New Karabakh peace deal is condemned to fail

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan keep announcing a deal is imminent. But whether or not they reach an agreement, there will never be peace here.

BY RAFFI K. HOVANNISIAN
Armenia’s first minister of foreign affairs,
is 
the founding chairman of the Heritage Party.

«Սա է ժառանգությունը քո». Սբ․ Պատարագ

One hundred and five years ago, the First was proclaimed.

Honor and glory to its founders, guardians and protectors, all devoted heirs—generation after generation. Without it, fragile and deficient but heroic, long-suffering but enlightened, unprepared for the incessant series of blows from inside and out but still strong in spirit, we would not have had  our twin worlds of the Republic of Armenia and our standard-bearer Artsakh—we ourselves would not have existed  even on this last state frontline of hope representing a sliver of our larger Homeland.

ՇՈՒՇԻՆ ՀԱՅՐԵՆԻՔ Է ԵՎ՝ ՀԱՎԵՐԺՈՂ. Րաֆֆի Կ. Հովհաննիսյան

Glory to its liberators, to those who made it a fertile hearth and gave it blood of life, and to its defenders!

Even for thirty years we were unable to preserve her—presidents and premiers, ministers and generals, officials both native and from the diaspora.

How arrogant and megalomaniac, greedy and gluttonous, myopic and self-taken were we, the unworthy standard-bearers, entrusted with the responsibility for national rights and state interest.

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