ZURAB TODUA: "AZERBAIJAN DOES NOT SEEM WILLFUL TO RETURN ITS TERRITORIES"

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.07.2008 13:51 GMT+04:00

"Azerbaijan does not seem willful to return its territories," according
to a Russian expert.

"Let’s imagine the following situation: President of Azerbaijan Ilham
Aliyev declares that patience of the Azerbaijani people has been
exhausted and it will settle the Karabakh problem independently. Then
Azerbaijan will start hostilities. How many volunteers will go to the
front to return the lost lands? How much money will Azeri officials
spend for army needs? How many of them will reject their villas,
yachts and limos and other luxurious things to bear wartime hardships
and miseries alongside with ordinary citizens? How many victims is
the Azerbaijani society ready to give for the sake of the return of
the lost lands? If you give an honest answer to these questions, you
will admit that Turkey has the right to take care of its national
interests, which also envisages normalization of relations with
Armenia," political scientist Zurab Todua said.

Asked about "improvement" of the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, he
said, "If you mean prospects of "return" of Nagorno Karabakh, then
it is unreal. On the whole, Armenian-Turkish dialogue will not have
a serious influence on the Azerbaijani-Armenian relations, I think."

"There is no place of naivety in the politics and Turkey and Armenia
primarily settle their own tasks at the bargaining table," he added,
Day.az reports.