WHAT GOAL DO THE SUCCESSIVE HEARINGS PURSUE?
- It is noteworthy that on April 17, the day PACE passed the report on the “Situation of the Democratic Institutions in Armenia”, the Committee on “Security and Cooperation in Europe” or the “Helsinki Committee” of the US Congress also started discussions over agenda “Armenia after the Elections.”
It’s more than clear that after PACE’s holding long-lasting and detailed hearings and debates and adopting the report, the discussions held in the “Helsinki Committee” of the Congress would add nothing new to the international community’s assessments on the post-electoral situation in our country.
Moreover, from the point of view of following the situation of the democratic institutions in our country, introducing relevant proposals and achieving their adoption, they have been more pedantic and rigorous during the recent years, compared to the US Republican Administration which is clearly guided by geopolitical interests.
However, even in conditions of such pedantry and rigorousness, the report adopted in Strasburg on April 17 is quite balanced, and it enables the new leadership of Armenia to bring to life the specific proposals before the start of the PACE summer session.
Therefore, the factor currently troubling our country is not absolutely the contents of the international community’s demands (introduced in the spring session of PACE) of conducting an independent inquiry into the March 1-2 events, releasing the individuals arrested by political motives, refusing to implement the changes introduced to the law on “Holding Assemblies, Rallies, Marches and Demonstrations.”
We are sure that their phase-by-phase implementation in the course of the coming months is not absolutely “beyond the powers” of the Armenian authorities and political forces.
The real problem consists in the following: what particular goals does the leadership of the given state or international tribunal pursue by introducing reports, proposals and recommendations? And in this respect, it is noteworthy that the top figures of the US State Department and first of all, Condoleezza Rice, have started dropping open hints at the existence of new opportunities for the solution of the Karabakh issue during the coming months.
What gives rise to more concern is the US State Department release which says the United States and the international community do not recognize Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state. The release was published on April 17, the day the Helsinki Committee held discussions over the issue “Armenia after the Elections”. It is also noteworthy that during the discussions devoted to the internal political situation of Armenia, the American Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza acted as a rapporteur, making tough and unilateral assessments on our country’s current situation.
In the meantime, special attention was paid to the issue on how the recent developments of Armenia may influence the process of the Karabakh settlement talks. M. Bryza assured the participants that the Armenian and Azeri Foreign Ministers will meet in the course of the coming month, with the purpose of preparing the negotiations between Ilham Aliev and Serge Sargsyan. This testifies to the fact that the United States hopes to finish the coordination of the Karabakh settlement principles before the Presidential elections to be held in Azerbaijan on October 15. Obviously, the official Washington’s intention to link the attempts of speeding up the process of the Karabakh settlement talks with the investigation of the recent developments of Armenia and the situation of the democratic institutions may create an ambiguous situation for our country. The fact is also understood in Azerbaijan; therefore, Foreign Minister E. Mamedyarov has been recently making “constructive statements” on Azerbaijan’s willingness to resume the negotiation process.
It seems to Azerbaijan that Armenia may hereafter be viewed as a retreating country in terms of the development of democracy and even be compared with it. And the “concern” expressed by the Azeri delegates over the situation of the democratic institutions in Armenia as well as the false demands of not applying “double standards” against the country may be accounted for by this.
We believe that before the Presidential elections to be held in Azerbaijan on October 15, our Foreign Ministry should adopt the tactics of making an equivalent response to the tough stance of the Azerbaijani leadership.
- VARDAN GRIGORYAN
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