HAYK DEMOYAN: ILHAM ALIYEV MIGHT STAKE HIS ALL AND START A WAR
PanARMENIAN.Net
25.03.2010 17:56 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ilham Aliyev might stake his all and start a war,
for the lack of any other resources to preserve power, Armenian
Genocide Museum director Hayk Demoyan said.
As Hayk Demoyan told a news conference in Yerevan, commenting on
the possibility of Armenia-Azerbaijan war, should the war start, it
will be a short one, being immediately stopped by the international
community, like it was the case with 2008’s Russia-Georgia war.
"Ilham Aliyev has to realize his army is under the influence of
Turkish officers and generals, who are, quite traditionally, capable
of overthrowing their rulers at any point," Demoyan said, adding that
under the influence of Turkish generals, the ruling Nakhichevan clan
will have to face the grim prospect of the change of power whether
Azerbaijan wins the war or it doesn’t.
As Demoyan noted, Azeri president has to be concerned about the
perspectives of winning the war, running the risk of being picked
as a target by generals. "No reasonable politician would start a
war in the region, what with his unstable position. War is generals’
and not politicians’ business, even less so Ilham Aliyev’s chose to
spend holidays in Turkey during the war," Armenian Genocide Museum
Director stated.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out back in 1991, when, subsequent
to the demand for self-determination of the Nagorno-Karabakh people,
Azerbaijani authorities attempted to resolve the issue through ethnic
cleansings, carried out by Soviet security forces (KGB special units)
under the pretext of the implementation of the passport regime and by
launching of large-scale military operations, which left thousands dead
and caused considerable material damage. A cease-fire agreement was
established in 1994. Negotiations on the settlement of the conflict are
being conducted under the mediation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen
(Russia, USA, France) and on the basis of their Madrid proposals,
presented in November, 2007.
Azerbaijan has not yet implemented the 4 resolutions of the UN
Security Council adopted in 1993, by continuing to provoke arms race
in the region and openly violating on of the basic principles of the
international law non-use of force or threat of force.