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Monday, 15 April 2013 17:13
The press has already reported that on April 10, the House of
Representatives and the Senate of the U.S. state of Maine passed
a joint resolution recognizing the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. The
resolution calls on the U.S. President and Congress to support
the self-determination and democratic independence of the NKR,
to facilitate its constructive involvement in the efforts of the
international community for achieving a just and lasting solution
to the security issues in the strategically significant region. It
should be noted that for less than a year, a few political acts have
already taken place at the level of foreign parliaments, directly
or indirectly recognizing the right of the NKR to self-determination
and establishment of its own independent state.
Let's remember that in 2012, the Houses of Representatives of the U.S.
states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the Legislative Council
of the Australian state of New South Wales have also adopted similar
resolutions. These initiatives include the visit to the NKR in last
November of the Uruguay parliamentary delegation led by the chairman
of the House of Representatives, the establishment in this March of the
Inter-parliamentary Group of Friendship between the Lithuania Republic
and the NKR at the Lithuanian Seimas, and in France - the Circle of
Friendship with the Republic of Artsakh, with the participation of
political figures, MPs, and Senators.
There is no doubt that the international community and, in particular,
the parliamentarians of the above mentioned countries have noticed and
appreciated the commitment of the NKR people and authorities to their
chosen way of democratic development of the Karabakh society. This
is confirmed by the fact that actually in all the above mentioned
resolutions the necessity of supporting the DEMOCRATIC independence
of the NKR is noted, and the statements on the establishment of
the Friendship Groups do not conceal the sympathy for the people
of Artsakh, which is building its independent statehood on the
democratic principles. "We are not alone in this noble enterprise,
and our view is getting greater response", wrote member of the Circle
of Friendship, prominent politician Francois Rochebloine in the French
edition of Le Huffington Post. "The freedom of speech of the citizens
of Nagorno-Karabakh is just the latest example of the movement for
independence, which led to the emergence of more than a dozen new
countries over the past quarter of a century", he noted.
We would like to note another aspect of the pro-Karabakh actions
of foreign countries' parliamentarians. It can be firmly stated that
there is a growing understanding in the world of the incompatibility of
the ways of development of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. There are
more than enough reasons for this conclusion in the legal, political,
historical, and moral spheres. And if generalized, the whole policy
of Azerbaijan towards Nagorno-Karabakh, based on the rabid hatred
of Armenians and mankind, leaves no doubt that the NKR should go its
own way, which its people chose over twenty years ago.
By the way, it fits well in the interests of international democratic
institutions using efforts to promote integration and democratic
processes in the South Caucasus in order to ensure the stability of
the entire region. They cannot but notice the striking difference
between the democratic development of the NKR and the atmosphere
of medieval dictatorship established in Azerbaijan. Several human
rights organizations, in particular, the well-known Freedom House,
called Azerbaijan a non-democratic country. The Baku regime actually
defies the international community, ignoring its calls for peace and
cooperation. A bright example of this is the recent statement of the
Azerbaijani President that "we use every opportunity to keep Armenia
in its current state of isolation". Given that the EU program Eastern
Partnership is aimed specifically at the development of cooperation
between the countries of the South Caucasus.
Yes, the blockade of Armenia and the NKR, their isolation from the
processes taking place in the world, the hindering of the development
of the two Armenian states continue to be the cornerstones in the
foreign policy of Azerbaijan. By the way, Francois Rochebloine did
not hide that "we want to break the isolation, which the people of
Nagorno-Karabakh have experienced for 22 years, and to make the latter
part of regional development projects, along with the other nations
of the South Caucasus". Hence is the extremely nervous reaction of
official Baku to the actions of the parliamentarians of the USA,
Uruguay, Lithuania, and France. Because it understands that the
general awareness of the international community of the real events
in the NKR, its goals and achievements in the socio-economic sphere,
in the field of democracy and human rights, first of all, underlines
the contrast between dictatorial Azerbaijan and democratic Artsakh.
Secondly, it nullifies all its efforts on presenting Nagorno-Karabakh
to the world as a political outcast ignoring international laws.
Official Baku was quick to respond also to the resolution of the House
of Representatives and the Senate of the state of Maine. Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, noting that the adoption of the
resolution was backed by the Armenian Diaspora, said that such actions
hindered the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. These
words are not just cynicism, because it is Azerbaijan that with
its counterproductive steps persistently impedes the efforts of the
international mediators on the peaceful settlement of the conflict.
But, first of all, it is its unwillingness to see the objective
truth, which explains its craven desire to ascribe the adoption of
the resolution exclusively to the Armenian Diaspora. And the truth
is that an objective process of recognition of NKR people's right to
self-determination of their political future is taking place in the
world. And this process is apparently gaining a progressive character.
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1007:--and-this-process-is-gaining-a-progressive-character&catid=3:all&Itemid=4
Monday, 15 April 2013 17:13
The press has already reported that on April 10, the House of
Representatives and the Senate of the U.S. state of Maine passed
a joint resolution recognizing the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. The
resolution calls on the U.S. President and Congress to support
the self-determination and democratic independence of the NKR,
to facilitate its constructive involvement in the efforts of the
international community for achieving a just and lasting solution
to the security issues in the strategically significant region. It
should be noted that for less than a year, a few political acts have
already taken place at the level of foreign parliaments, directly
or indirectly recognizing the right of the NKR to self-determination
and establishment of its own independent state.
Let's remember that in 2012, the Houses of Representatives of the U.S.
states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the Legislative Council
of the Australian state of New South Wales have also adopted similar
resolutions. These initiatives include the visit to the NKR in last
November of the Uruguay parliamentary delegation led by the chairman
of the House of Representatives, the establishment in this March of the
Inter-parliamentary Group of Friendship between the Lithuania Republic
and the NKR at the Lithuanian Seimas, and in France - the Circle of
Friendship with the Republic of Artsakh, with the participation of
political figures, MPs, and Senators.
There is no doubt that the international community and, in particular,
the parliamentarians of the above mentioned countries have noticed and
appreciated the commitment of the NKR people and authorities to their
chosen way of democratic development of the Karabakh society. This
is confirmed by the fact that actually in all the above mentioned
resolutions the necessity of supporting the DEMOCRATIC independence
of the NKR is noted, and the statements on the establishment of
the Friendship Groups do not conceal the sympathy for the people
of Artsakh, which is building its independent statehood on the
democratic principles. "We are not alone in this noble enterprise,
and our view is getting greater response", wrote member of the Circle
of Friendship, prominent politician Francois Rochebloine in the French
edition of Le Huffington Post. "The freedom of speech of the citizens
of Nagorno-Karabakh is just the latest example of the movement for
independence, which led to the emergence of more than a dozen new
countries over the past quarter of a century", he noted.
We would like to note another aspect of the pro-Karabakh actions
of foreign countries' parliamentarians. It can be firmly stated that
there is a growing understanding in the world of the incompatibility of
the ways of development of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. There are
more than enough reasons for this conclusion in the legal, political,
historical, and moral spheres. And if generalized, the whole policy
of Azerbaijan towards Nagorno-Karabakh, based on the rabid hatred
of Armenians and mankind, leaves no doubt that the NKR should go its
own way, which its people chose over twenty years ago.
By the way, it fits well in the interests of international democratic
institutions using efforts to promote integration and democratic
processes in the South Caucasus in order to ensure the stability of
the entire region. They cannot but notice the striking difference
between the democratic development of the NKR and the atmosphere
of medieval dictatorship established in Azerbaijan. Several human
rights organizations, in particular, the well-known Freedom House,
called Azerbaijan a non-democratic country. The Baku regime actually
defies the international community, ignoring its calls for peace and
cooperation. A bright example of this is the recent statement of the
Azerbaijani President that "we use every opportunity to keep Armenia
in its current state of isolation". Given that the EU program Eastern
Partnership is aimed specifically at the development of cooperation
between the countries of the South Caucasus.
Yes, the blockade of Armenia and the NKR, their isolation from the
processes taking place in the world, the hindering of the development
of the two Armenian states continue to be the cornerstones in the
foreign policy of Azerbaijan. By the way, Francois Rochebloine did
not hide that "we want to break the isolation, which the people of
Nagorno-Karabakh have experienced for 22 years, and to make the latter
part of regional development projects, along with the other nations
of the South Caucasus". Hence is the extremely nervous reaction of
official Baku to the actions of the parliamentarians of the USA,
Uruguay, Lithuania, and France. Because it understands that the
general awareness of the international community of the real events
in the NKR, its goals and achievements in the socio-economic sphere,
in the field of democracy and human rights, first of all, underlines
the contrast between dictatorial Azerbaijan and democratic Artsakh.
Secondly, it nullifies all its efforts on presenting Nagorno-Karabakh
to the world as a political outcast ignoring international laws.
Official Baku was quick to respond also to the resolution of the House
of Representatives and the Senate of the state of Maine. Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, noting that the adoption of the
resolution was backed by the Armenian Diaspora, said that such actions
hindered the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. These
words are not just cynicism, because it is Azerbaijan that with
its counterproductive steps persistently impedes the efforts of the
international mediators on the peaceful settlement of the conflict.
But, first of all, it is its unwillingness to see the objective
truth, which explains its craven desire to ascribe the adoption of
the resolution exclusively to the Armenian Diaspora. And the truth
is that an objective process of recognition of NKR people's right to
self-determination of their political future is taking place in the
world. And this process is apparently gaining a progressive character.
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN