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Armenia has to accept the new reality in the South Caucasus, the
Director of the Institute for Political Studies, Sergey Markov told
'The main option that Armenian leadership has been counting on
and is counting on is that someone else should fight for Armenian
interests in Karabakh. They, of course, expected that Russia would
fight for Armenia since Armenia is a member of the CSTO and a
member Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC),' he said.
'Actually, Armenia joined these organizations for this, so that
Russia would be for it in the Karabakh conflict. But Russia refused
to fight for Armenia and takes a clear neutral position. Now the
Russian position causes such hatred in the leadership of Armenia
that it constantly accuses Russia of a pro-Azerbaijani position.
Armenia's allies, such as French President Emmanuel Macron, also
accuse Russia of a pro-Azerbaijani position. In fact, Russia's
position is neutral and fair,' Makarov stated.
According to him, the second option that Armenian tried to find
is that France will first send its observers and then its
servicemen to Karabakh.
'On one hand, France is supporting Armenia as much as possible,
on the other hand, I believe that Armenian leadership and society
guess that France will not send its own servicemen to fight for
Armenian interest against the Azerbaijani army in Karabakh,'
Makarov said.
That is, France will try to take the side of Armenia in
diplomatic negotiations to help politically and diplomatically,
however, militarily the country will not go to fight for Armenia.
This understanding hangs like a heavy shadow over Armenia,' he
added.
Makarov noted that there is another option, that Armenia is
trying to use is to achieve high autonomy for Armenian society in
Karabakh, such that this autonomy is almost independent.
'But this is impossible, Azerbaijan does not want to give any
separate status to the Armenian community of Karabakh. Azerbaijan
insists that all nations and peoples in the country enjoy the same
rights,' he said.
Makarov stressed that Russians, Jews and many other
representatives of other nationalities live in Azerbaijan and they
all have equal rights.
'However, Armenian society puts itself above all other peoples.
Such ultra-nationalism dominates them and leads them to a dead end.
Armenians have accustomed themselves to the fact that they cannot
live peacefully together with the Azerbaijanis, therefore they
cannot integrate into Azerbaijani society. They convinced
themselves that the Azerbaijanis are the enemies of the Armenians,
and therefore they cannot live together. But this is a huge mistake
- the Azerbaijanis are not the enemies of the Armenians at all,' he
informed.
'Armenians have lived as part of Azerbaijan for many decades.
Armenia must accept - there will be no autonomy. It's necessary to
discuss the stages of complete integration of the Armenian
community of Karabakh into Azerbaijan on general terms, like other
peoples. Armenian society must accept they are not people of the
first class in comparison with other people in general. And that
the Armenian community of Azerbaijan should not have special
privileges in comparison with national communities of other peoples
in Azerbaijan,' Makarov concluded.
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