The incursion of Azerbaijani subdivisions into the Sev Lich section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border on May 12th at a depth of 3.5 km in the sovereign territory of Armenia created unprecedented tension, making it an issue on the agenda of international diplomacy. Official Yerevan has set in motion all the international agreements in bilateral and multilateral formats that have “collected” for decades with Russia, the CSTO, and the OSCE. However, the problem remains unresolved.
The process also inadvertently became a process of lustration for all thirty years of ideas regarding security in Armenia, the legal-contractual bases arising from it, and the state of their “health.” It was the lustration that some people were shocked to hear about so that it would not happen suddenly. But it is happening, including the pre-election logic of the post-war processes and its organic continuation already inside Armenia.
What caused the moment of truth in Syunik? To begin, the fact that the security policies of Armenia are non-existent, unfruitful, and fake, and the alleged guarantees that have been collected over the span of thirty years are not guarantees at all. As they say, those guarantees were “weighed and found to be very light.”
Supposedly, we have joined a “military alliance” that did not carry out an article-by-article assessment of everything happening at the Armenian border to date, and it has become clear that we have no allies there. And the bilateral “guarantees” about Russia are lighter than the paper on which they are written because in practice, these guarantees seem to be more in favor of our adversary than of us. Rather, it does not even concern us, it is not about us.
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The dynamics and logic of the information-misinformation flows generated by the Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Russian militaries over the trilateral talks are very remarkable. This negotiation process, which is extremely sensitive and also extremely dangerous from the point of view of war and peace, which has also been going on for several days, at least requires a proper degree of secrecy. However, come to see that on Sunday evening, the information on the course of those negotiations became available to certain parliamentary deputies, individual party figures who wish to participate in the elections, who have announced to us what is happening in those negotiations, what was said, and “what the negotiators sold the homeland in exchange for,” moreover, with their own “information.” What is this if not sabotage against one’s own country, which becomes possible every time in conditions of absolute tolerance? And surprisingly, this circle of subversive activity “coincidentally” coincides with the circle of advocates of “even deeper relations with Russia,” moreover, one by one…
And so, it is obvious that Russia and Turkey today, through the mouth located in Baku, demand the so-called “Zangezur Corridor” from Armenia, which Armenian sovereignty and control will not apply to, but the Russian side will take that responsibility upon itself in a “brotherly” way. In addition to the uncertainty of Artsakh’s status, the Russian side needs another “uncertainty” for its success, so that after minimizing Armenia’s influence, the Russians will come and “save” Syunik in the same spirit. That is allegedly the uncertainty of the borders. What Aliyev demands from us without being reprimanded by our “centuries-old friend” is the same as what Hitler demanded from Poland in 1939, the so-called “Danzig Corridor.” The Nazi leader also threatened the Poles that “if it does not happen peacefully, it will be done by force.” Naturally, Hitler would not have been so arrogant if he had not reached an agreement with the Bolshevik terrorist state, which Poland considered to be the “ugly child of the Treaty of Versailles,” and the Danzig Corridor, which could also continue to the Nazi Reich’s “Nakhichevan,” Eastern Prussia, had another beneficiary- Stalin’s hordes. (Here’s where these sick reactions to the history of World War II in the Kremlin come from, here’s where the Stalin-Hitler pact’s rehabilitation comes from, here’s where the Russian ambassador’s disgusting speech comes from at the Lenin-Ataturk pact’s centenary celebrations, and here’s why they “fell ill” and became hysterical after hearing Nzhdeh’s name in Moscow and Baku).
Today, the “roof” of Aliyev’s impudence is the same. Both Turkey and our “centuries-old friend” are open beneficiaries of this “Zangezur Corridor,” for which all post-Soviet countries are “ugly children of the Belavezha Accords” that must be “returned to the Russian world in spite of the immoral West.” Aliyev’s case is also clear. His idea-fix remains the Armenian Genocide in the South Caucasus. He said in an open text that “our enemy is Armenians across the world,” and it is this idea-fix that our “age-old friend” exploits and strives to “save” us from.
Official Yerevan has announced openly, “No corridor.” We are in favor of opening all forms of communication and an open region, but that cannot take place at the expense of the Republic of Armenia’s sovereignty. It cannot take place as a result of Armenian genocide, ethnic cleansing, or the implentation of other Nazi methods.
Armenia is facing the imperative of the past way of rethinking and reevaluating. We do not need chains. We need new allies and new alliances. We need a new quality state without openly functioning fifth columns. This is the only formula for dignified peace in the region and the survival of a free and independent Armenian state.
Ruben Mehrabyan
