(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 27. The
reintegration of Armenian residents of Karabakh into Azerbaijani
society was discussed at the "Dialogue with Tofik Abbasov" program
on the Baku Network expert platform, trend reports.
The guest of the program, Director of the Caspian
Institute for Strategic Studies Igor Korotchenko, said that the
best guarantor of the security of the Armenian residents of
Karabakh is President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, a
personality who is responsible for his own words and has
international authority.
"Azerbaijan is not just one of many countries; rather,
it is a state that won the second Karabakh war and heads the
Non-Aligned Movement, and during the years of Azerbaijan's
chairmanship in this movement, this organization has reached
completely new frontiers. Azerbaijan is the guarantor of the EU's
energy security. This is a country that is looking to the future.
If the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, with his experience,
his intelligence, and his strategic goal-setting, says that it will
be so, then it will be so," he said.
Korotchenko noted that the Karabakh Economic Region is
an integral part of Azerbaijan, and as President Ilham Aliyev has
repeatedly said, Baku considers Armenians living in Karabakh
citizens of Azerbaijan.
"In general, Azerbaijan's approach is distinguished
not only by pragmatism but also by humanism and, at the same time,
by the desire to do everything so that these pages of the bloody
history that has lasted for 30 years are turned over. Azerbaijan
won the second Karabakh war, defeating Armenia and forcing it to
surrender. And then Azerbaijan behaved very nobly. It stretched out
its hand and said that foremost, the country wants to sign a peace
treaty with Armenia based on the five basic principles proposed by
President Ilham Aliyev in order for interstate relations to be
based on new realities, according to which two countries,
Azerbaijan and Armenia, will clearly assume obligations," he
said.
"After the delimitation and demarcation of the state
border take place, all issues will be resolved. Baku said that
despite the insinuations about "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide",
it is ready to carry out the peaceful integration of the Armenian
residents of Karabakh. Moreover, Baku appointed a special
commissioner who met with Armenian representatives and said that
Azerbaijan is ready to discuss. After that, a new step was taken
when representatives of the Armenian residents of Karabakh were
invited to Baku in order to start concrete negotiations on peaceful
integration," he added.
Korotchenko believes that a detailed roadmap for the
integration of the Armenian residents of Karabakh should be
developed.
"The basic principle, if we are talking about how to
carry out reintegration and establish peace, is the complete
withdrawal of Armenian armed formations from the territory of
Karabakh," he added.
Touching upon the issue of the refusal of the Armenian
side to use the Aghdam-Khankendi road for humanitarian supplies,
Korotchenko stressed that this is exactly the Armenian genocide,
which suits the "leadership" of the separatists in Khankendi.
"Here it is, the Armenian genocide, which the
Armenians themselves arrange against their fellow people. Because
if there is a famine on the territory, as they claim-although I am
more than sure that all these video frames are productions, we know
perfectly well how all this is done, but nevertheless-there is an
option to supply any goods, equipment, or food through Aghdam. But
they deliberately do not do this because this is the way to
reintegration. Reintegration into Azerbaijani society is the path
of the Armenian residents of Karabakh to a bright future," he
said.