DIPLOMATIC CAPITULATION OF ARMENIA
news.az
April 23 2010
Azerbaijan
Serzh Sargsyan US President Abraham Lincoln once said: "You may
deceive all people part of time, and part of people all time, but
not all people all time".
Centuries have passed and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has
proven that Lincoln’s words were true. The Armenian president has
appealed to people saying Armenia has decided not to withdraw from
the process of normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations but
to suspend the ratification of protocols. It is not ruled out that
the text of Sargsyan’s message to the Armenian people was changed at
the last moment and the initial variant spoke not of the suspension
but of the complete withdrawal of this country from the process of
normalizing ties with Turkey. But at the last moment it was decided
to soften possible implications of Armenia’s diplomatic capitulation
and state the suspension of protocol ratification. This is just a good
mine is a losing game, a kind of a fig leaf used by Serzh Azatovich
to hide his shame.
But nature has not created a fig leaf of the same height with the
Armenian president. The fiasco is too obvious. He stated since the
start of normalization of the Turkish-Armenian relations that this
process is separated from the process of the Karabakh conflict
settlement. And no persuasions, including the statements of the
Turkish leadership about the links between these two processes
and impossibility to normalize Turkish-Armenian relations without
liberation of Azerbaijani lands did not have any influence on Sargsyan
and his surroundings. They continued deceiving everyone all the time.
In the result, Sargsyan was deceived in his expectations of limitless
loyalty of patrons to Armenia, overestimating his own capacities in
sowing discord between Azerbaijan and Turkey and underestimating
Azerbaijan’s geopolitical importance and the abilities of our
diplomacy.
In addition, as a result of "football diplomacy" with participation
of Serzh Sargsyan, Turkey has turned into the fourth co-chair of the
OSCE Minsk Group while the issue of the Karabakh conflict has become
even more discussed. Meanwhile, Armenia has not reached the main goal
which it pursued in conducting "football diplomacy"-the opening of
overland Turkish-Armenian border. And the most cynical thing that
Sargsyan could do in this situation was to appeal to the nation,
that is to those whom he has deceived for some time, planning to
continue this process eternally. I can say that Armenia has again
demonstrated its unreliability as an opponent in the negotiation
process. Official Yerevan has already rejected the updated Madrid
principles proposed by Minsk Group and accepted by Azerbaijan, it
is also against inclusion of Turkey into the Minsk Group, as well as
Iran’s mediation in this process.
And now Armenia is suspending the ratification of the Turkish-Armenian
protocols. All these events exposes unpreparedness of official Yerevan
to comply with the undertaken commitments and hold policy aimed at
establishing peace and good neighbor relations in our region like
they prove the extreme dependence of Armenia on the instructions of
its patrons which may change or remain constant. Russian FM Sergey
Lavrov returned Armenian Minister Edward Nalbandian to the hall of
signing the Turkish-Armenian protocols through an only note. And now
Serzh Sargsyan has declared the decision to suspend the ratification of
protocols after the visit to Moscow and the meeting with the Russian
president. In other words, to explain the suspension of the process
only with the national interests of Armenia is the next lie which
will be exposed anyway, since Abraham Lincoln was right…