Мы сильнее, когда мы вместе.
Шикарное выступление Кена Хачикяна на встрече с Сержем Саргсяном в Нью-Йорке.Вот сейчас акценты расставлены, стороны определились с позициями и обозначили цели.
Hachikian to Sarkisian: How Dare You Squander Our Political
Capital?
Below is the text of ANCA chairman Ken Hachikian’s
comments during the meeting with President Serge Sarkisian
in New York on Oct. 3.
Mr. President:
The Armenian National Committee of America stands with
the overwhelming majority of the Armenian American
community in opposition to the intense pressure by
Turkey and its allies to force Armenia into accepting
a flawed and dangerous set of Protocols that threaten
the security of Armenia, surrender the rights of the
Armenian nation, and insult the dignity of the Armenian
people. Among the ANCA’s primary concerns, in
keeping with the basic American principles of fairness
and the enduring values of the Armenian nation, is
that Armenia, illegally blockaded by Turkey and under
intense economic and diplomatic pressure, is being
forced into accepting terms that threaten her interests,
rights, safety, and future – very notably in
the form of a proposed “historical commission”,
whatever its composition turns out to be. This provision,
a tactic long pursued by Ankara to cast doubt on the
historical record of the Armenian Genocide, is clearly
intended to serve Turkey’s drive to roll back
the growing tide of international recognition of this
crime against humanity. There can be, as a matter of
basic morality and political reality, no enduring relationship
between Armenia and Turkey that is not built upon the
foundation of Turkey’s acceptance of a true and
just resolution with respect to the Armenian Genocide.
Further, these Protocols outrageously surrender the
historical rights of the Armenian nation to a just
resolution of the Armenian Genocide. They also dangerously
undermine the right to freedom and self-determination
for the Nagorno Karabagh Republic.
Mr. President, your actions in pursuing these protocols
are naïve. They are reckless. And they are simply irresponsible.
Your assertion that they do not contain any preconditions
insults our intelligence. The requirement for a commission
of historians, which I might point out has been soundly
rejected by the International Association of Genocide
Scholars, the formal recognition of borders, and the
acknowledgement of territorial integrity without any
mention of self-determination are all preconditions
imposed and insisted upon by Turkey, which you have
unwisely accepted at the point of their blackmail of
the closed borders. These preconditions were and are
requirements of Turkey; they are the price you are
willing to pay to the Turkish blackmailers. Many countries
readily normalize relations without such one-sided
preconditions.
How dare you accede to Turkish blackmail when our forbearers
sacrificed so much and suffered at the hands of the
Turks, who to this very day deny the Genocide which
the rest of the world acknowledges?
How dare you attempt to squander the political capital
that so many have, at great sacrifice, built up over
the decades in capitals around the world? And make
no mistake, signing the Protocols would put at risk
that very capital. You have no moral right to do so.
You have no power to do so. And we will not allow you
to do so.
You cannot take away the rights of our nation and our
people simply because you view yourself as the savior
of our country. You are not saving our country; you
are relegating us to a subservient position to Turkey
while simply abandoning our rights to justice. Your
efforts are doomed to failure.
You will be remembered as the president who led our
country to a path of dependency, who foolishly bargained
away our lands, whose misjudgments led us to a weakened
status. If you go forward with these Protocols, your
legacy will be deeply flawed.
Do not attempt to hide behind the support of the minority
who blindly offer support for your initiatives. They
are not the true grassroots of the Diaspora. They simply
do not represent the majority of the community. In
the face of our vigilance in confronting successive
US administrations over their blind and unwavering
support for Turkey, their default position is to support
these policies of the US State Department. They are
the same people who surrendered Section 907 of the
Freedom Support Act, who supported the disastrous Turkish
Armenian Reconciliation Commission, and who supported
the nomination of Richard Hoagland, a morally reprehensible
genocide denier, to be ambassador to Armenia. They
no longer have political relevance in our community.
Don’t be seduced by their meaningless support.
Mr. President, you are making a grave mistake here.
I hope you have the wisdom to listen to your countrymen
and to back away from this disastrous agreement, before
you bring great harm to our country, to our people,
and to your presidency.
http://www.hairenik.com/weekly/2009/10/05/hachikian-to-sarkisian-how-dare-you-squander-our-political-capital/
Это выступление знаково по многим причинам:
1. Впервые диаспора разговаривает угрозами.
2. Впервые диаспора обещает вмешаться в политику Армении.
3. Критикуя администрацию Обамы и ГосДеп, с одной стороны,
и администрацию Саргсяна с другой АНКА выходит на тропу
войны со всеми, опираясь только и только на общественность.
4. Обозначен раскол в Диаспоре. Раскол, который значим
настолько, что для обозначения этого раскола Хачикян
срывается на шершавый язык советского плаката. Особенно
это заметно, когда он поносит своих оппонентов, и говорит
об отсутствии у них (оппонентов) поддержки.
5. Угрожая САС-у тем, что ему не позволят и все такое,
Кен Хачикян на самом-то деле объявляет Call for proposals
на финансирование политических и околополитических
конторок, чего не было за всю историю Армении.
6. Критика ГосДепа и администрации Обамы явно обозначает
окончательный разрыв АНКА с нынешней администрацией.
8. Следует обратить внимание на то, в каком тоне выдержаны
письмо того же Хачикяна Обаме, и в каком тоне он обращается
к САС-у.
9. Очень интересны постоянные апелляции Кена Хачикяна
к Армении, как к "our country".
Вот сейчас все окончательно встало на свои места. Окончательно
обозначены сторонники и противники.
Если быть до конца откровенным - я рад такому повороту
и накалу, который задан этим выступлением. Это правильно,
это интересно и это испытание. Для всех: в первую очередь
для диаспоры, во-вторую - для Армении и в-третьих для
САС-а лично.
На что я очень надеюсь, и во что очень хочу верить,
так это в то, что это противостояние сделает нас сильнее.