Armenia's debt compensated

In his interview to ARMENIA Today deputy chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia, member of Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsutun Grayr Karapetyan complained about the absence of mutuality from Ankara in the improvement of Armenian-Turkish relations. "From our side we have made some steps: the President of Armenia invited the Turkish counterpart for the football match, creating a basis of dialogue. But we have not yet seen the response step. Borders are not opened, there is no railway communication and economic and political blocade continues.

The Armenian deputy seems to consider it possible to exchange an invitation of the Turkish president for the "decisive" football match for the opening of border and resumption of railway communication with this country. As is known, in exchange for opening borders Ankara had demanded from Yerevan to withdraw its armed forces from the occupied lands of Azerbaijan and to disavow ideas of recognition of 1915 "genocide" and not a free ticket for insignificant football match. Is it correct to put on the scales the invitation for an entertaining event at the Razdan stadium and all these interesting things. In the reality, Karapetyan is deeply mistaken speaking of the response step of Ankara-president Gul returned the debt, inviting his Armenian counterpart to watch the same football match in Turkey. Well, again misunderstanding...

"Again the Armenian-Turkish relations are determined by relations with a third country - Azerbaijan that contradicts to all international norms", complains the Dashnak, having his specific understanding of the phrase "international norms". At the same time, he is hardly asking themselves a question how the presence of the armed forces of his country in the territory of another state can correspond to international norms. By invading a third country - Poland on September 1 of 1939 Germany also spoiled its relations with Great Britain and France, getting in response a declaration of war to it. Does Karapetyan consider the deterioration of relations between the allies and nazy Germany because of a "third state" "contradicting to all international norms" of that time? It was like that when Saddam Husein also spoiled relations with almost all world community because of a "third country" Kuwait in 1989. And nothing happened, no one in the world started to condemn the world community because of interference in "just bilateral" Iraqi-Kuwait relations and violation of "all international norms". Economic sanctions are a powerful and legal means of pressure on aggressor state and Turkey was right to use it.

Meanwhile, the Turkish Premier put an end to this issue announcing at a press conference by results of G-20 summit that "the Turkish-Armenian border" will not open until the resolving of the Karabakh conflict".

Vugar Seidov
AzerTac, Berlin