(MENAFN- AzerNews) By Yusif Abbaszade
Armenia continues to be guided by double standards and seeks
compromises on issues that relate to Azebaijan's state independence
and sovereignty.
Rejecting the winner's proposal to hammer out a peace deal to
secure lasting peace in the region and mutual recognition of each
other's territorial integrity, Armenia remains a major source of
instability and threatens to push the region into another bloody
conflict.
On the other hand, with its status of a defeated state, Armenia
does not give up behaving pompously, pretending to be dominant,
daring to dictate its terms on Azerbaijan, which seems completely
ridiculous and absurd amid the political realities dominant in the
region.
Dissatisfied with the present-day state of affairs in the region
and avoiding Baku's feasible peace proposal, Armenia is taking
steps that run against logic and obstructs Karabakh's ethnic
Armenians from rapprochement with Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan's invitation to leaders of ethnic Armenians in
Karabakh for the second meeting in Baku was turned down by the
separatists under pressure from Yerevan. The core of Baku's move is
to overcome problems and discuss political, economic, social, and
pertaining issues to complete the separatist region's
re-integration into Azerbaijan.
However, the refusal of Baku's invitation deprives the
separatist part of Karabakh of the influx of investment minimum and
keeps the tension mounting, though it is a day's work for the
Azerbaijani military forces to disarm the remnants of the Armenian
army.
The first meeting was held in Khojaly a few days ago and looked
into issues related to the illicit exploitation of natural
resources. Shortly after the meeting, the so-called head of the
Armenian community of Karabakh, Arayik Harutyunyan, made a blunt
statement in which he repeated that“there would never be a return
of the inhabitants of the Armenian-populated territory of Karabakh
under the control of Russian peacekeeping contingent to
Azerbaijan”.
However, Aratyunyan did not take into account a major aspect of
the issue, namely, he is no longer able to resolve issues of
strategic realities, and the entire Karabakh clan should be
grateful to Azerbaijan for the way they are treated and
persistently invited to take into consideration the realities and
the balance of forces plus economic might and military prowess.
“Negotiations can only take place between equal parties, with
the participation of international mediators, represented by the
co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group. The format - Karabakh,
Azerbaijan, Armenia - was fixed back in 1994,” a Karabakh
separatist said in response to the invitation of Azerbaijan's
presidential administration.
In this regard, President Ilham Aliyev has repeatedly lashed out
at the OSCE Minsk Group for the failure to live up to the mandate.
Speaking at the meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State in
Astana, the Azerbaijani president stated that the result of the
28-year-long work of the OSCE Minsk Group on the settlement of the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict was equal to zero.
Armenia is simply trying to win time hiding behind international
law and using the OSCE Minsk Group as a tool for the manipulation
of the process. Such pretense obviously cannot last long and
Azerbaijan does not intend to tolerate this circus led by the
separatists.
The only option that has not yet lost its efficiency in this
matter is to resolve the conflict through a peace agreement. All
other options that the Karabakh clan considers will not bring any
dividends. The idea of finding new allies has simply failed.
It will not be possible to continue neglecting the loyalty of
Azerbaijan and use it for granted. Sooner or later, the criminal
Karabakh clan will have to answer for what they have done to their
people. Being a self-sufficient country, Azerbaijan essentially
loses nothing, and Armenia, in turn, loses their resources and
time.
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