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.