The Armenian leaders in Yerevan, such as President Robert Kocharyan, ex-member of the Azerbaijan Communist Party; Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian (one world orator); “Defense” Minister Serg Sarkisyan (of Monte Carlo Casino fame); and Artur Baghdasaryan, sly speaker of Parliament, have placed Armenia’s destiny in jeopardy.

On October 21, 2003 when addressing the international conference “Armenia on the way to Europe,” held in Yerevan, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian stated: “that having entered the Council of Europe, Armenia had fulfilled only the minimum of what was necessary to register membership of this organization. First of all, it is necessary for society to realize the fact that Armenia is a part of Europe, and integration has no alternatives. We must continue on our path and bring our state and its society to a logical end, becoming a full member of the European family.”

Since then Armenia has become a member of the Council of Europe as well as having close relations with the European Union and the Turkish loving West. This love affair of Oskanian’s with the artificially created European organizations has done nothing but created demands upon Armenia as to how they must govern their country. He is in essence dealing with the very entities that want to eliminate independent nations. In the meantime, Armenia’s brilliant leaders have accepted free money from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank which has retarded Armenia’s economy.

For many years Armenia’s government has been having secret, behind the scenes discussions with masters of the world, willing to return hard won security of Nagorno Kharabagh for a promised (illusionary) peace. It has already been decided that the areas of Kelbajar, Fizuli, Dzhebrail, and Zangelan will be returned to Azerbaijan. If one were to study a map of present Kharabagh, they would find that those areas are west and southeast of Kharabagh. Azerbaijan refugees together with armed forces would occupy those lands. In the future, it would be ideal for attacking Kharabagh from every angle. As an example, Bosnia-Albanian Turks disregarded the Dayton Accord Agreement signed on October 5, 1995 which included multinational military implementation forces under the command of NATO. The Albanians continued killing Christian Serbs while the so-called peace keepers did nothing.

The president of Kharabagh, Arkady Ghoukassian, has consistently stated that there can be no agreement without Kharabagh’s involvement. If there are strong outcries from patriots upon the conclusion of signing the agreement, the government will say”the world powers forced us to sign.” It now seems that president Ghoukassian has been convinced by Yerevan to accept the agreement, because if he does not, the consequences would be more dangerous in the future. The truth is that after they return the lands, the consequences will be even sadder than dangerous. Would any Armenian in his right mind be willing to give ancient Armenian soil for a piece of paper with writing on it?

A number of years ago British Baroness Caroline Cox wrote an Open Letter to the Armenian People. Just a few quotes of that open letter would be very enlightening pertaining to present events. She stated:

“I write this letter as someone who has great love and admiration for the Armenian people. It is this love which compels me to raise the alarm.”

“A decade after regaining its independence, Armenia might be in such great danger that its independence and very existence may be threatened. The hope created by negotiations with Azerbaijan currently being pursued by the Armenian Government is deceptive. The Islamist forces in the Caucasus are determined decisively to ‘resolve’ the ‘problems’ of Armenia and Kharabagh by force. Nobody, least of all Azerbaijan and Turkey, will stand in their way. Given the enormity of this threat and the complexities of the international political and economic interests, it is imperative that the Armenian Diaspora rally urgently to help the homeland before it is too late. It is far more important, and a far greater challenge, to act now to prevent another genocide from being unleashed than later to mourn yet another holocaust.”

“The present leadership of Armenia is under tremendous pressure to strike a deal and seems to be succumbing to the point of betraying all those who shed their blood or who sacrificed their loved ones for Artsakh. Are you going to allow your political leaders to give away lands of Southern Armenia? Are you going to give away the buffer zone, which has protected your people throughout these years of cease-fire? Are you going to allow Artsakh to be returned to a precarious and vulnerable status, with nothing achieved for all the blood that has been shed?”

“If the present course of events is not stopped, your leadership in Yerevan will have fatally weakened and betrayed your country. You will be unable to defend yourself against those who proclaim their determination to conquer and to achieve an Islamist Caucasus; and all those who gave their lives for your historic land, will have died in vain.”

Has not the Armenian Government questioned Caroline Cox as to the sources of her thoughts?

It has always been said, and has been proven to be true: when you stand strong though you are small, you are respected. When you speak from a position of weakness, you are detested.

God Bless Hayastan.

Ardavast Avakian
January 30, 2006