CHIEF OF NKR MFA INFORMATION DEPARTMENT MARSEL PETROSSIAN’S COMMENTARY FOR THE MASS MEDIA
armradio.am
08.08.2008 18:03
Another disinformation of Baku 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.
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 party,
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.
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 Az erbaijan) and shift the
guilt to the Karabakhi party.
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 party, 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.
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.