BAKU FEARS ANY KIND OF ELECTIONS IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.07.2007 GMT+04:00

No matter what the international organizations announce or say,
elections in Nagorno-Karabakh will be held and unlike those in
Azerbaijan, they will be free and democratic.

Presidential Elections in Nagorno-Karabakh which are scheduled to be
held on July 19, once again became the main topic of discussion in
Azerbaijan and not only.

The European officials have already declared the elections invalid and,
which is more important, have qualified them as "having negative impact
on the peaceful process of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict regulation".

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian side has already habituated itself
to the fact that no elections can have any impact on Azerbaijan’s
stubborn unwillingness of getting used to the reality. Only Europe
and the USA have remained to get used to it. Moreover, no "statements"
made by the OSCE, EU and even the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
will change anything.

People of Nagorno-Karabakh will live on and do whatever they think
is right to do. As for Turkey, it is simply obliged not to recognize
the results of the Presidential Elections in Nagorno-Karabakh, which
"from point of view of international law are invalid".

Ankara qualifies the upcoming elections as an attempt to legalize
the status quo in Nagorno-Karabakh in the violation of the decision
of the UN Security Council and the OSCE principles," it was said in
the statement of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Unlike
Azerbaijan, Ankara made it with a few words only, yet in the
neighboring country everybody took their turn to speak up about the
elections in Nagorno-Karabakh.

As always political scientist Wafa Guluzade overdid it all. "The
topic of the so-called "elections" is such a hackneyed story that
the international community doesn’t care about it any longer. Such
activities organized by separatists do not have legal or any other
bases. In fact, they do not mean anything at all; this is also
the opinion of the international organizations. The independence
of Nagorno-Karabakh is not recognized by any country," assures Wafa
Guluzade, forgetting about his rather unwelcoming role in the process
of the conflict regulation, when Aliyev Senior simply took away from
him the position of advisor for being "undiplomatic".

Another thing about the elections in Nagorno-Karabakh that is worth
mentioning is the article published in "Zerkalo" entitled "The US Human
Rights Advocates Appeal to Congress to Display Pressure on Azerbaijan".

The whole article, as usual, is full of unveiled lie, except for the
last paragraph; "Is there really anyone who seriously thinks that
negating what is evident but impossible for a country which insists on
its democratic values, and trying to find the Armenian footprints in
all our troubles will help us change the situation to the better…?"

Yet, no matter what the international organizations announce or
say, elections in Nagorno-Karabakh will be held and unlike those
in Azerbaijan, they will be free and democratic. The difference
between the voters of Baku and the voters of Stepanakert is that
people of Nagorno-Karabakh understands completely what they want
from the head of the country. And the fact that Baku fears any
kind of elections in Nagorno-Karabakh is quite understandable. "The
European Bodies are perfectly aware of the fact that the elections in
Nagorno-Karabakh are much more democratic and free than in any other
country of the region. Elections make it more difficult to influence
on Nagorno-Karabakh, and the upcoming Presidential elections in
Karabakh are just another step which takes the country closer to
independence. In no other self-proclaimed republic the President
takes its position on Constitutional bases like it happens in
Karabakh. It must be mentioned that the people of Nagorno-Karabakh
are rather politicized and always make their choice out of their own
interests. In this regard, I think, elections in Nagorno-Karabakh
may serve as example for many countries," says political scientist
Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan.