RUSSIAN EXPERT: THE PROBLEM OF RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS A COMPETITION OF TWO FOREIGN POLITICAL LINES OF THE UNITED STATES

ArmInfo
2010-03-09 20:51:00

ArmInfo. The Armenian-Turkish normalization is currently somewhat
idle. The opening of the Upper Lars check-point economically helps
Armenia, gives it an opportunity to make a short pause in this
process and not to accelerate it too much the way it was possible to
do before the opening of the check-point, Russian political expert,
the head of the International Relations Department of the Institute
for Political and Military Analysis Sergey Markedonov said during a
Yerevan-Tbilisi-Moscow TV bridge today.

Commenting on the decision of the US House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, Markedonov stressed that this is not the first decision of
such nature. "In general, the problem of recognition of the Armenian
Genocide has been discussed in the United States since 1916 when the
Senate’s first resolution on this topic was worked out, initially
it covered humanitarian aspects, and since 1948 – recognition of the
fact of the Armenian Genocide",- said Markedonov.

This problem will be continued. Markedonov doubts that the US
Congress or Presidential Administration will support this initiative
as the United States and Turkey are linked with much too many ties,
especially, in the military-political field, and are strongly
inter-dependent.

The problem of recognition of the Armenian Genocide is rivalry of two
foreign policies in the United States: harsh realism and democratic
internationalism. These two approaches have theoretically co-existed
for many decades and will co-exist for many years more.