ARMENIA SCORED TWO DIPLOMATIC VICTORIES.

AllVoices.com
/contributed-news/5653133-armenia-scored-two-diplo matic-victories
April 21 2010

The Washington meeting with President Serzh Sargsyan and Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, were intended to return to the track
of the normalization of Armenian-Turkish dialogue.

On this day in Yerevan, said the Director of the Armenian Center for
National and International Studies (ACNIS) Richard Giragosian.

Washington marked the beginning of the secret diplomacy in the
Armenian-Turkish relations, "said Giragosian. According to him, in
the process of "Armenia plays chess, and Turkey in the theater, and,
if in chess can be a winner, in the theater play good or bad." Chapter
ACNIS stressed that Yerevan managed to win two diplomatic victories,
the first of which led to the emergence of serious disagreements
between Ankara and Baku, and the second to the recognition by the
international community’s lack of relationship between the process
of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations and the settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.

Against this backdrop, some caution is a statement of the Turkish
prime minister to return to Azerbaijan of the two districts-Agdam and
Fizuli, members of the security buffer zone around Nagorno-Karabakh
as a compromise step from the Armenian side, admitted Giragosian.

According to him, such a return for the Armenian side can not be a
workable compromise, since the establishment of diplomatic relations
and opening of the border should be considered in the order of things,
and not as a matter of compromise.

To thwart reanimated process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish
relations, Azerbaijan might resort to a brief military campaign
in the Karabakh front, said the head ACNIS. According to him, the
international community have repeatedly stated that war – not a means
for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh problem, and in the case of a
military adventure there is no guarantee that it is not going to grow.

Kirakosyan said that the refusal of Baku from the May joint
exercises with the U.S. essentially has become a diplomatic slap
in the face Washington in the light of recent developments in the
Nagorno-karababahskoy problems and uninvited of Azerbaijan at the
conference on nuclear safety in the U.S. capital.