US POLICY ON SOUTH CAUCASUS ‘THREATENS TO SECURITY’

News.az
March 16 2010
Azerbaijan

Russia makes no secret that the US policy in the South Caucasus is
a security threat.

"I view the current US foreign policy in the Caucasus, as a
continuation of policy by neoconservatives in the new circumstances,
said political analyst Rasim Agayev.

According to him, it envisioned the creation in the Greater Middle
East – from Baghdad to Rawalpindi, which would include both Turkey
and South Caucasus and North Caucasus.

"But, unfortunately for Americans, the crisis that emerged in
the world, and the fact the Americans are bogged down in Iraq and
cannot simply come loose from Afghanistan, these circumstances have
changed the US plans. However, this policy is going on. It aims at
the division, and fragmentation of the regional countries. We see
the attempts of the policy towards Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iran.

As for Azerbaijan and Georgia, they are already fragmented, while
Americans pretend that nothing happened, and if everything goes as
it should, all problems will be resolved.

And if the South Caucasus was part of Russia or the sphere of the
Russian influence on the agreement with the United States, there
would have been no problems in the region. Russia does not conceal
the fact that it is the US policy conducted in the South and further
in the North Caucasus that poses a threat to security. This is not to
suggest that Americans should give the Caucasus to Russia, or just
throw it and go. But there is a need for consensus between the two
countries on this and similar regions.

The United States and EU are trying to break up Turkey, using the
Kurdish, Iraqi, Armenian factors, as well as the political crisis
around the confrontation of the army and the Turkish authorities. The
constitutional state of the Turkish army resembles of the CPSU,
being technologically treated similarly as the Communist Party in the
period of perestroika. In fact, the Turkish army has been discredited
in the eyes of the public for the first time in the past quarter of
the century. For the first time since Ataturk the army in Turkey is
based on the broad masses of Muslims.

In such circumstances, the army is unable to operate using the same
methods as before, when it overthrew the unwanted government and
guaranteed a secular way of development. In addition, the strong
influence from the outside, for example, Americans who want to
put Turkey into place, to subordinate it the way it did since 1945
until 90’s. The United States also punish Turkey for the drift in
the direction of Russia. However, after the collapse of the Soviet
Union Turkey have found a great market and a reliable partner in
terms of technologies, oil and gas. Thus, we can speak of the similar
geopolitical area", – said Rasim Agayev.