(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 11. Armenia once
again chooses same old tactics of slandering Azerbaijan and Türkiye
on various international platforms and in the media, Parvin
Mirzazade, Ambassador-at-Large of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry,
writes in his latest article, trend reports.
'The second Karabakh war, which ended in Armenia's defeat, put
an end to the long-standing conflict and created conditions for the
establishment of a zone of peace and security in the South Caucasus
region. But, instead of accepting the reality and outstretched hand
of Azerbaijan, Armenia continues to pretend to reject
reconciliation, secretly hoping that by postponing a peace
agreement, it can reverse history,' he said.
As Mirzazade pointed out, such tactics did not find the expected
response from the CSTO allies, who explained that all Armenia's
complaints against Azerbaijan are unfounded, since the border
should be demarcated first. Yerevan then chose international
organizations and foreign countries where the Armenian diaspora is
strong, and where Islamophobia and Turkophobia often thrive.
'Now any meeting between Armenian officials and their foreign
counterparts in bilateral and multilateral formats turns into
spreading lies and misinformation, as well as slander against
Azerbaijan. Moreover, Armenian media are constantly distorting the
information about the meetings of Armenian officials with foreign
representatives in their own interests, changing the essence and
meaning of the negotiating text, thereby showing the Armenian
people, that the international community supports Armenia's 'fair'
position. In their reports on the meetings, the foreign partners
allegedly use Armenian names of Azerbaijani settlements in support
of Armenia,' he noted.
'Meanwhile, the main voice of Armenian slander is the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, headed by Ararat Mirzoyan. Armenian
diplomats under his leadership use every opportunity to smear and
complain against Azerbaijan, pointing to the 'democratic' nature of
the Armenian leadership, which is not above 'human rights and
humanism'. It is interesting how selectively these principles can
be combined in Armenian diplomacy, which for almost 30 years
justified the occupation of Azerbaijani territories and the
expulsion of almost 1 million Azerbaijanis,' Mirzazade said.
'While on a working visit to Germany, Mirzoyan received an
unexpected blow from his German colleague Annalena Baerbock. At a
joint press conference, she directly pointed out that 'the
international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is not
delimited, and this provokes shootings. Without a clear border,
peace is far away. Germany is ready to assist in the delimitation
of the border,' thereby putting an end to all his speculations and
fables that Azerbaijani troops allegedly occupied part of the
territory of Armenia,' he noted.
As Mirzazade stressed, having achieved nothing in the diplomatic
field and having no real military power, the Armenian leadership
has recently been intensively discussing the deployment of some
international forces in the region, on one hand, and, on the other,
requiring an indefinite extension of the presence of Russian
peacekeepers in Karabakh, without any moral or legal right to do
so, since this is the internationally recognized territory of
Azerbaijan and no international force can be there without the
consent of the Azerbaijani authorities.
'Since Azerbaijan is strongly against these provocative
proposals, all Armenian initiatives, therefore, are just bluff. No
matter how hard the Armenian side tries, all its efforts are in
vain. It would be better for the Armenian leadership to return to
the negotiating table and take concrete steps to fulfill its
obligations under the trilateral statements on the opening of new
transport corridors and normalization of relations with neighboring
countries. Instead of shedding tears over the blockade of Armenia,
into which it plunged itself by starting a conflict with Azerbaijan
back in 1988, the Armenian leadership should become wiser and, at
least, begin design and survey work on the construction of a
railway and a highway through Western Zangazur, since the
Azerbaijani section of these roads in the direction of the border
will be ready soon. Azerbaijan supports the creation of a zone of
peace and cooperation in the South Caucasus, and the sooner Armenia
abandons its intimidating diplomacy and starts thinking about
peace, the better for the Armenian people and everyone in the
region,' he concluded.