Re: Current Condition of Armenia
Yeah, the AKP party is afraid that supporting protocols will harm its elections chances, so naturally it has taken a hard stance against them. Though if they want to get serious with EU membership, then they will have to approve the protocols - and approve them according to the original conditions, that were agreed upon.
It will be greatly harmed if a commission is created between us and turks to discuss it. There are many economic benefits for us in opening such a border, of course, but the key thing is that it is done prudently - we cannot trust the Turks, and must be suspicious of their motives, especially when it comes to genocide commissions with them.
Of course Turkey can do without open borders, but the fact of the matter is there are so many external powers pressuring Turkey, that it may eventually cave in. There's going to be a clash between the Turkish liberals who want EU and open borders, and Turkish nationalists who want strong relations with Baku and are sceptical of the West's intentions.
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Austria is an interesting country in term of foreign relations, especially there relations with Iran which are very close. You would think, they are a EU country in central Europe their relations wouldn't be good, but they actually are. Economic realtions between the two are flourishing, Austria has often rejected additional sanctions on Iran and been lenient on Iran in international settings, it has even supplied Iranian Revolutionary Guard with advanced Austrian rifles, namley snipers, which were used in Iraq! From wikileaks, we see the West, especially US and even Germany, are displeased with Austria and have pressured it to stop its relations with Iran, but Austria has effectively said f*ck you, we do what we want, we are not your puppet! I like the independent thinking of Austria. (plus they are not part of NATO and are a permanently neutral country).
Some interesting articles:
wikileaks about US-Austria tensions
and finally, Nalbandian is in Vienna and President of Austria will be visiting
Originally posted by Armanen
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The Genocide issue will not be lost if Armenia has open borders with turkey. Open borders would also lesson georgia's role in the Armenian economy, and provide our oligarchs more room to make investments, I think this would only help Armenia.
Of course turkey has some things to gain from open borders but remember, they want to keep the kurds under foot, and a more developed eastern turkey may not be fully in their interest. Also, the turkish public is not much less keen on joining the EU than a few years ago and the dominant players of the EU, Germany & France are dead set against turkish membership, not to mention Cyprus and Austria. Overall thought turkey would rather keep Armenia isolated and not strain relations with baku.
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Austria is an interesting country in term of foreign relations, especially there relations with Iran which are very close. You would think, they are a EU country in central Europe their relations wouldn't be good, but they actually are. Economic realtions between the two are flourishing, Austria has often rejected additional sanctions on Iran and been lenient on Iran in international settings, it has even supplied Iranian Revolutionary Guard with advanced Austrian rifles, namley snipers, which were used in Iraq! From wikileaks, we see the West, especially US and even Germany, are displeased with Austria and have pressured it to stop its relations with Iran, but Austria has effectively said f*ck you, we do what we want, we are not your puppet! I like the independent thinking of Austria. (plus they are not part of NATO and are a permanently neutral country).
Some interesting articles:
wikileaks about US-Austria tensions
and finally, Nalbandian is in Vienna and President of Austria will be visiting
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