A new world order is shaping fast.

Vaհe H Apelian

Yesterday,10-July, 202,, ALJAZEERA reported the following: “The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan have held peace talks in the United Arab Emirates after nearly four decades of conflict, but no hoped-for breakthrough has been announced. The meeting in Abu Dhabi on Thursday between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev came after the two countries finalized a draft peace deal in March.”

While “no hoped breakthrough has been announced”, let us not be fooled. A new world order is shaping fast.

Yesterday, Friday July 11, 2025, The New York Times reported that “Dozens of Kurdish fighters from Turkey publicly burned their weapons on Friday during a ceremony to demonstrate that their insurgent group was giving up its decades-long armed struggle against Turkey.” The Kurdish fighters who burned a cache of weapons in northern Iraq, in a rare public display of disarmament, even though days before they had successfully downed several explosive-laden drones allegedly launched by Turkey, are from PKK - the Kurdistan Workers' Party. Ankara hailed the weapons destruction as a “turning point” in its decades-long conflict with the PKK, which it designates a terrorist group.

Iran is out of Syria and a new dawn for Syrian and Turkish relations has appeared on the horizon. The world is on a move.

I post the following comments from a group of us, fellow Kessabtsis, who were born and raised in that part of the world, exchanging our views regarding this rapid pace of global change. 

Ara said: 

“Arab nationalism succumbed to pragmatism. The gulf states are wielding more power than all the Arab Armies that are no more and the heroes of the past marched to the gallows like Saddam, Qaddafi and the vanquished Bashar .. 

A new world order!

UAE, maybe even the new Syria will profoundly affect Armenia.

The status quo and mind set of post WW-1 is undergoing a seismic change. “

Jack said: 

“Any dream of Kurdistan is quashed for the foreseeable future. Yes, thankful for peace, sad that the Kurds don’t have a homeland of their own after all these centuries. As the kids in the sandbox might say, “not fair!”. Yes Johnny, but such is life. We better not bitch too much about Pashinian ‘selling out Artsakh, or Western Armenia’. Be thankful if we remain with ANY Armenia.”

I quote from a comment I made regarding the Armenian Church and the State conflict in Armenia that may have an adverse affect on the viability of a free, independent, democrat sovereign republic of Armenia we dreamed. “There was a time when the perception of the Armenian Apostolic Church was national (azkayin). But in the free, independent, democratic, sovereign Armenia, the perception of the Armenian Apostolic Church is pollical that may not be in sync with the state’s policy. If Armenians are to have a sovereign republic, a new experience for us, the Armenian Apostolic Church will have to make adjustments to the realities of a sovereign Republic of Armenia in peace with its immediate neighbors and with the regional and global powers.”

Random quotes:

I quote the following comment by Srepan Piligian from one of his weekly columns in the Armenia Weekly. “Simply put, if the democratic institutions of Armenia are not supported in this transition, then what is the point of sovereignty?”

Recently Hagop commented in the Armenian weekly saying: “Armenia’s soul is its democracy”. Which, needless to say must be safeguarded by all law abiding citizens, naturally including its ecclesiastical fathers. 

Indeed, may God be with you for Armenia, PM.