AZERI GREEN PARTY LEADER: BAKU SHOULD END THE BLOCKADE OF ARMENIA
armradio.am
03.09.2007 17:21
Azerbaijan must open borders with Armenia and establish economic and
diplomatic ties with it, believes Mais Gyulaliyev, the leader of the
Green Party of Azerbaijan.
According to him, the party conducted a geopolitical survey in
the region and grounding on it prepared a package of proposals to
settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The package mostly considers
economic, social and political ways of the conflict settlement. The
document provides analysis of the Azerbaijani economy, the country’s
oil revenues. Besides, the package includes results of analysis of
positions and interests of international institutions regarding the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Green Party leader believes that a military way of the conflict
settlement is unreal and rules out this scenario. According to him,
this could gain profit only to the Azerbaijani opposition seeking
change of power. "The opposition comprehends that in the near future
it will not be able to come to power through elections. Forces
wanting ousting of the government are doing their utmost to make
the government resort to the forceful way and using the situation
to achieve replacement of the government. If there is a war,
international institutions will spare no effort to replace the
government, even NATO troops will immediately strike Azerbaijan,"
the Greens leader says. According to him, the Karabakh issue must
be settled only in the political way, which envisages Azerbaijan
fulfilling all its international obligations. "In our package, we
disclosed the obligations to the Azerbaijani public, opposition, NGOs
and international institutions. After fulfilling those obligations and
improving economy, Azerbaijan must take Armenia out of the economic
blockade and make it economically dependent from it," Mais Gyulaliyev
is quoted as saying by Trend.