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In Azerbaijan there are people who realize that the war for someone
else’s territory is committed to defeat
`The image of the enemy’ is once and for all formed and if things go
on like this, perhaps the inner instability will lead to civil strife
like it had happened before Heydar Aliyev.
14.06.2007 GMT+04:00
The President of Armenia and the President of Azerbaijan didn’t come
to any common conclusion in Saint Petersburg just like it should have
been expected. However the meeting of the two Presidents gave grounds
for different announcements and discussion of the document about the
resolution, which according to the RA Minister of Foreign Affairs
Vartan Oskanyan, will firstly determine the status of Nagorno-Karabakh
and then will help find answers to the other questions.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In Baku immediately after the meeting the Karabakh
Forum with participation of deputies and political parties was
held. It launched with a scandal. On the list of the announced
organizers there was the name of the political scientist Ilgar
Mamedov, who, according to the articles, is against the radical means
put forward by Akif Naðý. Day. az has published the announcement
made by Mamedov, where he emphasizes; `The information about my
participation in organizing the Karabakh Forum is a complete lie. I
encourage practically all the initiatives of the public discussion of
the Karabakh Conflict and I always take very active part in their
works. However, I never agreed to become one of the organizers of the
mentioned Forum. That is why I am surprised and disappointed that the
Karabakh Liberation Organization has mentioned my name among the
initiators of this event, while I had agreed to participate in the
discussions only.’
But the matter is not in Ilgar Mamedov only, but that Baku seems to
have started to realize that sooner or later it will have to reach the
agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh status and only then solve the other
problems, such as territorial problems, the problem of refugees,
borders and so on.
`Karabakh Liberation Organization thinks that Azerbaijan should cancel
the idea of holding the referendum on determining the further status
of Nagorno-Karabakh,’ announced Akif Naði. The president of the
party of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan Ali Kerimli said in his
speech that `The international organizations strive to once and for
all tear away Nagorno Karabakh from Azerbaijan.’ According to him, in
case Kosovo gains its independence, Azerbaijan will have a rather
serious danger to face. Kerimli also said that it was very
unreasonable to hold the referendum on the status of Nagorno Karabakh
in Azerbaijan. The President of the oppositional National Democratic
Party Bozgurd Iskender Hamidov came forward with the idea of
discontinuing the OSCE Minsk Group’s activity, as well as demanded to
reject the implementation of the policy of `National Diplomacy’.
All the participants of the Forum are active supporters of the
conflict resolution by use of force, who for some unknown reasons
forget that as Agber Hasanov writes, `If on the streets of Baku there
is no one ready `to liberate’ Nagorno-Karabakh, in our opinion it
means that this land didn’t and doesn’t belong to
Azerbaijan’. Moreover, Baku will hardly dare to unleash any war, in
spite of all the preparations being held within and beyond of the
borders of the country. `The image of the enemy’ is once and for all
formed and if it goes on like this, perhaps the inner instability will
lead to civil strife like it had happened before Heydar Aliyev. Then
the President Aliyev will hardly be concerned about Karabakh, as he
will have to save his position by all means, even by war. The hope
will fall upon oil and gas supplies, yet, as it has already been
mentioned, war cannot be won by the help of growing military budget
only. Elmar Huseynov is one of the few journalists in Azerbaijan, who
paid with his life for his views, wrote in 1997 `We lost the war,
because we didn’t fight for our land. Our refugees do not want to
return, as it is not their land…’ These lines were published in the
newspaper `Monitor’, which was shut down by Heydar Aliyev. This was
and still remains the only truth. «PanARMENIAN.Net» analytical
department