IN AZERBAIJAN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO REALIZE THAT THE WAR FOR SOMEONE ELSE’S TERRITORY IS COMMITTED TO DEFEAT

PanARMENIAN.Net
Analytical Department
14.06.2007

"The image of the enemy" is once and for all formed and if things go
on like this, perhaps the inner instability will lead to civil strife
like it had happened before Heydar Aliyev.

The President of Armenia and the President of Azerbaijan didn’t come
to any common conclusion in Saint Petersburg just like it should have
been expected. However the meeting of the two Presidents gave grounds
for different announcements and discussion of the document about the
resolution, which according to the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vartan Oskanyan, will firstly determine the status of Nagorno-Karabakh
and then will help find answers to the other questions.

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In Baku immediately after the meeting the Karabakh
Forum with participation of deputies and political parties was held. It
launched with a scandal. On the list of the announced organizers there
was the name of the political scientist Ilgar Mamedov, who, according
to the articles, is against the radical means put forward by Akif
Naðý. Day. az has published the announcement made by Mamedov, where
he emphasizes; "The information about my participation in organizing
the Karabakh Forum is a complete lie. I encourage practically all
the initiatives of the public discussion of the Karabakh Conflict
and I always take very active part in their works. However, I never
agreed to become one of the organizers of the mentioned Forum. That
is why I am surprised and disappointed that the Karabakh Liberation
Organization has mentioned my name among the initiators of this event,
while I had agreed to participate in the discussions only."

But the matter is not in Ilgar Mamedov only, but that Baku seems to
have started to realize that sooner or later it will have to reach the
agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh status and only then solve the other
problems, such as territorial problems, the problem of refugees,
borders and so on.

"Karabakh Liberation Organization thinks that Azerbaijan should cancel
the idea of holding the referendum on determining the further status
of Nagorno-Karabakh," announced Akif Naði. The president of the party
of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan Ali Kerimli said in his speech that
"The international organizations strive to once and for all tear away
Nagorno Karabakh from Azerbaijan." According to him, in case Kosovo
gains its independence, Azerbaijan will have a rather serious danger
to face. Kerimli also said that it was very unreasonable to hold
the referendum on the status of Nagorno Karabakh in Azerbaijan. The
President of the oppositional National Democratic Party Bozgurd
Iskender Hamidov came forward with the idea of discontinuing the
OSCE Minsk Group’s activity, as well as demanded to reject the
implementation of the policy of "National Diplomacy".

All the participants of the Forum are active supporters of the conflict
resolution by use of force, who for some unknown reasons forget that
as Agber Hasanov writes, "If on the streets of Baku there is no one
ready "to liberate" Nagorno-Karabakh, in our opinion it means that
this land didn’t and doesn’t belong to Azerbaijan". Moreover, Baku
will hardly dare to unleash any war, in spite of all the preparations
being held within and beyond of the borders of the country. "The image
of the enemy" is once and for all formed and if it goes on like this,
perhaps the inner instability will lead to civil strife like it had
happened before Heydar Aliyev. Then the President Aliyev will hardly
be concerned about Karabakh, as he will have to save his position by
all means, even by war. The hope will fall upon oil and gas supplies,
yet, as it has already been mentioned, war cannot be won by the help
of growing military budget only. Elmar Huseynov is one of the few
journalists in Azerbaijan, who paid with his life for his views, wrote
in 1997 "We lost the war, because we didn’t fight for our land. Our
refugees do not want to return, as it is not their land…" These
lines were published in the newspaper "Monitor", which was shut down
by Heydar Aliyev. This was and still remains the only truth.

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