YEREVAN—A panel discussion titled “Peace, Development and Connectivity in the South Caucasus” held at the Antalya Diplomatic Forum brought together key representatives from Armenia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and the European Union. The discussion shed light on the diverse perspectives and challenges surrounding peace efforts in the region.
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Armenians are being led to the slaughter once again.
Armenia failure was not to offer meaningful settlement in the 1990s and stalled in the meantime the balance of power shifted to Azerbaijan who had been playing the long game.
The failure of the patriotic leadership of victorious Armenia in 1990s was not to force the enemy into capitulation and integrating liberated Artsakh, an ancient Armenian province, with Armenia which would then bring Artsakh under Russian protection by treaty as well. Not that we needed the Russian protection at the time because we had destroyed the enemy capabilities and had the upper hand but for the mere fact that sine Russia was obligated to protect Armenia’s borders, Artsakh would have been protected as well once it became an integral part of Armenia and found itself within the new borders of Armenia. In any event, Russia is there, supposedly that is, to act as a deterrent against our Turkish enemy to the west, a NATO member thus also a Russian enemy by association, and they are not there to do anything in regards to our enemy to the east, not to mention they helped create it in the first place, and I’m sure we could and still can take care of them on our own.
Something else our short-sighted leaders failed to do was to populate liberated territories from all over the world. I would have brought at least half a million diaspora Armenians, from the Middle East in particular, into Artsakh and surrounding regions, give them free land to set roots and conduct business in return for each family giving one soldier to the Armenian armed forces. That would have doubled our fighting men and also send a message to the enemy we are here to stay!
The should be a public inquiry into Armenian government conduct why did Armenia cite union with Arktash in its declaration of independence and constitutional text yet only ever recognised the inhabitants right of self determination, the bare minimum of political support? Why does Armenia only recognise Israel when Israel has shown itself to be consistently hostile perhaps there’s the Armenian community in Israel especially Jerusalem to factor in yet Israel buddy Azerbaijan recognises Palestine although this is probably a sop to the Muslim mob and it’s credentials with other Muslim countries even Georgia recognises Palestine. Also As the Soviet Union which Armenia was part of recognised Palestine in 1988 presumably Armenia choose not to continue? Also the church schism from the Soviet era why hadn’t the church in America been brought back into concordance with the church in Armenia even the Russian orthodox church in exile reunited three years after the end of the Soviet Union. It seems doing nothing is a national trait