(MENAFN- AzerNews) Foreign Ministry: Azerbaijan will ensure the rights of Armenian
residents living in Karabakh on the basis of the country's
Constitution, Azernews reports.
For almost 30 years, the Republic of Azerbaijan has faced
Armenia's military aggression, occupation of our territories,
massacres of Azerbaijanis, not to mention the elderly, women and
children, and almost one million Azerbaijanis have become
internally displaced persons and refugees.
Despite recognizing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan in four resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council
in 1993 and demanding the immediate withdrawal of the occupation
forces from the territories of Azerbaijan, Armenia did not ignore
all these calls, on the contrary, it further strengthened the
status quo based on occupation, and in the occupied territories
deliberately destroyed the historical and cultural heritage of the
Azerbaijani people and pursued a policy of illegal settlement. The
Armenian leadership made provocative statements such as "Karabakh
is Armenia and that's it" and threatened Azerbaijan with "a new war
for the sake of new territories".
In 2020, during the 44-day Patriotic War, the Azerbaijani people
under the leadership of the President, victorious
Commander-in-Chief Mr. Ilham Aliyev won a historic victory and put
an end to the occupation of our lands. Despite 30 years of
occupation and deprivation, soon after the Patriotic War, the
Azerbaijani side proposed basic principles and a peace treaty to
normalize relations between the two countries on the basis of
mutual recognition and respect for territorial integrity,
sovereignty and border. Despite the fact that the Armenian side did
not respond to Azerbaijan's peace initiatives for a long time and
delayed the process under various pretexts, the Azerbaijani side
resolutely continued its good faith efforts to promote initiatives
towards a peace treaty, delimitation of borders and opening of
communications.
At the same time, the Azerbaijani authorities took consistent
steps towards dialog with the local Armenian residents of the
Karabakh region, the construction of a new Lachin road, the use of
small hydroelectric power plants in the Lachin region, a number of
contacts towards the use and management of the Sarsang reservoir,
as well as dialog with the residents of Armenia in the initial
periods had positive results. On the other hand, the Armenian side,
on the contrary, made an unreasonable proposal such as "ensuring
the rights and security of Karabakh Armenians through
Baku-Khankendi negotiations within the framework of international
mechanism", hindered contacts between Azerbaijan and local Armenian
residents, and actually continued its territorial claims to our
country under a different name.
Contrary to the provisions of the November 10, 2020 statement on
the suspension of all military activities and other international
obligations, as a result of Armenia's intensive mining of
Azerbaijani territories, importation and burial of mines produced
in 2021 in Azerbaijani territories, as a result of the
international community deliberately turning a blind eye to
Armenia's mine threat Since November 2020, 303 Azerbaijanis,
including two journalists, have fallen victim to anti-personnel
mines.
Contrary to Armenia's commitments, it has not completely
withdrawn its armed forces from our lands, on the contrary, it has
rotated them through the Lachin road, supplied them with weapons
and ammunition, continued to finance them from Armenia's state
budget, and plundered Azerbaijan's natural resources.
In order to control its borders and prevent illegal actions of
Armenia, Azerbaijan established the Lachin border crossing point on
its sovereign territories. Despite the fact that Azerbaijan ensured
the passage of Armenian residents, the International Committee of
the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Russian peacekeeping contingent
through the border crossing, the Armenian side spread false claims
about the "tense humanitarian situation" in the region in order to
continue its illegal activities on our territories. At the same
time, on June 15, our border guards were fired at, an attempt was
made to smuggle, and on July 26, trucks were sent to the territory
of Azerbaijan without authorization.
Despite the fact that the Azerbaijani side put forward a number
of proposals, including the use of the Aghdam-Khankendi road and
other alternative roads to meet the needs of the residents of
Armenia, and they were supported by the European Union and the
ICRC, the Armenian side resisted those proposals and entered the
territory by erecting concrete barriers on the alternative roads.
The blocking of Armenia's claims regarding the humanitarian
situation once again showed that they are political blackmail and
manipulation.
Armenia's goal is to attract third parties to the region, expand
the geography of tension and derail the peace process.All this,
especially the military provocations constantly committed by
illegal military formations, including the recently intensified
radio-electronic interference with civilian aircraft, is
unacceptable and unacceptable.
All these changes that have taken place in recent days
Military provocations, including the recently intensified
electronic interference against civilian flights, are intolerable
and unacceptable.
Responsibility for all these provocations that have taken place
in recent days falls on Armenia and its leadership, which continues
its illegal military presence on the territory of Azerbaijan,
encourages separatism and hinders reintegration efforts.
"It is unacceptable that a number of countries and international
organizations, which have turned a blind eye to the occupation of
our territories for thirty years, make biased statements against
Azerbaijan. These countries and international organizations have
ignored the presence of Armenian armed forces on the territory of
Azerbaijan and Armenia's blocking of communications for the past
three years. We demand from the countries and international
organizations deceived by Armenia's manipulations and making biased
statements to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan, not to interfere in the internal affairs of our country
and to put an end to the policy of double standards. ." .
"Azerbaijan will ensure the rights of Armenia's residents living
in its Karabakh region on the basis of the country's Constitution
and will resolutely suppress any steps against its sovereignty and
territorial integrity," the statement emphasized.
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