RECOGNIZING GENOCIDE OR RAISING THE ARMENIAN ISSUE?
- Political scientist ARMEN AYVAZYAN, Director of “Ararat” strategic planning center, was the guest speaker of “Hayatsk” (view) club yesterday. The topic of the discussion was: “Recognizing the Genocide or Raising the Armenian Issue? Possibilities of Adopting New Positions in Armenia’s Foreign Policy”.
The political scientist finds that the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, a process that has become an agenda issue for our country’s foreign policy since 1998, was perceived by the organizations of Armenia and Diaspora in a very narrow sense, i.e. as a matter of moral assessment. With regard to this issue, the Republic of Armenia actually adopted the policy of the Diaspora-Armenian organizations. Such policy was elaborated and conducted before the collapse of the Soviet Union. And by force of some momentum as well as due to inadequate response, the same policy is being uncritically pursued up to date.
A. Ayzvazyan is convinced that, “the use of such policy in the present-day conditions is obsolete; it leads to a deadlock. The recognition of the Genocide is viewed separately from all the strategic security issues concerning Armenia, whereas the Karabakh conflict, the Turkish blockade and refusal to establish diplomatic relations, the Turkish-Azerbaijani information-psychological war, the planning of a new Azerbaijani aggression under the auspices of Turkey, the current demographic crisis in Armenia and the vulnerable condition of the Armenians of Javahk are the direct continuation of the Genocide policy.
According to the speaker, this has led several dozen countries to recognize the Genocide on the level of different structures. Such recognitions, however, make no direct contribution to Armenia’s security issues which stand acute. “They do not, in any way, touch upon the current situation of the Armenian-Turkish relations; they do not demand accountability and redress for the heinous crime against humanity. All those recognitions remain on the moral level.
Whereas Genocide has created the gravest regional problem in terms of the Armenian people’s secure existence. And since the early 1990s, the problem has been consistently ignored by the international community. And the speaker again expressed belief that “Armenia and Diaspora do not gain serious dividends as a result of pursuing this policy”.
The political scientist believes it’s time to shift the policy recognizing the Genocide to the plane of recognizing and raising the Armenian issue. And what is the Armenian issue? Both in the past and at present the heart of the matter has been the same – creating territorial and political conditions for the Armenian people to live in their homeland, i.e. the Armenian plateau, freely and independently. “The Armenian issue can have only one solution: restoration of the full Armenian statehood at least in such a vast territory where the long-term secure existence of the Armenian statehood will be guaranteed. In other words, the Armenian issue is the issue of the security of the Armenian people,” Mr. Ayvazyan said.
Going into detail, the speaker said that there were two preconditions required for the solution of the problem:
First: creating a full and strong Armenian statehood.
Second: territorial guarantees for the security and viability of that statehood. Furthermore, ensuring one of these guarantees without the other is unfeasible.
Thus, “The solution of the Armenian issue does not absolutely consist in the recognition of the Genocide of Armenians, as some people mistakenly believe. The Armenian issue is first of all a land issue.”
As to why we refuse to make claims for lands, this approach is unconceivable for the political scientist. And this happens in a situation when there are still acute territorial disputes among one another, in addition to a great number of states having land problems which continue for decades. And the speaker enumerated several cases familiar to the public: Turkey-Syria, Turkey-Greece, Turkey-Cyprus, Israel-Syria, Israel-Lebanon, Syria-Lebanon, India-Pakistan, Russia-Japan and so on.
“As you see, this dispute covers big and small, strong and weak states, but it doesn’t occur to any of them to waive their rights to and claims for lands ‘just for nothing’. As, unfortunately, is the leadership of Armenia trying to do,” A. Ayvazyan noted.
The speaker is surprised by the fact that the Armenian side does not advance its preconditions. “Turkey has advanced preconditions to us. We say we have no preconditions for Turkey. To what extent is such policy effective? As shown by the experience of the past 17 years, this policy is absolutely worthless. Whereas we ourselves should have a great number of preconditions and speak about them.”
- KIMA YEGHYAZARYAN
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spyurka-hay wrote:
Bravo! Bravo, Mr. Ayvazyan for finally articulating this issue so well. May our leaders everywhere take heed and acquire a little long-term vision for the survival and betterment of our nation and our people.
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- 775 Battle of Ardzni (Bagrevand).
- 1877 Tsar Alexander the Second starts the Russian-Turkish War in the Balkans and on the territory of ancient Armenia. The war ended with the victory of Russia.
- 1910 Death of Armenian writer Victoria Azanoor (Pompili). She wrote in Italian. Her books were translated into Armenian by Father Arsen Ghazikian.
- 1915 The arrest, exile and murder of the Armenian intellectuals (about 800) of Constantinople. The Turks start the implementation of their state plan for the Armenian Genocide. About one million Armenians are killed.
- 1937 The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia decides to dissolve the Committee of the Transcaucasian Countries.
- 1965 The Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide took place in about 25 countries out of respect for the memory of the innocent victims. A monument was unveiled in the Main Cathedral of Echmiadsin. The monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide in Montebello, California.
- 1968 The World Congress of Peace Movements, with the participation of organizations from 64 countries and of 16 international organizations, commemorated the Armenian Genocide.
- 1973 A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Marseilles, France.
- 1975 Opening of monuments commemorating the memory of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. They were in Bikfaya (Lebanon), Athens (Greece) and Milan (Italy).
- 1978 A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Lyon, France.
- 1984 A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide was placed in Alfortville, near Paris.
- 1987 An Armenian stone-cross dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1989 A monument dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide was unveiled in Sydney, Australia.
- 1990 President Bush issued a news release calling on all Americans to join with Armenians on April 24 in commemorating "the more than a million Armenian people who were victims".
- 1994 President Clinton issued a news release on April 24, to commemorate the "tragedy" that befell the Armenians in 1915.
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