This opinion was expressed by Professor from University of Lodz Anjey de Lazari during the meeting with students of YSU Faculty of International Relations. He has arrived to Armenia together with another Polish expert, diplomat Marian Stashevsky by the invitation of Globalization and Regional Cooperation Analytical Centre NGO. Ambassador of Poland to Armenia Tomasz Knothe was present at this meeting.
The topic, chosen for discussion was International organizations and Southern Caucasus conflicts. Marian Stashevsky was the OSCE representative to Abkhazia till 2006 and has participated in various processes, negotiations, regarding the issues regulation. He focused on the history and development of conflict in Georgia.
Mr. Stashevsky states the impact of international organizations on conflict regulation is a possible variant, if more skillful and brave specialists are present in these structures, ready to express their disagreement regarding the activities by this or that countries or powers. He did not forget about the special behavior of diplomat, stating the quality of his answers in this way.
Diplomat must not say anything more than it is required: his mission is the final result only. That is why usually good diplomat does not have skills to communicate with audience, - said Mr. Stashevsky.
Professor Anjey de Lazari spoke about the programming of nations, focusing on the aspect of cultural peculiarities here. How to provide nations, living in different cultural worlds, with understanding? Professor said that the uniting power of nations, alas, is not the Christianity. The uniting criterion here is the universal law, - said Ajey de Lazari.
He signified the formation of civil society, which directly deals with the democratic values. Unfortunately nationalism is widely spread in our country currently. But the civil society is in the process of formation now. I guess the last elections in Poland state about it. Society, first of all youth, was too dissatisfied by the policy of former government, and all of them participated in the elections to vote for changes, - said the Professor.
Though dean of the faculty Gegham Petrosyan mentioned that generally the ideas, expressed during the meeting, were not new for our studentship, he assured that meetings and communication with foreign diplomats and experts are very important for them: They will make parallels between the opinions of local and foreign specialists to make personal conclusions.
Since the morning of December 12th, a group of Azerbaijani civilians disguised as environmentalists have imposed a blockade on the Goris-Stepanakert highway (the Lachin Corridor) which is currently the only route linking Nagorno-Karabakh to the outside world. On top of that, during bitterly cold winter Azerbaijan had shut off natural gas supplies leaving the civilians in the territory without heating for 75 hours.
The simulation game-competition "National Assembly Model" organized by the Student Council of the Faculty of International Relations took place in the meeting hall of the YSU Academic Council, during which the student-deputies divided into three factions presented their plans for the development of Armenia. The game ended with the victory of the "Republican" party.
