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Sargsyan and his cronies have no right to make billions of dollars from the Karabakh conflict and the Turkish Genocide of one and a half million Armenians.

Armenia’s self-imposed President and his recently ‘rewarded for the Nicholas Sarkozy congratulations sham’ Minister of Foreign Affairs have been dashing from one meeting to another, on the one hand securing a secret payment from Azerbaijan for the peaceful return of Karabakh’s seven surrounding territories, and on the other, reaching new heights of betrayal by agreeing to an international commission that could decide there was no Turkish Genocide of one and a half million Armenians. Back in Armenia, Sargsyan and Nalbandian have been explaining their ground-breaking work and the marvelous benefits it will bring to the Republic.

With respect to Genocide, the Diaspora in America has spent many years lobbying for U.S. recognition, and in October 2007 there were positive signs that it was to be approved by the Senate. But yet again U.S. recognition was put on the back-burner by third party politics, this time sensitivities between Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan. With respect to resolution of the Karabakh conflict, in November 2007 Kocharian repeated his confidence in the Armenian armed forces and assured that Armenia would not capitulate on the issue of Karabakhi independence. At the same time, Sargsyan said that Yerevan has no inclination to establish relationships with Turkey.

But immediately after his 9th April inauguration, Sargsyan introduced his highly-anticipated post election U-turn and since then, with respect to these two strategically important and sensitive issues, the official Sargsyan line has jumped from one incomprehensible position to another.

Happily, the unscrupulous affair of how Armenia’s Karabakhi-led regime has been secretly negotiating a multi-billion dollar compensation for its agreement to a peaceful resolution of the Karabakh conflict is now opening up in the public domain. But Sargsyan cavorting from one overseas meeting to another trying to persuade Turkey's President to agree to an international commission to decide whether or not the 1915 Turkish Genocide of one and a half million Armenians actually happened is a new initiative of particular concern. Turkey has been trying to persuade Armenia to accept such a commission for several years, and to date Armenia has rejected the idea. Understandably, Sargsyan and Nalbandian have met considerable domestic pressure on this new initiative, so in an attempt to backtrack on their dastardly deeds, their commission was quickly downgraded to the study of a number of important Armenian – Turkish issues, possibly including Genocide.

The Sargsyan/Nalbandian team goes to great lengths to explain that Genocide and Karabakh are two entirely separate issues, and to add a sense of credibility to their deceit they have brought in their ‘Russian Experts’. But irrespective of what Russian experts may say, with respect to this particular string of misinformation Turkey makes its position clear that opening the Turkey/Armenia border is dependent on three factors: 1) recognition of Turkey’s territorial integrity; 2) giving up the false “genocide” claims and; 3) solution of Karabakh problem - liberation of 7 occupied territories and the solution of Nagorno Karabakh problem within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.

In practice, Sargsyan is trying to put together a comprehensive betrayal package for Armenia, which will firstly give back the surrounding territories and secondly have Genocide decided in favor of Turkey. In return Armenia's Karabakhi leaders will receive several billions of dollars in compensation, which they intend to keep secret from the rightful recipients, the peoples of Armenia and Karabakh.

There are many details in support of this claim, which follows on from the Karabakh betrayal claim I have been making for the past year. I will add those as comments to this post.