Foreign Policy Without Strategy

FOREIGN POLICY WITHOUT STRATEGY

Story from Lragir.am News:

Published: 11:54:45 – 06/06/2012

Karabakh’s president Bako Sahakyan convened a Security Council
meeting yesterday. Do you think it was dedicated to the situation
on the frontline? No. They discussed the formation of headquarters
for harvest.

Why are the Security Council meetings convened on harvest issues
instead of defense or foreign policies?

Why is it necessary to convene a Security Council meeting to discuss
such issues? Isn’t there a ministry of agriculture in Karabakh or the
government? Can’t these issues be regulated through these two agencies?

Perhaps, it is impossible since in Karabakh everything is out of its
place. The MFA is stuck in the 1988 realities and it can’t reach the
world dynamics, the Security Council is handling the harvest issues,
while the Security Service is seeking dissidents cutting the public
opinion as grass.

The whole world is speaking about the escalation between Armenia and
Azerbaijan, and the Security Soviet of Karabakh is discussing harvest
issues. The Karabakh authorities are trying to show that Karabakh is
peaceful, it has already solved its issues and does not care for the
opinion of the others.

However, against the background of the situation in the region,
this seems as dilettantism or ostrich policy. How can Karabakh not
react to the escalation in the region? Why hasn’t the NKR MFA issued
a condemning statement in address of Azerbaijan in connection with
the diversion attacks?

Why doesn’t the NKR MFA fulfill at least its information function
letting the world know about Karabakh’s position not on the past
events which are known to the acting minister, but on the current
ones? Let alone initiatives.

Karabakh needs to work out a new information policy which should
become a part of the new foreign political strategy. But today,
little is known on such strategy, but it is necessary like blood for
the issuing opinion in relation to it and putting forward initiatives.

Otherwise this mockery will be continued.