YEREVAN—Armenian President Armen Sarkissian and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan joined other world leaders, high ranking government officials and members of the global security community at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Germany over the weekend to attend the 56th annual Munich Security Conference. The conference, which was first held in the Bavarian capital in 1963 for the purposes of coordinating a common defense doctrine between NATO member-states, has since developed into the most influential security policy meeting in the world.
This year’s events saw security strategists and policy makers discuss the significance of major security policy challenges of “Westlessness“—the perceived drawback of global clout wielded by Euro-Atlantic security structures. Among the hottest topics of discussion in Munich were the the spread of the Coronavirus, the role of social media in undermining democratic institutions, and the espionage threat to the integrity of Western intelligence-sharing mechanisms posed by Chinese-manufactured 5G networking hardware.
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I opened your reference (to Turkmenchai peace agreement), but there was no mention of Armenians. In fact, no nation is explicitly mentioned. If in the full text of Turkmenchai Armenians are mentioned, you must refer to the full text, no to a concise version.
My regards.
I agree…
THANX FOR THE INSIGHTFUL REPOERTING
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Turkmanchi treaty was between Persia ( Iran) and Russia, where Russia defeated Persians and forced them to give away lands.
Azarbaijan was part of Iran not as an independent country. Seems to me that you people love to steal others civilization in the name of Azerbaijan. Your real civilization destroyed by invading Turkic herds from Central Asia and accepted their domination, and Turkification.
I wonder how Russians were capable to change your Turkic surname to AV or OV and your unknown alphabets. Georgians and Armenians fought and kept their heritage and identities in Caucasia.
unfortunately, Armenia lost the entire Armenian highlands (including today’s Azerbaijan), due to invading Turkic Muslim enemies, Muslims, such as Arabs, Mongols, Seljuks from Central Asia.
Like Pashinyan said Armenians have a history in this crazy world of today and nobody is going to take away Artsakh with fake political mean from Armenians!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Koyunlu
There is no justification to show so much toxic hatred and racism towards other people.
GB’s comment makes a fair point. Those whom don’t like it, can reply to it, with a well thought out, logical answer (point by point), instead of cranking up a loudspeaker with a hate speech accusation.
Nobody in the international community cares about B.C., the Roman Empire, Russia, Persia. There should be an effort to teach people about modern history. Armenians barely know about Artsakh’s history or the pogroms in the LATE 20th century, especially the new generation.
I hope one day Armenia has less amateurish politicians. We are in a situation where the US is giving the Azeris huge amounts of tax payer money as military aid, thanks to Trump and his business interests once he is out of office. The Azeris have been building up their military for decades now after their humiliating defeat. They are still in a situation where they will lose but it will be much more difficult.
One mistake Armenia did was not recognize Artsakh back in 2014 during the short war when they had the opportunity to do so to allow other countries to recognize it in the future, like what happened with Kosovo. What was Azerbaijan going to do? It was already at war and the internationally community would have recognized it as a result of Azeri aggression.
This comment didn’t age well…
I followed the public forum. PM Pashinyan clearly made the following poits:
1. Karabagh was never part of an independent Azerbaijan state. Mountainous Karabagh gained its independence from the Soviet Union much like Azerbaijan did
2. Mountainous Karabagh is a party of the negotiation without its participation it is not possible to resolve the conflict because the resolution of the conflict must be accepted by the people of Karabagh, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.
3. The underlying issue is the security and not territoriality. For its sake and for the sake of the regional stability and security, Armenia cannot compromise on its security.
4. In order to achieve a lasting peaceful resolution of the conflict “micro” and then “mini” revolutions need to take place starting with toning down the social media animosity and hatred. Consequently, the resolution of the conflict cannot happen with one or two meetings.
I am surprised to read that this public forum “ seemed to fall short of the diplomatic breakthrough the Chancellor and others had hoped for.” I came across no such hinting from Chancellor or other heads of states, save Aliev who surely looked for a public capitulation that included”Erivan”.
Back in 2000, a family friend went to Azerbaijan and reported how it had turned into a third world country under Aliyev, with fewer citizens having access to drinkable water than a decade earlier.
I think that at this point to have expected a dramatic breakthrough was unrealistic. Nevertheless, talking face to face leaves the doors to progress open no matter how long it takes. Talking can open doors; bullets slam doors shut.
I strongly agree with the comments calling for non-personal, hateful replies.