SERZH SARGSYAN CONFUSING HIS OWN INTERESTS WITH PEOPLE’S INTERESTS: ARMEN AGAYAN

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15:09 ~U 16.12.09

"Armenian-Turkish Protocols or ‘Football Diplomacy,’ from the
beginning, would lead to nothing," said political analyst Armen
Aghayan at at press conference in Yerevan today.

According to the analyst, the losses are currently unknown. "In
particular, with the signing of the Protocols, Armenia recognized
Turkey’s hegemony with respect to western Armenia on quite a high
level." In Aghayan’s opinion, if the Armenian-Turkish Protocols are
ratified, the losses will be even greater.

"Even greater endeavours will be demanded from Armenia’s next governing
leadership, to announce the measures taken during these days to be null
and void," noted the analyst, who also pointed out the psychological
losses: "We lived a short life as a winning nation and now we are
already easily adjusting to swallowing our losses."

Asked whether the Armenian president had made a mistake or whether
he knew from the beginning that it would be this way, Aghayan said
that Sargsyan continues to affirm the idea of cohabiting with the
Turkish people, believing that it will bring a great benefit to the
Armenian people. "In reality, it justifies that in a way and it is a
way of confusing his own interests with that of the people’s," he said.

Despite numerous opinions that Sargsyan was persuaded into playing
this complicated game with Turkish diplomacy, Aghayan believes that
the president knew about that from the beginning: "He knew that the
Turks had to talk about Artsakh [Nagorno-Karabakh] and [he] knew how
he was going to respond to them. The Turks knew as well."

The political analyst considers the current Armenian-Turkish process
to be "a joint presentation organized for the people."