PITFALLS IN ARMENIA-SYRIA RELATIONS
On August 23 president of Armenia Robert Kocharian appointed Arshak Poladian the Armenian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Arabic Republic of Syria. This fact seems common, but still there are concealed a number of problems.
It is well known that Armenia and Syria are allies and have no contradiction, which cannot be easily solved. Official Damascus was among the first to recognize the independence of the Republic of Armenia and to open an Embassy here. In the worst days of the blockade of the 90's by the order of President of Syria Hafez Asad Armenia received a great stock of wheat and flour.
Nevertheless certain shifts in regional politics hamper the dynamic development of the alliance between Armenia and Syria. Probably, that is why there was no Syrian Ambassador in Armenia for long years and that is why, in return, Yerevan called back its Ambassador Levon Sarkisian in 2004. After that Armenia had been represented only by Charge D'Affaires Yura Baboukhanian and Artiom Aznavourian.
Syria had appointed Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary Ambassador to Armenia for the term of 2000-2002 in the person of Dr. Hamid Hasan, who, by the way, had been in Armenia since 1997, in the office of the Syrian Charge D'Affaires. All the rest of Syrian representatives to Armenia had only the status of Charge D'Affaires. Ghasan Rslan, representing Syria through 2003-2005 was given the status of Ambassador, although he took the functions of only Charge D'Affaires.
Official Damascus says that such kind of situation is caused by lack of professional diplomats in Syria, though Armenian experts think that it is rather connected with obvious progress in Syria-Turkey relations since 2000. It seems like Syria made decision to improve its relations with Turkey at the cost of diplomatic dialogue with Armenia.
In private Syrian diplomats say that establishment of visa regime between Armenia and Syria was a serious blow to the relations between the states. This circumstance negatively affects the interests of the citizens of both the states, but on the other hand Armenia, being a member of CSTO, has a number of international obligations connected with national security issues. In any case those obligations are by no means in immediate touch with Armenia-Syria relations.
Therefore, it is time to put aside the small problems and go on with improvement of bilateral partnership, necessity of which needs no proof. Allegedly, Syria has intention to abolish the visa regime for Armenian citizens. This is always welcome, the citizens of both the countries will have more opportunity of contact and cooperation, as well as Armenians from Syria will be able to get into closer contact with their homeland.
So, it's obvious that all the pitfalls in Armenian-Syrian relations are can be easily overcome, and the appointment of Armenian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Syria may become the first step. Time will tell.
- By Armen Manvelian
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