Initiated by Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili and unanimously approved by the parliament, the decree provides for the annulment of the agreement according to which Russia was supplying military equipment and personnel to the military base N102 deployed in the Armenian city of Gyumri.

Still, assistant adviser to the Minister Selim Yener expressed hope that improvement in relations between the two neighboring states would be achieved as he met with a group of visiting Armenian journalists in Ankara on Friday.

“Turkey has stepped out of the shadows and now threatens to settle into the prominent place on the world stage once held by its predecessor,” writes foreign policy expert John Feffer.

Israel, the carrier-state of the Shoah which followed a generation later, has long been unconscionably complicit in the realpolitik relegation of the Armenian loss of life and homeland to the footnotes of inconvenient, expendable crimes against humanity.

Vartan Oskanian, who currently heads Civilitas Foundation, a Yerevan-based think tank, said in his article published on Monday that “it was clear from the beginning that a prolonged presentation of the desirable as real is not sustainable, and that the government would have to finally acknowledge reality.”

Armenia, that ancient civilization deprived by the tragedies of yore of its capacity for contemporary statecraft, needs immediately to put its house in democratic order. Finally responsible for its own record, it also has legitimate expectations of the international partnership.