the complete control of home
situation. The point is that the government is to be forced to take
into account its people. If the socio-political spheres cannot force
the government do that, they will be unable to force the international
society to take the Armenian society into account. If you cannot
force your own government to consider you, you cannot even expect
the international society to take you into account by its will.

And the only way to make the government remember about the factor of
the society is to focus its attention on home issues. This is more
comprehensible and perceivable for the society. This seems to be a
longer way and while we reach its half, everything will already be
lost in the foreign sphere. But it is not so. In reality, in this way,
current problems in the foreign sphere will be more easily solved,
dangerous developments will faster be prevented than with the help of
criticism and accusations which go on for already one year but have
not yet affected the public moods, the governmental self-confidence
and the plans of the international society.