ATAKHAN: WE SHOULD RATHER DEVELOP OURSELVES AND BRING THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR PROBLEMS

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Oct 31 2008
Azerbaijan

Oqtay Atakhan: "We should rather develop ourselves and bring the truth
about our problems via our mass medias and communications instead of
blaming some Russian mass medias"

Day.Az interview with leader of the Humanist Party of Azerbaijan
Oqtay Atakhan.

– How would comment on the action of the Russian portal Mail.Ru
against the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan?

– There is nothing surprising about it. Such actions are taken not
only by Russian but also other foreign mass medias, as well as public
and state organizations. We should rather develop ourselves and bring
the truth about our problems via our mass medias and communications
instead of blaming some Russian mass medias.

– You are right. We have repeatedly witnessed that different Russian
companies and news portals challenge the territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan. What is it connected with?

– It is connected with the fact that all countries, except for two
or three states, in fact do not recognize the territorial integrity
of Azerbaijan.

The fact that no one recognizes Armenia as an aggressor country and
perceive it as an equal party in the said conflict, in which we are
bound to make a "compromise", implying that we must admit our guilt
and reject our native lands, proves most things…

Thus, instead of initiation of the second world war and declaration
of war to fascist aggressor, the leading world states could have urged
the occupied France, Poland, Holland and USSR and all others to sit on
the negotiation table with the fascist Germany, which occupied them,
and attain an agreement with it, by no way applying force in response,
which today the world community does not recognize in our case.

If Great Britain and the United states had behaved like that and bound
others to do that, it would be clear that the current political map
of the world would have been different. It means that what is allowed
to super states is prohibited to small countries like Azerbaijan.

– I would call it a tough comparison. But let’s get back to the
assessment of the reasons of separate cases of disrespect towards the
territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Thus, there is ArmRosgazprom,
which ensures gas supply to Nagorno karabakh. Gazprom owns 67.94%
in the founding capital, the government of Armenia 26.23% and ITERA
5.83%. Does it prove that Gazprom is aware that gas is supplied to
the occupied lands of Azerbaijan?

– The government of Russia which owns Gazprom de facto and de jure and
via it ArmRosgazprom is aware not only of it and everything that is
going on both in Armenia and in Azerbaijan but is a direct ideologist
and initiator of most that is happening in the region.

– Does Gazprom have a significant influence on the external policy
of Russia?

– Gazprom and Lukoil in Russia, as well as BP in Great Britain and
all similar producing companies of other countries, including all
those foreign companies, operating in Azerbaijan, are in fact state
"backs"- the representatives of these countries in the regions and
the countries, where these companies work.

And the most important is that these "backs" in fact unite all
interests and the services of these countries including external
political, external economic, reconnaissance, counter-reconnaissance,
information and propagandist.

– How will Azerbaijan build its further relations with Gazprom
and Russia?

– The same as we build relations with all those foreign companies,
which, unlike Gazprom, in fact own our oil and our gas and most of
other things, we do not think of or mention.

Gazprom has just stated the intention to buy our gas while US companies
along with British and other ones have fully seized control over
our natural resources and what? Don’t they provide direct financial
assistance both to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh?

The problem lies not with Russia, the United States, Great Britain
and almost all the remaining countries of the world, who do not
care of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani people. The problem lies with our
improvidence, bribery and constant greediness. If after the death of
the prominent figure of our people Muslim Magomayev it became clear
that most people not only among youth but also among older generation
do not know who he was and are absolutely indifferent to this tragic
event – what can be said about such people?

If we admitted on the state level that about 5,000 elderly people,
women and children were captured only in 2008 15 years after 1993,
which morality, honor and dignity can be spoken of? We have deserved
everything that we have now.