IF THE MEDIATORS DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING MORE REASONABLE TO PROPOSE…
KarabakhOpen
28-03-2007 13:19:27
Everyone admits that the conflict over Karabakh has run into a
deadlock.
However, it does not mean that this state of things obliges us to
let the Minsk Group co-chairs push ourselves around, for whom certain
interests are more important than the future of our nation.
What will the provisional status proposed by the OSCE Minsk Group
let us have? How will the population of Karabakh react, whom they
have forgotten at such an important period?
"A status is either there or is not there. What does a provisional
status mean? O.K., they are trying to cheat us, but who are we trying
to cheat? Our children? My husband fought in the war and was killed
for the happiness and security of his family. To return the land
means to start war again, to return to the zero point. This time
the life of my son is staked. This cannot be allowed to happen,"
says Anna Beglaryan, the wife of a killed freedom fighter.
"For Azerbaijan, giving away Karabakh means to admit the weakness of
the state and the inability to maintain territorial integrity. For
Karabakh, to believe such "canards" as the provisional status means
to lose everything: territory, peace, and finally life, which is
so precious to us," says Narine Karapetyan from Stepanakert. "What
are they proposing to us? To return Lachin and Kelbajar and beg the
"merciful" Azerbaijanis for security and a corridor with Armenia? Or to
return to Aghdam and then beg "our neighbors" to mercy us, the fools
who were unable to protect themselves, and not shoot at us from such
a close distance? Aren’t my words funny? If for the settlement of the
conflict our mediators could not propose anything more reasonable, we
had better keep our unrecognized status not so clear to the world. I
am sorry but they will have to accept it."