ARMENIAN LEADERSHIP MAKES ANY FUTURE COOPERATION IMPOSSIBLE

news.az
Aug 1, 2011
Azerbaijan

News.Az interviews Yuri Bocharov, an Israeli political scientist and
member of the board of the Azerbaijan-Israel international association.

International mediators speak much of the need to raise mutual
trust between the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia and now on
this background we heard the famous statement by Sargsyan that his
generation returned Karabakh while the next generation of Armenians
must return Armenian lands in Turkey. What can you say about his
statement?

Armenia is approaching the socioeconomic crisis, the country is
practically on the verge of crisis, which will naturally lead to
shift of powers. Therefore, the country’s leadership has to prove
its importance to its people every day. As it is useless to speak
of economy, they have to speak only of politics, call for a fight
for ‘great Armenia’, speak of Turkish genocide and frighten with
Azerbaijani aggression.

After Armenia attained the prolongation of the treaty about military
cooperation with Russia to 2044 and almost isolated from the rest of
the world with the Russian troops and S-300 rockets, it dares to make
any bellicose statements. Now when Russia is again responsible for the
security of Armenia, Armenia can bear no responsibility for its words.

Thus, the Turkish government will likely have to put claims to Moscow
for its vassal’s pranks. I think that people in Turkey knows the fable
about the lap dog that barks at the elephant and they realize that
they have nothing to take from a lap dog. Let is bark further. Though
probably, by barking at her hosts’ order, it is trying to provoke
one more interregional conflict.

What can be the result of turning the younger generation of Armenians
into zombies and raising them in hatred to neighbors?

Majority of modern wars need suicide attackers, while zombie-soldiers
can easily be sent to death. Such can be prepared from years of youth.

Making a fool of someone results in that further those young men
are ready to fulfill any order of their Fuerer. For this reason, the
ongoing developments in Armenia say that the leader of the nation is
preparing the growing generation to war rather than constructive works.

I have no idea whether such demarches of leaders of the opposite
sides have ever been seen in Palestinian-Israeli conflict
with the humiliation, but we already see it in the case of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. Can they agree anything in such an
atmosphere?

In any dispute, when one of the debating sides understands that it
starts to lose, it is immediately shifts to abuses. When there are no
arguments at all, they are usually trying to settle a debate in their
favor by way of abuse or threats. Unfortunately, in this conflict
Azerbaijani side has no partner in talks at all. Armenia is merely
protracting negotiations.

Sargsyan’s words clearly do not promote the peaceful resolution of
the Karabakh conflict. Does it raise possibility of the forced way
of conflict settlement?

Armenia, if exactly, its political leadership needs war. It is
practically the only chance to settle its socioeconomic problems and
get rid of such hemorrhoid as the problem of NKO. The situation to
which Armenian leaders and their lobbyists have driven themselves does
not allow them settle the issue of Nagorno Karabakh peacefull. In
any script of the peaceful way to solve the conflict on the basis
of current international norms and commitments of international
law, as well as proposals of the Minsk Group, there will always be
provocateur-patriots to accuse Armenian leadership of cowardice and
betrayal of ideas of Great Armenia.

For this reason, only way and even defeat will help the current
leadership of Armenia preserve its image. And even if later they
will have to resign, by their opinion, the majority will consider
them heroes. Therefore, it is becoming clear why Armenian leadership
is making any future cooperation impossible by its hostile attitude,
bellicose rhetoric and constant policy of xenophobia. And this is the
paradox of our time and place, only war brings ‘fame’ while peace is
sinking into oblivion.

Only in the event when any Armenian leadership is recognized the
hero for peace with Azerbaijan primarily by its people, it will make
real steps toward peace. But when people are starving, unfortunately,
it is more profitable for them to speak of and to prepare to war.

F.H.

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