Garen Mouths Off
Amulsar Update
In the three weeks since I last addressed the Amulsar gold mine issue, it has remained heated and not yet resolved for the better.
Prime Minister Pashinyan had held a meeting on August 19th in which he was asking good questions. This inspired hope along with the fact that a criminal investigation had already been opened into the whole situation, based on suspicions of corruption.
You’ll recall that for several years now, a foreign company named Lydian has been working on getting permission t
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US & UK Hands-Off Amulsar! No Mining in Amulsar!
Thanks for the useful updates, Garen. Accurate and timely info is much-needed, given how politicized (and fast-moving) this issue is.
There’s one issue i believe you can emphasize more: Namely, the legal framework/enforcement mechanism for mining. At present, it is woefully inadequate. Thus, Lydian can claim rightfully (at times) that it has adhered to the letter of the law on environmental impact assessments, toxic emissions, and so forth. But in fact, the bar has been set so low as to make compliance almost meaningless! This is a fundamental issue. Legal reform is urgently required.
Attempts by the “international community” to settle the Artsakh dispute under its terms and the exploitation Armenia’s strategic gold reserves by foreign interests are the two fundamental reasons Serj Sargsyan brought British national Armen Sargsyan back to Armenia and turned power over to Nikol in 2018. It is a fact that Nikolik was put in power by Western interests and Globalists. The CIA backed NED and the George Soros backed Open Society Foundation were instrumental in helping Nikol rise to power. Therefore, Nikol is not in power to serve Armenian interests. Moscow is simply tolerating him for now. Actually, Nikol has been giving in to Russian demands to simply save his skin. Russians know that if Armenia is to survive in a place like the south Caucasus Armenia has no choice but to remain Russia’s ally. We therefore have a very weird situation, compliments of the “people’s choice” of course. A country fully dependent on Russia for survival now has a ruling administration that is in the service of Western powers and Globalists. The sad/troubling part in all this is that we Armenians as a collective people(both in and out of the homeland) are too self-engrossed and too politically illiterate to do anything truly positive or constructive when it comes to Armenia’s long term survival in the south Caucasus. Nevertheless, with these Western agents and Neo-Bolsheviks now in power, Armenia’s situation on the global stage will gradually get worst in the coming years. In the process, we as a people will run the risk of not only ruining Armenian culture and polluting Armenia’s vital/strategic water resources but also losing significant amounts of land in Artsakh.