TO REMOVE THE HEAD, NOT THE GUARD
Azat Artsakh Newspaper NKR
Published on November 25, 2009
On november 22, the next meeting of armenian and azeri presidents
took place. OSCE MG co-chairs prepared this meeting during their
recent visit to the region.The presidents of beligerent states agreed
to continue negotiations for final resolvement of basic principles of
Karabakh problem.By the way, we must confess, that co-chairs, by
tradition, decided not to make optimistic statements, as it was
before. We suppose there is no any ground for optimism. Nevertheless,
french co-chair Mr. Bernard Fassier stated that there is «important
progress» in Munich meeting, though it’s hard to believe in this fact.
But we must confess that the success was the agreement of two
presidents to meet again. The point is that for reaching not only
middle- term, but also long term decisions, the sides must show both
political will and realistic views for developed situation and
prospects for resolving the conflict. Alas, the absence of realistic
understanding continues to dominate in the mind of azeri president.
Azerbaijan continues to blame Armenia of destructiveness and
postponement of conflict settlement terms. As concerns to
settlement terms, it will be silliness to think that the conflict will
be resolved in near future.If it’s worth for two armenian states to
hurry in solving Karabakh problem, when Azerbaijan absolutely lost the
sense of reality and claims all, moreover it’s done in dictative form
towards mediators and armenian side? «We see three stages of
Karabakh conflict settlement. First, the withdrawal of armenian
troops,second, the return of all refugees to their native lands. And
after this we can talk about the status of Nagorno Karabakh,- azeri
foreign minister E. Mammadyarov said before Munich meeting.Press
secretary to azeri foreign minister Elhan Poluhov added to the words
of his boss that after liberation of occupied territories, armenian
and azeri communities will decide the status of Nagorno Karabakh
within territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Generalizing above
mentioned passages, we must cite the following words of azeri
president Ilham Aliyev «The guard’s tired to wait», and as usual he
seasoned his words with the threat to begin war actions. It’s not
difficult to notice that all prejudices of azeri official position
have no basis and simple logic, and for this cause they are
infulfilable.Let’s analyze the situation. Azeri side persistently
declares that now the withdrawal of armenian troops from seven
provinces is in the agenda of the talks. With this persistence
armenian side declares that this question was not discussed by them
and the status of Nagorno Karabakh is the topic of the talks. We can
trust the second position, because without finding mutually accepted
settlement of Karabakh conflict, where the main is the future
political status of Karabakh, it’s senseless to speak about refugees
and territories. We can not find any leader in armenian society who
will dare to make such a step, which will be equal to political
suicide. As concerns to azeri views on Karabakh status, which is
stubbornly forced on mediators and two armenian sides, we must
dirrectly say, in response to their views, according to international
law and particularly the declaration of the principles of
international law, Conclusion Act of Helsinki, all the nations have
the right freely WITHOUT EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE determinate their
political status, and by own will carry out their political, economic,
social, cultural development. We can not name such position of
Azerbaijan otherwise, than amateur work, claiming revision of one of
the basic principles of international law, for this cause, it’s
extremely dangerous. But official Baku, as it’s noticable, will not
secede such a position. Losing one of the levers of influence,namely,
armenian-turkish closed border, official Baku perhaps is losing the
soil under its foot and it’s unable to find any adequate substitute
for its exhausted policy. In addition to everything, the fact of
unableness of influencing on normalisation process between Yerevan and
Ankara, causes rage in the behaviour of azeri president. «I am
sure, we’ll get what we wish. But I want to get it as soon as
possible.»,- I. Aliyev said. Wishing is harmful in this case,
because judging from above mentioned threats, with such a
potential,which is far from reality, the settlement of the problem can
be postponed. It’s obvious that the «guard» must wait long. But,
we confess, we shall wait not for the guard, but for guard head’s
policy change. Until he realizes inperspectiveness of the position
based on illusions of frightening and incomparable predominance.
Leonid Martirosyan