AZERBAIJANI MP: ARMENIA SEEKS "TASTY MORSEL" OF GEORGIAN LAND
news.az
Nov 25 2009
Azerbaijan
Nizami Jafarov Nizami Jafarov, a member of parliament for the ruling
New Azerbaijan Party, has said that Armenia would like to lay claims
to Georgian territory.
"If one looks closely, it becomes clear that all the origins and
scenarios of conflicts in the South Caucasus are strikingly similar,"
MP Nizami Jafarov said, commenting to 1news.az on the current tensions
between Georgia and Armenia.
"The main cause of the conflict between Georgia and Armenia is a
national history, which is mostly artificial. By reading the history of
the past, Armenians and Georgians are turning it into an ideological
and political factor today. Armenians cannot say ‘goodbye’ to the
tales of past years about ‘Great Armenia’, invented by the church
and the nationalist ideologists of the Armenian people.
Unfortunately, this is why Armenian-Georgian relations may become an
inflammatory factor of destabilization in the South Caucasus in the
long run," Jafarov said.
"A third party, Azerbaijan, which by virtue of its mentality has
never had claims on other people’s territories, usually suffered
more than others as a result. But today the situation is changing and
Azerbaijan’s enemies are no longer able to make any claims. Therefore,
Armenians and their foreign backers have chosen Georgia as the weak
link in the South Caucasus. Their appetites are fuelled by the fact
that Georgia is losing the territories that were included in it in
Soviet times. Armenia has an irresistible desire to tear off a tasty
morsel of Georgian land.
"Therefore, Armenians are trying hard to exaggerate their own problems
with Georgians, thereby, preparing the ground to justify before
the world community possible future aggression against neighbouring
Georgia," the MP said.
"As for Azerbaijan, they will still have a big problem and being aware
of this Armenians throughout the world are developing a long-term
defence strategy in the hope of rescuing their state. The Karabakh
conflict has awakened the people of Azerbaijan who are now going
through a phase of demographic growth. That is why the Azerbaijani
people are calm about their future and confident of victory over
their enemies and the liberation of all the occupied territories in
the near future," Jafarov concluded.