ARMENIAN GOV’T IS LIKE A POKER PLAYER WHO HAS LOST HIS CARDS
H. Hamidov
Today
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Feb 3 2010
Azerbaijan
"Zugzwang" (means "compulsion to move" in German) is a situation in
checkers or chess when one party is forced to make a disadvantageous
move.
Simply put, it is a situation where whatever moves a player makes,
he will face defeat.
We should admit that this term suits precisely the situation that
Armenia faces today.
Moreover, it seems that the government of this neighboring country
either does not understand what consequences its policies will soon
have or is deliberately leading the state into an abyss.
Armenia’s National Assembly of Seventh Convocation started its fourth
session in Yerevan on Feb. 1. The first meeting approved the agenda,
which was divided into three sections.
As it became known, the deputies will be given 24 questions during
the first segment of the discussions. The second segment has not
yet been formulated, while the third one will cover 75 questions,
including the ratification of 15 international treaties.
Armenian media reported that the agenda does not include the
consideration of the Armenian-Turkish protocols on the normalization
of Turkey-Armenia relations.
So, what is the Armenian government trying to achieve? One thing
is finally and irrevocably clear – Armenia did not want to open the
Armenian-Turkish border and establish diplomatic relations with Turkey
from the very beginning. If at first Sargsyan displayed a willingness
to establish relations, forgetting about the clear requirement to
recognize the so-called "genocide" of Armenians, the true face of
Armenian diplomacy has emerged due to outside pressure.
This neighboring country would not oppose opening the border with
Turkey. But Yerevan, of course, understood that Ankara will not do
it without the withdrawal of the Armenian troops from Azerbaijani
territories. Everyone knows that the borders will not open otherwise.
As a result, Armenia decided to keep proactive and abandon a further
development of relations with Turkey by injecting amendments into
the protocols after a strange decision by the Constitutional Court.
Sargsyan understood that the presence of these amendments would
offend Ankara and its entire diplomacy. Turkey’s further actions in
this case were quite predictable.
The weak Armenian parliament, which has failed to address serious
governmental tasks, only pretends to be acting as the country’s
legislative body. Several days ago it released the agenda of its next
session, without including the consideration of the Armenian-Turkish
protocols.
Of course, it could add the protocols to the agenda and discuss
them, but certainly not ratify them. However, this move would have
discredited the Sargsyan government. Not putting the protocols on
the agenda means not only refusing to ratify the protocols, but also
refusing to consider them at all.
In addition, the Armenian parliament declared that the second segment
of the session has not yet been formulated, thereby preserving the
possibility of including these ghostly protocols in the legislature’s
agenda. Why? Just to be on the safe side. At random … hoping for
the best.
So, the Sargsyan government looks like a poker player, who has lost
cards in his hands, but continues bluffing, raise the stakes, hoping
for something, but not understanding that no one will want to play
the game proposed by Yerevan, because big politics is not a game
of cards…
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
