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    VLADIMIR KAZIMIROV: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND THE CONFLICT IN KARABAKH WITHOUT NAKHIJEVAN

    ArmInfo
    2010-05-05 11:19:00

    ArmInfo. It is impossible to understand the conflict in Karabakh
    without Nakhijevan, says Vladimir Kazimirov, the ex-co-chair of
    the OSCE Minsk Group for settlement of the Karabakh conflict, in
    an interview with Azerbaijani 3View News and Analytical Agency in
    response to allegations by Araz Alizade, Chairman of the Social
    Democratic Party of Azerbaijan.

    "A series of conflicts between Armenians and Azerbaijanis resulted in
    delimitation, by force and through "soft" pressing. It is not easy to
    overcome this. It requires time and cautiousness. Mass outcomes are
    very rarely voluntary. One can hardy remember now how many Armenian
    lived in Nakhijevan. Let's imagine that they want to return there
    within shortest period of time. What will Baku say? It can say
    demagogically "Welcome", but what it will actually mean?" Kazimirov
    says. Casting doubt on Alizade's figures related "the refugees from
    Karabakh," Kazimirov says that "it is one thing if the residents
    of the entire Karabakh, and not only of the Nagorny Karabakh, are
    in question, but it is quite another thing if it is the number of
    refugees from Nagorny Karabakh. That is really out of sight!" The
    former mediator recalled that the census of 1989 in Nagorny Karabakh
    registered a little more than 40,000 Azerbaijanis

    "If several thousands of them had already left Nagorny Karabakh then,
    the number of Azerbaijanis could be hardly 45,000 in Nagorny Karabakh.

    This figure could not grow to 227,000 over 10 years and reach 250,000
    by present. Demography cannot develop so sharply," Kazimirov says.

    "What's the good of recalling who and where lived centuries ago? No
    one will return the US territory to Red Indians. No one will offer
    Seljuks to return deep into Asia etc. "What has happened cannot be
    undone even if the balance is negative, for instance, in the case of
    the Crimea. One must reason from the given situation and not from
    the past. It is better leaving wars in past centuries. I trust in
    human intellect and ability to find a good way from any deadlock,"
    Kazimirov says.

    As regards propaganda, Kazmirov says "propaganda feeds peoples with
    impurity and miasmas." "They in Azerbaijan often complain that the
    world community does not display understanding and solidarity with the
    victim of aggression, does not exert pressure on aggressor and does
    not properly demand it to return the territories. But, many countries
    and international organizations understand this complicate conflict
    differently than you propagate. Not everything is so easy. The
    conflict has prehistory. It was the other party that resorted to
    force settlement and military actions. It was not an armed attack by
    Armenians, it was a complex and multidimensional escalation of mutual
    enmity. The right to self-defense is stipulated by the UN Statute
    as a response by a country to an armed attack and not as replay
    of war in 16 years," Kazimirov says. He recalls that the general
    demand then was to cease the fire. "Who opposed that demand with
    hope to defeat the rival? Who had been rejecting the 4 resolutions
    of the UN Security Council for a year? Who had led everything to the
    situation when it stopped accepting the resolutions on Karabakh? It
    is only the UN Security Council that is empowered to define the act
    of aggression like the threat to peace. Is there any UN Security
    Council resolution that defines an aggression by Armenia? Occupation
    that was the result of continuing military actions was registered but
    classified as occupation by "local Armenian forces". Russia more than
    any other country has directly told Yerevan that Armenia is also a
    party to the conflict and not only Nagorny Karabakh. But Yerevan had
    not been ready to perceive that for a long time," Kazimirov says. He
    highlights that propaganda restraint is one of the key requirements
    to the parties to the conflict in the way towards peace in the region.
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