Karabakh Movement 2.0: Desire To Integrate With Azerbaijan Growing Among Armenians
Date
3/14/2023 5:25:45 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 14. The
dynamics of the development of the situation in the Karabakh region
of Azerbaijan is intensifying; in fact, the segmentation of the
Armenian minority is taking place. And if 35 years ago the cancer
of separatism originated in Karabakh, called the 'Karabakh
Movement' by the Armenians themselves, today there are the
beginnings of a kind of 'Karabakh Movement 2.0' but this time for
reintegration with Azerbaijan.
According to Armenian media and sources, the Armenian
community tends to believe that there really are no other options
left but integration. Moreover, there were also calls for a
positive attitude toward the invitation to the second meeting,
published the day before by the Office of the President of
Azerbaijan. The so-called 'Foreign Ministry' of the separatists
eventually refused to make contact without the mediation of Russian
peacekeepers.
The situation shows that there is a certain split
among Karabakh Armenians: some of them want to live a normal life,
develop and improve their existence. The others, however, intend to
continue to parasitize their own compatriots, plundering resources
belonging to Azerbaijan and profiting from 'struggle',
'self-determination' and other equally loud concepts.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan's position remains unchanged: as
the Azerbaijani president stated, Baku is determined to establish
contacts and dialogue, but no contacts with the Armenian community
were considered until Ruben Vardanyan, the Russian billionaire of
Armenian origin, sent from Moscow, was one of its leaders. As soon
as Vardanyan was 'dismissed', real contacts began, and the first
meeting took place. This is the firm and clear position of Baku:
Azerbaijan is ready to talk if there is constructive dialogue.
And there is more and more understanding of this
position among the Armenian minority. At the same time, the 'war
party'-Araik Harutyunyan, who is afraid of everything, and his
so-called 'officials' - continues to hold their own fellow
compatriots hostage, hoping that they will be able to play for time
forever.
For the stubborn ones, it would be wiser to recall the
other words of President Ilham Aliyev: 'If the separatist movement
had not been started against us, they could live as people do in
all the other parts of Azerbaijan now. The conditions they live in
now are obvious. There are those who have gone and seen the
conditions they live in. Therefore, whoever does not want to become
our citizen, the road is not closed, it is open. They can leave,
they can go by themselves, no-one will hinder them. They can go
under the awning of peacekeepers' trucks or they can go by bus. The
road is open.'
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