The Armenians always believed that the Moscow and Kars agreements concluded with violation of norms of international law should be denounced. Yerevan expects appropriate initiative from Moscow.
However, on Monday the representative of the Russian Institute of CIS countries, political scientist Mikhail Alexandrov said that Moscow had to remind the official Tbilisi about the agreements defining the status of Adzharia. Moscow and Kars agreements suppose that Russia and Turkey be the warrantors of the Adzharian autonomy. He suggests using this as an ”international-legal key factor” for making pressure on Mikhail Saakashvili. ”Adzharia’s autonomy was not given by Georgia,” Aleksandrov says. But by whom? He does not answer this question. He considers the lawful will of the official Tbilisi to restore the control over Batumi as an attempt to liquidate the autonomy and urges the Russian Foreign Ministry to interfere in the internal affairs of the neighboring country taking advantage of its status of warrantor. Moreover, he states that Moscow and Kars agreements give Adzaria the possibility to separate from Georgia. ”No agreement – no autonomy. Consequently, Abashidze has the right to proclaim independence,” he says in fact backing the idea of separatism.
The subject started in Moscow continued in Ankara. Turkish authorities hinted at the possibility of basing their troops on the territory of Adzharia. And they quote always the same agreements. This is a proof that documents signed in 1921 in Kars and Moscow continue to play an extremely negative role and may become a cover for a new Turkish intervention. The outside forces may always find an occasion for destabilization of the situation in the region. If the world community wants to have a peaceful Caucasus, it has to do its best to achieve the denouncement of the illegal agreements concluded behind Armenians and Georgians by Vladimir Lenin and Mustafa Kemal.
