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IN ANTICIPATION OF THE ELECTIONS IN THE NKR AZERBAIJAN HIDES ITS HEAD
Leonid Martirossian
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=624:-in-anticipation-of-the-elections-in-the-nkr-azerbaijan-hides-its-head&catid=3:all&Itemid=4
Sunday, 08 April 2012 09:51
As it is known, on March 29, the National Assembly of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic appointed the day of the regular presidential
elections in the NKR - it is July 19, 2012. It is needless to say that
for any country committed to democracy, presidential elections are
an event of great political and national importance predetermining
the way of further development of the state.
The NKR is not an exception, because this truth applies equally
to all states, regardless of their internationally recognized or
unrecognized status. Moreover, one can even say that elections in
an unrecognized state, in addition to purely internal significance,
get also foreign-policy sounding.
Surely, in different ways. A kind of resonator with a negative sign
for the Karabakh elections of all types and levels has always been
Azerbaijan, which starts persistently blowing to the whole world
about the illegality and inadmissibility of their conduct in the NKR.
Azerbaijan would betray itself if it did not respond, and very
nervous, to the coming presidential elections. As expected, the Foreign
Ministry of this country, represented by the head of the press-service,
expressed a negative attitude to the elections, calling them "another
provocation of the Government of Armenia" (?!). It was followed by a
tirade, devoid of any logic, that Armenia "displays complete disrespect
and disregard for the principles and norms of international law,
inflicts another blow to the negotiation process", etc.
A few days earlier, a statement of similar content was also made by
head of the public-political department of the Azerbaijani presidential
administration Novruz Mamedov.
We believe that any sane person will probably ask the question:
and why Armenia? And he will be right, as the elections held in the
NKR, as a democratic procedure of electing the authorities, are an
important constituent of the process of construction and establishment
of independent statehood proclaimed by the people of Nagorno-Karabakh
and not Armenia. And it is in Nagorno-Karabakh and not in Armenia that
the coming, July 19, presidential elections will be the fifth national
elections of the NKR President. And the well-known policy of Azerbaijan
- to distort the configuration of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict and
to present it to the world as confrontation between Baku and Yerevan
is easily seen in accusing Armenia of involvement in the elections
in the NKR. At the same time, like an ostrich, it is burying its head
in the sand, pretending that Nagorno-Karabakh as such does not exist.
Meanwhile, such a position of official Baku, like the similar pose of
an ostrich, is really comical. And regardless of Azerbaijan's hiding
its head or not, Nagorno-Karabakh will not cease to be an equal party
to the conflict. Especially, it will not cease to be a state.
Moreover, the international mediators of the OSCE Minsk Group secured
the fact of "equal party", recognized yet in 1994 in Budapest, by
the fact that their currently proposed settlement project is based
on the principle of nations' self-determinations, which, as it can
be easily guessed, is intended for the NKR.
We should also note another important thing that also has direct
relevance to the settlement process. It is known that the mandate
of the OSCE Minsk Group provides to negotiate with the elected
representatives of the parties to the conflict on the Karabakh
settlement, which the Minsk Group co-chairs do, arriving each time
to the NKR. By the way, even the Azeri authorities of the time of
the current President's father repeatedly asked for a meeting with
the elected representatives of the Karabakh leadership, which those
in Azerbaijan do not want to remember now.
In general, I must say, the rejection of our elections by Azerbaijan
has a range of reasons. Among them, perhaps, is the fact that dozens
of independent observers from various countries and international
organizations will observe the coming presidential elections in the
NKR, as it repeatedly took place. And we can be sure that, as earlier,
they will state the commitment of the citizens of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic to democratic principles and the high level of organization
and conduct of the electoral process. It will be another serious
blow to the pride of Azerbaijan, which on the level of democratic
development is firmly fixed in the lower rows of countries' ranking
and is constantly criticized by international institutions for the
situation with democratic freedoms and human rights. In addition,
the observers and representatives of foreign mass media will tell the
world the truth about Nagorno-Karabakh, which has nothing to do with
the dirty lie being spread by Azerbaijan on the NKR. There is something
for Azerbaijan to fall into hysterics, which we observe today.
Leonid Martirossian
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=624:-in-anticipation-of-the-elections-in-the-nkr-azerbaijan-hides-its-head&catid=3:all&Itemid=4
Sunday, 08 April 2012 09:51
As it is known, on March 29, the National Assembly of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic appointed the day of the regular presidential
elections in the NKR - it is July 19, 2012. It is needless to say that
for any country committed to democracy, presidential elections are
an event of great political and national importance predetermining
the way of further development of the state.
The NKR is not an exception, because this truth applies equally
to all states, regardless of their internationally recognized or
unrecognized status. Moreover, one can even say that elections in
an unrecognized state, in addition to purely internal significance,
get also foreign-policy sounding.
Surely, in different ways. A kind of resonator with a negative sign
for the Karabakh elections of all types and levels has always been
Azerbaijan, which starts persistently blowing to the whole world
about the illegality and inadmissibility of their conduct in the NKR.
Azerbaijan would betray itself if it did not respond, and very
nervous, to the coming presidential elections. As expected, the Foreign
Ministry of this country, represented by the head of the press-service,
expressed a negative attitude to the elections, calling them "another
provocation of the Government of Armenia" (?!). It was followed by a
tirade, devoid of any logic, that Armenia "displays complete disrespect
and disregard for the principles and norms of international law,
inflicts another blow to the negotiation process", etc.
A few days earlier, a statement of similar content was also made by
head of the public-political department of the Azerbaijani presidential
administration Novruz Mamedov.
We believe that any sane person will probably ask the question:
and why Armenia? And he will be right, as the elections held in the
NKR, as a democratic procedure of electing the authorities, are an
important constituent of the process of construction and establishment
of independent statehood proclaimed by the people of Nagorno-Karabakh
and not Armenia. And it is in Nagorno-Karabakh and not in Armenia that
the coming, July 19, presidential elections will be the fifth national
elections of the NKR President. And the well-known policy of Azerbaijan
- to distort the configuration of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict and
to present it to the world as confrontation between Baku and Yerevan
is easily seen in accusing Armenia of involvement in the elections
in the NKR. At the same time, like an ostrich, it is burying its head
in the sand, pretending that Nagorno-Karabakh as such does not exist.
Meanwhile, such a position of official Baku, like the similar pose of
an ostrich, is really comical. And regardless of Azerbaijan's hiding
its head or not, Nagorno-Karabakh will not cease to be an equal party
to the conflict. Especially, it will not cease to be a state.
Moreover, the international mediators of the OSCE Minsk Group secured
the fact of "equal party", recognized yet in 1994 in Budapest, by
the fact that their currently proposed settlement project is based
on the principle of nations' self-determinations, which, as it can
be easily guessed, is intended for the NKR.
We should also note another important thing that also has direct
relevance to the settlement process. It is known that the mandate
of the OSCE Minsk Group provides to negotiate with the elected
representatives of the parties to the conflict on the Karabakh
settlement, which the Minsk Group co-chairs do, arriving each time
to the NKR. By the way, even the Azeri authorities of the time of
the current President's father repeatedly asked for a meeting with
the elected representatives of the Karabakh leadership, which those
in Azerbaijan do not want to remember now.
In general, I must say, the rejection of our elections by Azerbaijan
has a range of reasons. Among them, perhaps, is the fact that dozens
of independent observers from various countries and international
organizations will observe the coming presidential elections in the
NKR, as it repeatedly took place. And we can be sure that, as earlier,
they will state the commitment of the citizens of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic to democratic principles and the high level of organization
and conduct of the electoral process. It will be another serious
blow to the pride of Azerbaijan, which on the level of democratic
development is firmly fixed in the lower rows of countries' ranking
and is constantly criticized by international institutions for the
situation with democratic freedoms and human rights. In addition,
the observers and representatives of foreign mass media will tell the
world the truth about Nagorno-Karabakh, which has nothing to do with
the dirty lie being spread by Azerbaijan on the NKR. There is something
for Azerbaijan to fall into hysterics, which we observe today.