On Sunday the Crimea’s population held a referendum and under the attentive control and in the presence of the Russian army 97 per cent of the population of Ukraine’s Crimea voted for joining Russia. Russia recognized the vote immediately. However, the international community did not recognize the vote results as Western powers claim it is annexation from Ukraine with armed force.
The idea that the world is afraid of not Russia’s power but Putin’s powerlessness concerns the existing situation when Russia is losing its geopolitical influence, which can become a factor influencing Putin’s psychological and emotional situation and behavior. When people with such huge power fall into a situation like this or panic, they can do anything. Russia is in a similar situation now, and one can expect anything from Russia. Putin is unpredictable and can be dangerous.
Every politician has the right to express his own opinions. In this case we are speaking about the ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan. I don’t share this opinion myself and think that this process can be easily stopped and retrieved.
Today we are all following the activities taking place in Ukraine. We have known that Russia and Ukraine have had strong brotherly relations for centuries, which is no obstacle for Russia to deploy its troops in the territory of Ukraine and in Crimea particularly. And this process creates new separating lines and this is a very dangerous process. At some point this threat existed during the Russian-Georgian war when Armenia should have expressed its standpoint regarding the military actions based on the fact that is a member state of the Collective Security Pact.
The Armenian authorities are not speaking anything about the Ukrainian crisis, and the Armenian society does not know whether our government endorses the Ukrainian interim government that is supported by the entire civilized world,” said ANM party board member Ararat Zurabyan to 168 Zham.
“I am not surprised that Tsarukyan is concerned about the health of certain people. And he has been doing a great job for the past ten years because he really wants to have a healthy and strong power. I am pleasantly surprised by the concerns of Levon Zurabyan. So I’d like to rush to console him by saying that within the government our organs work well fully and partly…”
Judging from the visit of Katherine Ashton to Iran we may point out a few important developments. The first one shows that the improvement of relations between the west and Iran started in Geneva. The success started when the EU goes to Iran to meet Iranians instead of meeting them in Switzerland. Ashton stated during her visit that there is progress in relations but it would be much more difficult to come to a final agreement with Iran.
Following the demonstration of the Armenian National Congress on March 1 and processes in Ukraine, in Armenia people did not pay due attention to US Ambassador John Heffern’s announcement in an interview with Armenpress, which contains several important messages.
“Public discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation. But do we know where we are going? In my life, I have seen four wars begun with great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to end and from three of which we withdrew unilaterally. The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins.
The government would claim the opposite and they’d assure that the complementary politics continues and that Armenia was wise in that regard. But the recent processes in the international arena come to prove the opposite. One of the best indexes was the recent session of the European People’s Party in Dublin, where the Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan made a speech. And in his speech he emphasized that even though Armenia is moving towards the CU it also wises to move in the direction of the EU.
