The other day the second series of the staging labelled ‘Global Armenian Summit’ was performed in Yerevan. Just like the first series of production organised by the Zareh Sinanyan-led agency, the second edition remained completely unrelated to its own name as it was neither worldwide, nor even more so Armenian. For one thing, it gathered not those representatives of the various parts of the heterogeneous and fragmented Armenian Spyurk (communities abroad), but only those whose participation could be secured and who support or at least do not expressly reject Pashinyan’s agenda of turning Armenia into a Turkish-Azerbaijani colony and sealing the Armenian Question once and for all, framed in the guise of ‘the peace agenda’. Otherwise, it is plainly inconceivable that any dignified representative of Spyurk would attend an event that seeks to feign ties to that very Spyurk.
Two, it cannot be Armenian, as this platform is used not to discuss and solve the deadly problems hanging over the Armenian people and the remnants of the Armenian statehood with the sword of Damocles by shaping approaches stemming from national interests (suffice to skim through the agenda of the event), but solely resembles yet another press conference of Pashinyan and his team, to which representatives of Spyurk were summoned to listen carefully and learn what ‘real Armenia’ is from now on, to learn what the new rules of the game are in relations with overseas communities within the framework of Pashinyan’s ‘peace agenda’, and that under such circumstances it is now even laughable, not just naive, to mention the ‘Armenia-Spyurk-Artsakh’ trinity, since it is with its very units’ light hand that Artsakh has been treacherously surrendered, its Armenian population has been expelled from their homes, Armenia is no longer the former ‘historical’ Armenia they knew, but it is now the ‘real’ Armenia instead, and that the best thing that Spyurk can do for Nikol’s ‘real Armenia’ is not to impede it on its way to a glorious future, i.e. its colonisation.
Accordingly, from the standpoint of Pashinyan and his temporisers, this assemblage can be qualified as quite a success. For in his typical commonplace language he made plain to the representatives of Spyurk those simple truths which they even though they had realised in recent years, but were scared to admit to themselves.
The principal of these straightforward truths was that Armenia henceforth officially abdicates its responsibility for the advocacy and protection of the interests of the Armenians (albeit it has never actually assumed it), and neither the fate of the Artsakh Armenians, nor Armenian history and culture, nor the preservation of national identity, nor the restoration of historical justice for the Armenian people who became exiles and lost their historical homeland as a result of the Armenian Genocide, nor the systematisation of Spyurk and the fulfilment of its potential are henceforth among the concerns of ‘real Armenia’. The raison d’être and mission of ‘real Armenia’ will from now on be nothing but to sustain the physical existence and satiety of the citizens living on its 29,743 sq. km. territory. According to Pashinyan, it is only a full stomach that can compel Armenians to live and create in their own homeland, because in his vision, it is the ‘ubi panis ibi patria’ (‘where there is bread, there is my country’) principle that lies at the heart of our collective consciousness. Oh, and one more thing: ‘real Armenia’ will ensure the right of its citizens to happiness, which is same as having an opportunity to go to a live concert anywhere, anytime. What else do the people want if not bread and circuses?
The subsequent plain truth remains that the acting Armenian authorities are ready to give up everything and do whatever it takes for the sake of an imaginary ‘peace’, including rewriting Armenian history to please their new partners – Turkey and Azerbaijan. After all, in ‘real Armenia’ the security guarantor is not the strong Armenian army, but ‘peace’. It was made clear from the Prime Minister’s speech that particularly the matter of the Armenian Genocide and the process of its international recognition as well as all those figures (Tigran the Great, Garegin Nzhdeh, Monte Melkonyan) and events (the Greater Armenia, the Battle of Sardarapat, and the liberation of Artsakh) that breed in the Armenian people ‘imperialistic’ love for the Motherland are in the crosshairs. Furthermore, Pashinyan and his proxies did not hesitate to accuse Spyurk of perceiving Armenia as an outpost for the defence of Armenian interests and the restoration of historical justice, thus allegedly making Armenia a legitimate military target for Turkey and Azerbaijan.
Indeed, the Armenian authorities are willing to attain the establishment of diplomatic relations and the opening of the land border at any cost, and yes, by this ‘any cost’ is also assumed to ‘wash their hands’ of the claims related to the recognition and elimination of the consequences of the Armenian Genocide. Yes, they are open to surrendering everything for the sake of ‘peace’ with Azerbaijan, and by this ‘everything’ they mean the renunciation of any notion of the returning of the occupied territories of Armenia (what do we need 200 sq. km. of territory, we are quite happy without them?). To give a corridor to Azerbaijan through the Republic of Armenia, to forget that Artsakh is Armenian, and to force Artsakh Armenians to do the same. Curiously, Pashinyan’s speech was heeded and nodded to by the Spyurk representatives attending the staging. This begs the question: were there any of those who campaigned against signing the protocols between Armenia and Turkey in 2009? The way Spyurk reacts to that staging exploiting its name and voicing anti-state and anti-national statements will be another indicator of Armenian immunodeficiency.
