HERITAGE’S FRONTLINE:

A RESOLUTION
FOR ARMENIA AND THE ARMENIAN PEOPLE

10 July 2010
Yerevan

1. The Patrimony is one and indivisible.

2. The sovereign Nation-State declared in one corner of the ancestral homeland recognizes republican Turkey and its integrity subject to Woodrow Wilson’s arbitral award as issued under U.S. presidential seal in November 1920. A full and final regulation of all bilateral matters deriving therefrom is a material precondition to an equitable and enduring resolution in the case of Artsakh and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations in general. There is no statute on limitations on the crime of Genocide and National Dispossession, however or whenever it has been committed and internationally defined.

3. The nation-state recognizes both the Republic of Mountainous Karabagh, as constitutionally constituted, and republican Azerbaijan and its integrity subject to its own recognition of the Artsakh republic as well as release from occupation of the historic heartlands of Shahumian, Getashen-Martunashen, Artsvashen, and Nakhichevan. No other territorial adjustment shall be considered or executed until the foregoing takes complete effect.

4. The nation-state recognizes republican Georgia as an important neighboring country which, in its own turn, acknowledges that Javakhk is part and parcel of the Patrimony and of their common security. The character of their reciprocal relationship, moreover, will turn on the efficacy of measures undertaken to demonstrate this understanding as well as to ensure fundamental freedoms for the Georgian-Armenian community and its institutions.

5. The nation-state respects the partnership of Iran, Russia, China, the European Union and the United States, and expects their respect for its absolute sovereignty and the rightful integrity of its heritage.

6. The nation-state, at Ararat and in dispersion, further recognizes that the bedrock of the points above and below is its own immediate and comprehensive transformation into a modern, democratic, and self-confident Republic where the law rules, rights are revered, political prisoners are precluded, and the citizen is crown. Justice in the world entails justice at home.

7. In direct consequence and for the sake of generations to come, the nation-state notes with gratitude the services rendered by all of its presidents, civil and military officials, and rank-and-file patriots, and at once requires each of them to stand equally before the rule of law. The territories, properties, enterprises, opportunities, and human lives heretofore privatized, expropriated, or sacrificed by their abuse of power must be accounted for to the fullest extent of the very same law.

8. For the first time in their long history, Armenia and its people must urgently conduct true elections for their presidency, legislature and, by extension, a really independent judiciary. Failing this, there is no national agenda, nor a manifest destiny, and so our birthright has already been squandered for good.

9. The nation-state, its every citizen, and no one else are responsible, without excuse or exception, for the burdens and blessings of their collective future.