Tuesday, March 14 2017 15:34

ArmInfo.The tripartite alliance of Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan has not only political but also historical and legal bases, Hrachya Arzumanyan, Director of the  Stepanakert- based "Ashkharh" Center for Strategic Studies, expert in  military and national security, has told ArmInfo.   

The recent meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his  Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan covered a number of issues,  including creation of a tripartite alliance involving Russia, Turkey  and Azerbaijan.  

"The problem is that after the collapse of the USSR, the Moscow  Treaty remains the only document legitimizing our realities. It was a  tripartite treaty. The status quo around Artsakh and its independence  are something that won't be forgiven as long as that treaty is  valid," Arzumanyan says.   

The analyst thinks while the international community is returning to  the Sykes-Picot Agreement, Moscow and Ankara are doing their best to  catch hold of 1921 and the Moscow Treaty. He considers such actions  to be doomed to failure because the deconstruction of the 1921  agreements cannot be stopped.   

The analyst believes that the lack of relevant understanding of the  situation in Moscow and Ankara can lead to physical liquidation of  the neo-sultan and the neo-tsar. It is the understanding of the logic  of these processes that makes Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan natural  allies for the minutes preceding a disaster.    

He thinks under these conditions Armenia should start preparing for  either a throwback to Woodrow Wilson's arbitration or new Genocide.  However, given the impossibility to fulfil the latter due to the  irreversible consequences of the victory in Artsakh and the presence  of Diaspora, Armenian people have only one clear way out of the  current situation.      

According to the analyst, the only way out is to proclaim the Fourth  Republic in Armenia and declare it as the legal successor of the  First Republic. He stresses that there should be no Bolsheviks,  Dashnaks, etc. in the new power elite of Armenia. The projects of  Nazism, Kemalism, Bolshevism and other "isms" of XX century are  closed by the last Bolsheviks, Nazis, Kemalists. They should have no  place in XXI century.     

Signed without participation of the Azeri, Armenian and Georgian SSR,  the Moscow Treaty established the northeastern border of Turkey with  these countries, consolidating the territorial acquisitions of Turkey  under the Treaty of Alexandropol.