BAKU SEEKS FOR NEW WAYS OF LAUNDERING ITS PETRODOLLARS, NKR MFA SAYS
PanARMENIAN.Net
08.08.2008 18:13 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Baku misinformation on building a settlement of
Nargiztepe for refugees on the occupied territory of NKR Martouni
region, obviously, pursues propagandistic goals. It is not accidental
that, first, this information was promptly denied just by the
Azerbaijani party. However, some of its points were "resuscitated"
and introduced in a rather different angle, as it is often practiced
in Azerbaijan, said Marsel Petrossian, Chief of NKR MFA Information
Department.
"A reasonable question arises in this connection: why is Nargiztepe
settlement being built just in the Arami desert, 2-3 km from
the contact-line, an area, which, according to the Azerbaijani
side, is permanently fired at and is not absolutely adapted for
habitation? Couldn’t they find a more favorable inhabitancy than
this severe desert for the refugees from Nagorno Karabakh who are
more developed than the citizens of the Azerbaijani regions? This
"initiative" should be qualified as a couldn’t-care-less attitude
towards the mentioned section of the population," he said.
"Probably, Baku decided to organize another military-political
provocation – to draw informational-propagandistic "fire" to the newly
created settlement, and in fact – reservation of 5 or 6 thousand
of forced settlers (according to our data, this is the number of
refugees from Nagorno Karabakh living nowadays in Azerbaijan) and
shift the guilt to the Karabakhi side."
"During the war between Azerbaijan and Karabakh, there were many
instances that the Azeri authorities urgently populated different
settlements and then turned them into military control points, thus,
actually creating a "human wall" for their servicemen and dooming the
peaceful population to death. The Karabakhi side, which is concerned
about its former Azerbaijani citizens, expresses its regret that
for 20 years the Azeri leadership has taken no steps for thawing the
relations between the two alienable nations," he went on to comment.
"Maybe, Baku merely seeks for new ways of laundering its
petrodollars? And the searches have obviously brought to the
desert. Actually, we have no doubt and would like to warn the
societies that the Azeri propagandistic machine will start including
the above-mentioned settlement into its Defense Ministry’s round-ups
as a place, which is under the NKR Defense Army’s heavy fire," Mr
Petrossian resumed.