In a conversation with Aravot.am, the management expert Harutyun Mesrobyan made a reference to the statements of the Foreign Ministries of Armenia and Turkey regarding the case of the shepherd killed at the Armenian-Turkish border, and on the occasion of which the Armenia’s Foreign Ministry has applied a note to the Turkish side expressing regret over the incident, expressing hope that similar incidents will not happen again, and the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has sent a diplomatic note to Yerevan for killing of the trespasser shepherd, condemning Armenians for applying “unequal power”. – The interests, hobbies, old and new dividing lines concentrated in the whole region begin to vibrate and this process goes on all over the world. As our region has historically been one of the hottest points of humanity, therefore, we feel more of a shock here, and I connect all of this with the shocks available in the region. Armenia needs to be alert, but not adaptive policy that is conducted by our authorities. In other words, there should be an alertness, in the basis of which there is a national policy, but since we have no national policy, therefore only an adaptive policy is conducted. – The Foreign Ministry’s statement was not enough, we do not know whether the killed was a shepherd. In addition, why something in transferred to us through the Turkish Embassy to Georgia. – It seems that Armenia is conducting a balanced policy in this or that situation, but sometimes we do not discern the balanced policy from the policy away from misfortune and calamity. There are information in the press that this man was not a simple shepherd, it is likely that he intentionally has tried to cross the border and depending on what the situation is, we can decide whether it was an equal response, or not. And every time trying to mitigate, I do not support it. In addition, the Armenian side was not actually keeping our external border. We need to pay attention to the fact that our external borders are not controlled by our force structures, the Russian frontier opened the fire, and why there is no response from that side. There is a question. In fact, the border with Armenia is actually controlled by Russian forces, but only Armenia’s Foreign Ministry is speaking.
Eva HAKOBYAN
