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Michael Mensoian
Michael Mensoian, J.D./Ph.D, is professor emeritus in Middle East and political geography at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a retired major in the U.S. army. He writes regularly for the Armenian Weekly.
Latest posts by Michael Mensoian (see all)
- Facing the Reality that is Artsakh - August 6, 2020
- Tourism: An Economic Tide That Can Lift All “Boats” - January 29, 2020
- The Legacy of the Hairenik and the Armenian Weekly - January 7, 2020
Even though the title includes “Artsakh”,not much is mentioned or said about Artsakh other than a link/connection.
I do not intend to argue about the remarks/comments made by Mr. Mensoian. As always, he is articulate, thoughtful and his remarks are well reasoned and food for thought whether you agree or disagree.
The point I would like to underline is that the Artsakh issue is a major political challenge to Armenia; politically, morally and financially. It is a tremendous burden to defend Artsakh and monitor and defend the ” Line of Contact”. The resources are not sufficient and the human sacrifice is becoming intolerable; too many young servicemen are sacrificing their lives with no end in sight. Unless this bleeding stops Armenia/Artsakh will face all kinds of the issues listed in the article.
This conflict needs resolution; sadly it appears that all the parties are content with the status quo.
When the OSCE Minsk Group was established in December 1994, the Hungarian Chairman in office Marlin Krasznai issued the mandate for the Co-Chairmen.
– Provide an appropriate framework for the conflict resolution in the way of assuring the negotiation process supported by the Minsk group.
– Obtaining conclusively the Parties of an agreement on the armed conflict in order to permit the convening of the Minsk Conference
-Promoting the peace process by deploying OSCE peacekeeping forces.
Twenty years have passed. Repeat 23 years and no progress has been made. The OSCE-Minsk group has been ineffective. Indeed the members have had a deaf ear and a blind eye to the repeated transgressions and violations by the Azeris, putting the blame equally on both sides. Totally unjust, unfair and biased. Non of the objectives of the mandate were accomplished.
The newly elected parliament and the eventual Prime minister should make the resolution of the Artsakh issue a top priority. Without that, the economic conditions will not be able to be changed. It is a huge drain and cannot be sustained forever.
Vart Adjemian
This is an excellent analysis by Dr. Mensoian but he is far too tactful.
The politicians and oligarchs are robbing the country blind.
The people of Armenia have to find it within themselves to do something about this. I don’t know if this will happen because many of them are themselves wrapped up in the corrupt system, for example trading their votes for a few dollars.
The Diaspora could help a lot more, but when the corrupt Armenian government keeps it at arms length, and we see some Diasporan organizations that silent or even complicit with the Armenian government, there are not a lot of reasons to be optimistic.
One thing is for sure: many “leaders” of Armenia will go down in history for the bad characters they are. History will spit on their names.
above mentioned all adoption law not sell farm land to foreigners
imperative like Palestine