ACCORDING TO NKR MFA SPOKESMAN, AZERBAIJAN INTENDS TO CREATE NEW "LIVE BARRIER" NOT FAR FROM CONTACT LINE
Noyan Tapan
Au g 11, 2008
STEPANAKERT, AUGUST 11, NOYAN TAPAN. Baku’s yet another misinformation
about construction of Nargistepe settlement – allegedly for refugees –
in the occupied territory of Martuni region of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic obvioulsy has some propaganda aims. According to the head
of the NKR MFA Information Department Marsel Petrosian, it is no
accident that this information was immediately refuted by the Azeri
side, however, as is usually done in Azerbaijan, some parts of this
information were revived and presented to the public in a different
light.
A question arises: why is Nargistepe settlement founded in Aram Desert,
2-3 km from the contact line, in an area that, according to reports of
the same Azeri side, is often under fire and is not fit to live in. In
the words of M. Petrosian, Baku has decided to organize a next-in-turn
army political provocation: to found an enclosed settlement for 5-6
thousand compulsory migrants (this is the number of refugees from
Nagorno Karabakh remaining in Azerbaijan) and to create new occasions
for accusing the Karabakh side.
M. Petrosian said that during the Azeri-Karabakh war, there were
frequently cases when the Azeri authorities urgently populated some
place or other and then turned this place into a military fulcrum,
in fact, forming a "live barrier" for Azeri soldiers and endangering
civilians. Being more concerned about the fate of its former Azeri
citizens, the Karabakh side expresses regret that in the past 20
years the Azeri authorities have not taken steps to bring closer the
two peoples estranged from each other.
"We hardly doubt it and want to warn the public that in the near
future Azerbaijan’s propaganda machine will include this settlement
in reports of the foreign ministry as a settlement under constant
fire of the NKR defence army," M. Petrosian stated.