Wikileaks strengthened Armenia’s positions?
""Apology" will be the most frequently used word for U.S. diplomats in the wake of the Wikileaks releases," says Armenian American political scientist Richard Giragosian.
The Armenian Center for National and International Studies today organized a discussion on the significance of the U.S. Department of State's confidential documents released by Wikileaks. The analyst assured that U.S. security is not at risk.
"The U.S. has found itself in a disgraceful situation, but in diplomacy, a disgraceful situation is different from danger. I think from now on foreign diplomats will no longer be honest with U.S. diplomats."
Giragosian says Turkey and Azerbaijan are in a bad situation, but not Armenia. "The documents go to show that Turkey was to blame for the failed Armenian-Turkish relations."
Giragosian says there is only document that is not desirable for Armenia and that is the document related to selling weapons to Iran, which was an opportunity for the U.S. to apply a sanction against Armenia. "It was a special test for Armenia and it could be said that Armenia successfully passed that test. Armenia was able to give a literate response to the U.S. about what happened."
What motivates Giragosian is the fact that the released documents go to show that the Armenian authorities are not preparing to sell Nagorno-Karabakh.
Attending today's discussion was former NKR MP Gegham Baghdasaryan. Baghdasaryan partially agreed with Giragosian and advised not to rush in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution since Wikileaks has only released some of the 17,000 documents related to Armenia.
"Generally speaking, it is wrong to say "the NKR is being sold or not sold". Unfortunately, the Armenian authorities are currently using the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to keep power," said Baghdasaryan.
Gegham Baghdasaryan deemed it necessary to stress once again that the fate of the NKR should not be linked to the Armenian government's policy.
As far as the Wikileaks releases are concerned, Baghdasaryan says he will express his final opinion after the release of new confidential documents.
