ARMENIA’S PRESSURE DECREASED
James Hakobyan
Lragir.am
29/01/10
In the political lexicon of Armenia in recent months, especially within
the opposition the thesis that the pressure on Armenia in the Karabakh
issue has intensified is increasingly used and Armenia extinguished
the resource of protracting time. At first glance, everything seems
logical and natural: the opposition warns about unwanted signals
for the country. But the regularity is suspended after because it
is not understandable what the opposition is going to do to prevent
such development. And it must be noted that in Armenia there is no
functional strength, capable of preventing undesirable developments
in the Karabakh settlement.
The point is not that the threat is exaggerated and signing of
a document is noticed in the nearest future, but the fact that if
such a threat arouses in Armenia, there is no political resource for
its prevention. Who is going to prevent the danger – the Armenian
National Congress or the ARF, maybe Yerkarapah or the former and
current commanders of the NKR Defense Army? The answer to this question
seems not to exist in Armenia.
Although, there apparently seems to be some kind of preventive force,
which nevertheless, prevents the realization of the "compromise"
policy declared by the government. Perhaps, this force is not in
Armenia and Karabakh, and somewhere far away, maybe in America,
Russia or even Iran. But the fact that this force has not been in
the Armenian political "flesh" and did not present to the society its
views on the Karabakh issue indicates that there are serious problems
connected with this force.
Germs of power are present everywhere: in the Congress, and in ARF,
and in the army, government, and in the public sector. But for some
reason they do not want to get political clearance, while remaining
within the not very serious initiatives. And it suggests that the
principal in the Karabakh issue is not the external pressure. Perhaps
it is simply invented, because it is beneficial to all. The main
problem is the lack of internal pressure. Pressure in the Karabakh
issue in Armenia clearly decreased. And the feeling is that Armenia
is not so much in favor of the release as against the retention.