By Alyssa Dermenjian
After the April 2-6 Azerbaijani attacks on the Nagorno-Karabagh Republic (Artsakh/NKR), which resulted in hundreds of lives lost and confirmed reports of Azerbaijani war crimes against both civilians and soldiers, the international community, and in particular the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, charged with negotiating a lasting peace agreement since 1994, have stepped up efforts to negotiate a settlement.
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All Armenian presidents the last one being the worst one have signed under agreements which are against Armenian national interests the classic examples being the treacherous Armenian/Turkish protocols,Madrid principles,Kazan,and others.
It is high time all this type of anti Armenian agreements stops and we start looking after our own interests,enough is enough.
I would like to point that ten high ranking colonels in the army were forced to retire by the orders of D.Minister S.Ohanyan yesterday and I believe the reason is strictly to do that they were against sultan serjik’s policy of giving our liberated lands to the Azeris.
Sorry, here is corrected text.
We have an independent State, and we have a President. If something is wrong with that it is partially because each of us does wrongs, small or big. Don’t blame somebody before looking in a mirror.
All agreements are just papers! During the briefing with journalists, Putin was clear about the gold and the oil being against principle of people’s self-determination. Cynically, Putin made another big step in the same direction – “no winner or loser” he said. Sounds like a game to him!
Armenians are not buying Artsakh, because one does not buy something that belongs to him. Artsakh was waiting for his people to claim the homeland, and the claim was called and fought successfully. Armenians are victors! We stick to that! Our Presidents should not allow Presidents of Russia go so far in their “evaluations”.
I wish I were the spirit and the voice of our President when he was briefing journalists. It seems that he is not briefed appropriately. But only seems! Just reading this article lives strong impression that Armenian media is in lethargic dream, spiritless. Our President is not worse than the articles and the comments about him! Have not noticed?
Stay in a line with our spiritual leaders both military and intellectual!
What is needed is a DECLARATION OF THE MOMENT!
Declaration starts with an outline of the brutality of Azeri regime displayed during 4-day war in April, with a echo of Sumgait pogroms of 1988. The paragraph ends with an understanding that future of Armenians can’t have any common point with Azeri leadership. And it is not just Aliev!
Declaration continues into history of the “conflict” (it is wrong word, should be confrontation). Outlines major moments of the war for independence (world-wide used terminology, like in textbooks of France or the USA) and paragraph ends with a clear, single line stating that Armenians won the war of independence, and Artsakh stood on the way of independence.
Declaration ends with description of spirit of people of Artsakh – what is their vision of future, what have they achieved during this period (including statistics on population demographics, economics, education, finance, ecology…). Describes amplitude of foreign relations. Involvement of Armenia, including Armenia being ready to recognize Artsakh’s independence (good point to stop here, however…). The very last, fixing lines should be from Armenian poetry, because Armenian poetry represents clarity and rightness of resilient Armenian people in this struggle for the basic human right of self-determination!
Lastly, the declaration must be disseminated among all nations (unlike what we do currently – telling each other what we know and the outside world remains untold while counting golden coins or consuming oil of our ferocious neighbors).
Its a place to start negotiations. Sargsyan isn’t going to knowingly sign an agreement handing all of Artsakh proper over to the Azeris. Remember, he’s from Artsakh. The cornerstone of politics is compromise and if we want this war to end we need to give something to them. Once we get this over with we can get started with actual nation building.
Sorry, just entertaining this nonsense is dangerous. This isn’t a game of “bring them to the table”. The Madrid principle is the Azeri suggestion unfortunately being take seriously by all including our leadership. Tell me one winning side who compromises such as this? Offering all the lands it won back for some “future referendum”?
Any peace agreement needs to be fair to be lasting and it should deal with all issues at the same time otherwise it becomes pointless and open to abuse. The Madrid principle is one sided and amounts to returning our Artsakh to the Azeris piece by piece and with no guarantees attached. It is therefore faulty and needs to be scrapped. A new principle needs to be drawn based on people’s right for self determination, with secure and defendable boundries. This should form the starting point for a meaningful negotiation.