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Spanish parliamentarians have shown their total
unprofessionalism by passing through an anti-Azerbaijani resolution
expressing its attitude to the protest by representatives of
Azerbaijani environmental organizations on the route of the Lachin
road, Parvin Mirzazade, Ambassador-at-Large of the Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry, said in his latest article, trend reports.
'On 22 December 2022, Spain's lower house of parliament passed
another anti-Azerbaijani resolution expressing its attitude to the
protest by representatives of Azerbaijani environmental
organizations on the route of the Lachin road, near the city of
Shusha. It is pleasant that the heirs of Christopher Columbus and
Miguel Cervantes, forgetting about the problems of their native
Spain, which is now experiencing a deep economic and political
crisis, have decided to tackle the problems of the South Caucasus
region, so distant from them,' he said.
According to Mirzazade, the authors of this fake resolution had
manipulated with facts of what is happening in the Lachin road, and
the hapless Spanish MPs did not even think to ask knowledgeable
people about the essence and causes of the events.
On the initiative of representatives of the separatist Catalan
and Basque parties, who are always trying to break up the Spanish
Kingdom, the deputies voted for a resolution that says: 'We are
watching with concern the events surrounding the Lachin road; ⁃
call on Azerbaijan to ensure uninterrupted traffic along the
corridor, according to the trilateral statement of 9 November 2020;
⁃ call on international structures to prevent a humanitarian
catastrophe in the region'.
'The fact that representatives of separatist parties in Spain
have long been firmly linked to the Armenian lobby is probably
known to all. However, it is clearly a know-how that Spanish MPs
not only decimate their own country, but also try to seize a part
of territory from another sovereign state of Azerbaijan with
Armenian money. Not being fully informed about what is happening in
the region, and relying only on one-sided tendentious information
provided by the Armenian lobby, the Spanish parliamentarians draw
false conclusions, which speaks of their total unprofessionalism,'
he said.
As he rightly pointed out, without understanding the situation
and openly taking the side of the Armenian side, the Spanish MPs
did not even dare to request information from Brussels, which is
mediating the peace process. Apparently, the Spanish MPs do not
understand that the Lachin road is Azerbaijani sovereign territory,
and that there is no blockade at all. Judging by the video footage
of shops in Khankendi filled with food products, this is just a
cheap show put on by Armenian politicians in the hope of appeasing
compassionate Europeans.
Spain has recently experienced a number of acute moments of
rising separatist sentiment in Catalonia and the Basque Country,
which has brought the country almost to the brink of civil war. The
Basque terrorist organization ETA launched an all-out war against
the Spanish state, which was marked by a series of high-profile
major terrorist attacks targeting members of the armed forces,
police and civilians. In Catalonia, the Catalan separatists, who
came to power through local elections, practically began the
process of secession from Spain and even passed a resolution on
independence, requesting recognition from the European Parliament
and other countries, Mirzazade explained.
With difficulty, Madrid managed to suppress these separatist
protests, using force and legal measures in some cases. The rise of
separatism in Catalonia and the Basque Country has led to similar
sentiments in some other autonomous provinces of Spain: Galicia,
the Canary Islands, etc. The memory of the bloody civil war of
1936-1939, which brought the country to the brink of collapse, is
still fresh in Spain, as some Catalan and Basque Republicans
advocated the independence of Catalonia and the Basque Country from
Madrid and established a virtually independent government in the
territories under their control, he noted.
Incidentally, one of the reasons for the republicans' defeat was
separatism, which led to the loss of support from broad masses of
people who did not want the country to collapse and return to the
Middle Ages, when there were several states at enmity with each
other in what is now Spain. The nationalists, led by General
Franco, took advantage of this and defeated the Republicans,
despite the support of the USSR and other left-wing forces, he
added.
'So, the subject of separatism in Spain has always been a matter
of life and death for the Spanish state. The current government of
Socialist P. Sánchez, which came to power in 2018 as a result of
the general elections, does not enjoy wide popular support and is
forced to flirt from time to time with separatists, who are also
mainly representatives of left-wing parties with whom they have
similar positions on many issues. Naturally, the Socialists have to
pay for their support, but P. Sanchez cannot make concessions to
the independence of these provinces from Spain, understanding that
this will lead to irreparable consequences. That is why the current
Madrid authorities are ready to indulge the separatists in matters
that are not related to Spanish political issues and concern other
countries where they have room for manoeuvre, without thinking
about consequences for bilateral relations. Of course, in the name
of staying in power, it is possible to bargain with separatists
like in a bazaar, but not at the expense of the territorial
integrity of other states, creating dangerous precedents that,
sooner or later, will hit the unity of Spain itself. In fact, both
anti-Separatist resolutions of the Spanish parliament can be
qualified as a shot in the foot, which will soon be used by local
separatists of all stripes to disintegrate the Spanish kingdom,'
Mirzazade said.
During the voting in the Spanish parliament the resolution was
also supported by representatives of right-wing Spanish parties for
whom separatism is enemy number one. This can be explained by the
fact that they are willing to do everything possible to 'help' the
Socialist government to go wrong, wring their necks and lose power,
he added.
'If the Spanish parliamentarians are so concerned about the
situation in the South Caucasus, they had better advise their newly
emerged Armenian brothers to hurry up and give up their illusions
and accept the peaceful proposals of President Ilham Aliyev, based
on the principles of international law, territorial integrity and
the inviolability of states, and not to play into the hands of the
Armenian side, which continues its antics, just to avoid it. Sooner
or later Spanish voters, who care more about the interests and
principles of a united Spain than the Armenian MPs paid by the
Armenian diaspora who voted for this resolution, will make their
choice and assess their performance in the forthcoming elections,
which are not far off,' he concluded.
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