BAKU CONDUCT CONFLICTS WITH INTERNATIONAL LEGITIMACY CRITERION

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.03.2008 18:32 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijani official establishment announces that
"the Karabakh status problem can be resolved only on the basis of
the internal legislation of Azerbaijan" and the activities of the
Minsk Group, in consultations with the conflict sides on the status,
are allegedly an intrusion into the domestic affairs of Azerbaijan,
Head of the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the MoD,
Doctor of Political Sciences, Major General Hayk Kotanjian said in
an interview with the press center of the RA Ministry of Defense.

"A symptomatic illustration appears to be the incompatibility of the
Republic of Azerbaijan’s Constitution with the essence of international
legal norm on the principle and right of nations to master their fate
independently by means of free expression of popular will in conditions
of complete freedom, stipulated by the UN Charter and International
Covenants on Human Rights of 1966. As it is known, these documents
in the international relations system are treaties consolidating the
states’ commitment to adhere to and respect universally recognized
fundamental principles and norms of the International law, first and
foremost – human rights and freedoms.

It concerns those principles of the International law, which comprise
its most stable kernel and are a universal criterion to evaluate
legitimacy of states’ conduct."

"The norm of the Azerbaijan’s Constitution "on change of territory by
holding a referendum among all the Azerbaijani population" contradicts
the other norm of the same document, defined in the article "The
ultimate goal of the state". In accordance with the given definition
"human and citizen rights and freedoms, enumerated in the present
Constitution are employed in conformity with the international
treaties, which are supported by the Republic of Azerbaijan". In
this case the above mentioned international treaties should be
touched upon."

"Thus the assertions of the Azerbaijani authorities on their adherence
to the international law in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict resolution
don’t correspond to the truth. The conduct of Azerbaijan in terms of
consistent reflection of universally accepted principles and norms of
the international law in the Constitution, as well as in the Karabakh
conflict settlement practice, doesn’t correspond to the international
legitimacy criterion," the Major General resumed.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress