AZERBAIJAN SHOCKED
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Dec 21 2009
Armenia
The Declaration on Peoples’ Universal Rights to Self-Determination
adopted at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly proved to
be another shock to the Azerbaijani Political Establishment. The
neighboring state’s best minds are now busy concocting an idea
for their own society not to even doubt a settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Azerbaijan’s favor.
It should be noted that Azerbaijan’s incumbent authorities has for
a long time cunningly tried to convince all and sundry that the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has nothing in common with the principle
of peoples’ right to self-determination. Moreover, with cynicism,
official Baku states that it admits this fundamental legal norm.
However, Ilham Aliyev and his clan see the practical application of
this principle only within Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. This is
an obvious attempt to impose ungrounded restrictions on the fundamental
international principle.
It is in this vein that the Azeri mass media are now taking vain
attempts to show that the resolution adopted by the UN General
Assembly on December 18 will have no effect on the Nagorno-Karabakh
peace process. And it is natural: the Azerbaijani authorities have
for years been boasting of the UN resolutions which, according
to their unilateral interpretation, contain elements of criticism
against Armenia’s actions during the bloody conflict. And now the
Azeri leader is faced with a serious test: even the "best traditions"
of Azerbaijan’s the state and propaganda machinery cannot cause the
developments to revert and present the UN General Assembly’s resolution
in a favorable light for Azerbaijan.
After one has looked though articles published by the central
Azerbaijani mass media, which are known to be controlled by Ilham
Aliyev’s clan, one get the impression that Azerbaijan has reconciled
itself to inevitable changes in the international situation as
far as Nagorno-Karabakh is concerned. Official Baku is disposed to
seeking cold comfort in that the last resolution of the UN General
Assembly does not say anything about the priority of nations’ right
to self-determination over the principle of territorial integrity. The
Azeri mass media, however, when they address this priority, betray the
untenable ‘starting point" of their own propaganda. Sometime, someone
in Baku decided that the territorial integrity principle is a priority
over that of nations’ right to self-determination, and that is the
reason for the brainwashing of Azerbaijan’s society. Now, in response
to the December 18 resolution, Baku refers to it as not containing
a point on the priority of nations’ right to self-determination over
territorial integrity, ignoring the fact that no one has ever spoken
of the priority of the second principle of international law over
the first.
No wonder. Azerbaijan has always had problem with perceiving the
actuality, seized with regular fits of lie and hysteria. After all,
it is a problem of Azerbaijan, not Armenia. The UN has once again
confirmed peoples’ right to self-determination as a fundamental
principle of international law, which will certainly have its impact
on the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
