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    AZERBAIJANI MP: ARMENIA SEEKS "TASTY MORSEL" OF GEORGIAN LAND

    news.az
    Nov 25 2009
    Azerbaijan

    Nizami Jafarov Nizami Jafarov, a member of parliament for the ruling
    New Azerbaijan Party, has said that Armenia would like to lay claims
    to Georgian territory.

    "If one looks closely, it becomes clear that all the origins and
    scenarios of conflicts in the South Caucasus are strikingly similar,"
    MP Nizami Jafarov said, commenting to 1news.az on the current tensions
    between Georgia and Armenia.

    "The main cause of the conflict between Georgia and Armenia is a
    national history, which is mostly artificial. By reading the history of
    the past, Armenians and Georgians are turning it into an ideological
    and political factor today. Armenians cannot say 'goodbye' to the
    tales of past years about 'Great Armenia', invented by the church
    and the nationalist ideologists of the Armenian people.

    Unfortunately, this is why Armenian-Georgian relations may become an
    inflammatory factor of destabilization in the South Caucasus in the
    long run," Jafarov said.

    "A third party, Azerbaijan, which by virtue of its mentality has
    never had claims on other people's territories, usually suffered
    more than others as a result. But today the situation is changing and
    Azerbaijan's enemies are no longer able to make any claims. Therefore,
    Armenians and their foreign backers have chosen Georgia as the weak
    link in the South Caucasus. Their appetites are fuelled by the fact
    that Georgia is losing the territories that were included in it in
    Soviet times. Armenia has an irresistible desire to tear off a tasty
    morsel of Georgian land.

    "Therefore, Armenians are trying hard to exaggerate their own problems
    with Georgians, thereby, preparing the ground to justify before
    the world community possible future aggression against neighbouring
    Georgia," the MP said.

    "As for Azerbaijan, they will still have a big problem and being aware
    of this Armenians throughout the world are developing a long-term
    defence strategy in the hope of rescuing their state. The Karabakh
    conflict has awakened the people of Azerbaijan who are now going
    through a phase of demographic growth. That is why the Azerbaijani
    people are calm about their future and confident of victory over
    their enemies and the liberation of all the occupied territories in
    the near future," Jafarov concluded.
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