FOREIGN DIPLOMAT - A DEMONSTRATOR?

This Is Called "Mission"

The March 21 gathering of Levon's supporters (in which the activists were participating with flowers, candles and photos of the "political prisoners") was different from the previous ones with the presence of fresh faces. Particularly Charge D'Affairs of Lithuania in RA Stankiavichus Kyastutis hurried to the Northern Avenue to appear among the demonstrators.
Of course it is a unique phenomenon. During the whole history of our independent country we don't remember a case when a foreign diplomat participates in a demonstration. It is equal to interfering in our internal political affairs. In this case the loyalty of the Charge D'Affairs of Lithuania towards the "pan-Armenian movement" headed by Levon Ter-Petrosyan is strange, mildly speaking.
And naturally, the strange, if not suspicious behavior manifested by the Lithuanian diplomat gave rise to lots of questions.
First: does the law on the "diplomatic service" allow the diplomats in Lithuania to publicly adopt a political stance and posture in the country where he is realizing his mission? Which means, in non-diplomatic language, to poke his nose into the internal political affairs of that country. If not, then what did Mr. Kyastutis lose in the Northern Avenue, among the activists of Armenian Pan National Movement.
Second: What made the Charge D'Affairs to hurry to the demonstrators? Maybe the political action was so interesting, but he couldn't see the whole scene of the provocations from the window of his office. But the March 1 demonstrations in the territory of the French embassy, which turned into a mass disorder, extending the "geography" was not visible to French Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, but Serge Smesoph, not only avoided appearing around Myasnikyan Statute, to "honor" the aggressive demonstrators with his presence, but also didn't even look out of the window of the Embassy.
Third: Probably S. Kyastutis was inspired with the behavior of LTP's kinsmen Armenian diplomats and he had also joined the "pan-national movement" with an announcement made before March 1, and he was hiding this or maybe Ter-Petrosyan's nephew, Arakel Semirjyan, who has been deprived of his diplomatic rank, challenged him to appear in the Northern Avenue. If so, the former employee of the European Department of the Foreign Ministry, A. Semirjyan, did well in the position of an adviser…
Had LTP's nephew been more diligent, he could have persuaded the Charge D'Affairs of Lithuania to hold the photo of former outstanding diplomat, a "political prisoner" at present, Alik Arzumanyan.
Forth: Or maybe we must evaluate the step taken by S. Kyastutis as "people's diplomacy". But real diplomats, in this case revolutionary attorneys, treat similar missions, with irony.
Fifth: Most probably the diplomat was touched by the speech delivered by LTP, in Azatutyun Square, on February 29, where he brought Lithuania as an example of a legislative, civilized country. That day LTP appealed to the West - the United States and certain European structures not to manifest a formal approach towards Armenia, because: " the fate of Armenian democracy is in the hands of their representative - observers. In 10 days the before mentioned powers, countries and structures have chance to contribute to the formation of a civilized and democratic state with free-market economy like Lithuania or like the most regressive country like Middle Asia, in Armenia.
Most probably the Charge D'Affairs of Lithuania was really touched to hear this. That is why the diplomat hurried to meet LTP's activists who have exhausted the methods of their struggle, to pass on the experience of Lithuanian democracy to the demonstrators.
Sixth: Maybe LTP's supporters have managed to convince Kyastutis, that "it is not a political struggle it is the struggle of the society for the restoration of democracy and freedom." And he really believed that he was participating in the social movement. But this statement would sound really ridiculously.
It would have been very interesting to get an answer of at least one of the before mentioned questions.
KIMA YEGHIAZARYAN

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