WHEN AZERBAIJAN ATTACKS ARMENIA
Haikazn Ghahriyan, Editor-in-Chief
Comments – Thursday, 13 March 2014, 13:58
Ukraine intends to leave the CIS. Ukraine’s foreign minister explained
that this post-Soviet organization cannot even help its two members
overcome their disagreement. Moreover, this year Ukraine co-chairs
the CIS and has called its executive body to hold an extraordinary
session on Crimea. However, the CIS members did not even respond to it.
One can understand the concerns of the foreign minister of Ukraine.
The CIS did not exist in reality, as Lukashenko said, it has a
miserable experience. This organization was set up after the collapse
of the Soviet Union to maintain “economic, cultural and other links”
but it rather serves as a sign for Russia to maintain its dominance
in the post-Soviet space and not to let the post-Soviet states go.
The CIS has a miserable experience. Most of its members have conflicts
with one another and a number of unresolved problems. There are more
controversies than agreements.
Armenia is also a CIS member and is in a conflict with Azerbaijan. CIS
and CSTO members Russia and Belarus supply weapons to Azerbaijan.
Georgia left CIS for the same rationale as Ukraine.
Ukraine’s leave is symbolic because Ukraine was one of the parties
to the Belovezh agreement with Russia and Belarus. At that time
dissolution of the USSR and establishment of the CIS was announced.
Many note that developments in Ukraine mark the second stage of
collapse of the empire. In this stage Russia is trying to get as much
as it can because it is unable to prevent the process of collapse. In
addition, considering the nature of policy conducted by the empire
for decades, resumption of “frozen” conflicts should not be ruled
out. And the CIS turns out to be an excellent sign for this.
Russia’s strategic partner, Azerbaijan, will also keep to the policy
of its “younger brother” because the second stage of collapse of the
empire is a “favorable” period. Although Azerbaijan does not take
part in any post-Soviet “integration” project, it does not leave the
CIS because it knows that the CIS and Russia will support it like in
the past two decades.
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