LET US BE ASHAMED OF KARS NATIONALLY
Lragir.am
17/12/09
On these days, the lawyer Hrayr Tovmasyan, dwelling on the Armenian
and Turkish protocols, touched upon the Kars agreement too. He in
particular noted, "From the point of international right, Armenia is
surely the legal successor of the agreement of Kars". In other words,
Turkey cites the Kars agreement and "there is possibility to decline
that agreement". And then he continued, "Unfortunately, when people
said that we did not ratify the Kars agreement, me and my friends
needed just a few days to find the ratification. I am stating with
sorrow what speeches made by the Armenian side there have been and I
would not like them to be released. As an Armenian man I am ashamed
of those speeches".
Naturally, we are not going to dispute the opinion of a specialist on
the international right and we consider impermissible and incorrect
such a behavior by a non-professional. We may add only that even if
we leave apart the certainty of the fact that the present Armenia is
the legal successor of the agreement of Kars from the point of being
adequate to the international right, another fact is more than certain
and indisputable. It is the fact that today’s Armenian people are the
bearers of the consequences of the ratification of that document and
is the inheritor of that shame.
>>From this point we cannot agree with Mr. Tovmasyan’s opinion that
"I am stating with sorrow what speeches made by the Armenian side
there have been and I would not like them to be released. As an
Armenian man I am sorry for those speeches".
>>From the point of preserving the territories we are very close to
the fulfillment of a Kars-2 scenario and the detailed "vision" of the
Kars-1 will be very expedient for everyone: both for the creators of
today’s initiative-yielding-real policy and for those who will bear
(are already bearing) its consequences. We are begging you to release
that ratification. If you are ashamed of those speeches as an Armenian
man, let us be ashamed of them altogether, if there is something to
be ashamed of (which is doubtless), let us be ashamed nationally. From
whom are we hiding anything? From Turks? In order not to be ashamed?
All of them know everything better than we do. We are not the only
authors of that document. We have to know all its details to at least
understand what to do. If there are evident negative parallels between
the "realist" figures of today and of that period (there is again no
doubt) let the answer be given today.
Really, let us today, again as Armenian people, be ashamed nationally
for what we have done once with us. For us not to "embrace" a regular
phase of grief tomorrow.
From: Baghdasarian