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    PRES OF AZERBAIJAN CONTRADICTS HIS FOREIGN MINISTER ON KARABAKH OPTIMISM
    Armen Hareyan

    HULIQ.com
    Nov 8 2010
    SC

    The Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan sharply
    critiqued the war rhetoric of the president of Azerbaijan over
    Nagorno Karabakh, after the latter said his country will use force,
    if necessary, to liberate territorial integrity, without any regard
    to people's right to self-determination. Last week, the foreign
    minister of Azerbaijan spoke of optimism after Astrakhan meeting:
    an attitude that apparently is not shared by his president.

    On October 27th the president of Russian Dmitri Medvedev hosted a
    meeting in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan with his Armenian
    and Azeri counterparts. After the meeting Medvedev also spoke of
    certain optimism saying that "the general principles for settling
    the Nagorno-Karabakh problem could be drafted in time for the OSCE
    summit that will take place on December 1-2, 2010 in Astana." The
    main agreement in Astrakhan was the exchange of prisoners, which mean
    taking steps that would develop mutual trust between the two sides.

    Last week the foreign minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov said
    that he expected the summit in Astana to become "a turning point
    in the resolution of the Karabakh conflict and all the same he did
    not rule out the preparation of the roadmap on the settlement of the
    situation in the South Caucasus region." His optimism is not shared
    by his country's president Ilham Aliyev who yesterday said Azerbaijan
    will resort to the military solution if the talks fail.

    "The Azerbaijani state will restore its territorial integrity through
    war. I do not doubt that we have all the opportunities including
    combat readiness, material and technical maintenance, sufficient
    arms and ammunition, a professional army, high spirit and the will
    of the Azerbaijani people. We are able to restore the territorial
    integrity of the country through war. And the enemy must know and
    does know this," Aliyev said yesterday. He also went on to say "the
    current Armenian state is formed on historical Azerbaijani land,"
    a rhetoric totally contradicting the achievements of the negotiation
    process mediated by Russia, France and U.S..

    Armenia did not appreciate Azerbaijan's threat of force Armenian
    response to the use of force and the claim on its territory was sharp
    and swift. Commenting on the provocative statements by president Aliyev
    the deputy foreign minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan released
    the following statement. The statement is the partial translation
    from the Russian version sent to Huliq by email from the Armenian
    Foreign Ministry.

    "Obviously the head of Azerbaijan continues to ignore his country's
    own obligations to the international community and mediators, as
    wells as acts cynically contrary to the documents which he himself
    had signed in Mayndorfe and Astrakhan. He ignores the contemporary
    international law and tries to act from the insolvent position of
    the law of force. Astrakhan declaration calls for the strengthening
    of confidence building measures through an exchange of prisoners and
    dead bodies, but Ilham Aliyev is using this process from exactly the
    opposit angle: to inflame tensions."

    Kocharyan also said Aliyev sends death commandos to the line of
    conflict "who according to his confession, knew in advance that they
    will not come back alive." He added that Aliyev then buries these
    soldiers solemnly in the meanwhile burring his nation's hopes of
    resolving the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh through compromise.

    Azerbaijan's war rhetoric on election day yesterday, certainly do
    not contribute to confidence-building measures ahead of the Astana
    meeting. Remains to be seen how the presidents of Russia, France and
    USA, who have invested so much effort and time to peacefully resolve
    the conflict will respond to this war-like rhetoric of Azerbaijan.




    From: A. Papazian
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