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Vahan Hovannisian, a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), explains to “Hayots Ashkhar” why his party has issued no statements on the latest serious military incident in Nagorno-Karabakh. “It’s the army that should respond,” he says. “If there is a general mobilization, all of us will go to the frontline,” adds Hovannisian. “But again, that must be done at the state level.”

“I don’t want to evaluate the situation too pessimistically, even though I see such a likelihood [of another war with Azerbaijan,]” another opposition politician, Hovannes Hovannisian, tells “Aravot.” “The reason is that the Armenian and especially Azerbaijani sides as well as the international community and the Minsk Group co-chairs are playing a game whose purpose is not to resolve the conflict or reconcile the two societies … but to further big powers’ geopolitical interests in the region. Unfortunately, due to these authorities, Armenia has become a small exchange coin in the hands of those players.”

“Haykakan Zhamanak” compares the conflicts over Karabakh and South Ossetia. “In the Georgian-Ossetian war, the loser was not so much the Georgian army as the Georgian diplomacy,” editorializes the paper. “The Georgian diplomacy did not manage to create a situation that would preclude Russia intervention in the war in South Ossetia and Georgia’s defeat was thus assured.” The paper wonders if the Armenian diplomacy would be able to prevent Turkey’s intervention in a new Armenian-Azerbaijani war. “The question is a rhetorical one, at least for now,” it says. “But one can not fail to note that the [Turkish-Armenian] football diplomacy has increased, rather than decreased, the possibility of Turkish intervention in a possible Armenian-Azerbaijani war.”

“In the event of a new war, the victims will be the wretched and unprotected, who have no levers to influence big politics,” writes “Hraparak.” “So nothing depends on their views and attitudes. One could do a fantastic experiment: to send the sons of those who have a decisive say on the Karabakh settlement issue to war and see whether they would declare, with the same Olympic serenity, that negotiations are continuing, that we have nothing to give away and nowhere to rush, and that this no-war-no-peace situation is beneficial for us.”

(Tigran Avetisian)
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