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Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:10
Escalation of tension on the Line of Contact between the armed forces
of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan is increasingly becoming a topic of
discussion for the international mediators in the Azerbaijani-Karabakh
conflict settlement process, experts and the mass media. Recently,
this issue has actualized even more in connection with the last week
penetration into the territory of the NKR Karvachar region by an
Azerbaijani sabotage and intelligence group, which was neutralized as
a result of the operational activities of the Karabakh side.
The incident caused a wide resonance, however, it should be noted
that it didn't become something extraordinary. In the sense that the
regular armed provocation of Azerbaijan fully fits into the Baku
authorities' policy aimed at creating and maintaining an explosive
situation at the contact-line. We have repeatedly noted that the
Azerbaijani leadership usually destabilizes the situation ahead of a
visit of high-ranking international mediators to the region or in
anticipation of an important meeting under the auspices of the OSCE
Minsk Group, which it considers as a means of pressure on the
participants of the conflict settlement process - whether it's the
co-chairs or Armenia. And it is really so, which makes it more likely
to link the invasion of the Azerbaijani subversive group into the NKR
territory with the upcoming round of talks between Armenia and
Azerbaijan in Paris. However, I would like to emphasize that the
shelling of the positions of both Armenian states, the intensity of
the sniper war, the subversive raids of the Azerbaijani side lately
show the steady upward trend, gaining a permanent and systematic
character.
The actions of official Baku convincingly prove its unwillingness to
settle the conflict on the principles proposed by the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairmen. Moreover, the top political and military leadership of
Azerbaijan is doing everything to frustrate the negotiation process.
Just a couple of days before the current Azerbaijani armed
provocation, in response to the request of the Public Television of
Armenia, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a corresponding
statement, expressing the common position of the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chair states. It unequivocally reads: "We are reminding that the
Joint Statement by the Presidents of Russia, the USA, and France,
issued the last year in Lough Erne, calls for the heads of the parties
to prepare their people for peace and not for war and to refrain from
actions or statements that could increase the tension in the region
and lead to the escalation of the conflict. We hope that this approach
will prevail".
As we can see, prevailing is not the common sense, but the desire of
Baku to aggravate maximally the situation, bringing it to an extremely
dangerous line. The Azerbaijani authorities seem to have decided not
to limit just with standard bellicose rhetoric and to pass to concrete
actions, ignoring the real risk of escalating the tension, with its
possible transformation into full-scale hostilities.
However, in this regard, I would like to draw the attention to the
following fact. While representatives of international organizations,
experts and political analysts speak about the inadmissibility of
steps that could undermine the peace process and the fragile peace
itself, the Azerbaijani side is trying to maximally simplify and even
vulgarize the situation of the failure of its subversive-terrorist
act. In their comments, both official and unofficial representatives
of the Azerbaijani armed sabotage trying to present as a mere tourist
walk ... a group of people yearned for many years on the "native"
places. In their comments, both official and unofficial
representatives of Azerbaijan try to present the armed sabotage merely
as a... tourist walk by a group of people yearned for their "native"
places for many years, as if speaking not about a conflict zone, but,
at least, about the London Hyde Park. It is a kind of extreme tourism
in Azerbaijani. Surely, this version can cause nothing but an ironic
smile. Because why should the nostalgic Azerbaijanis, risking their
lives, with full subversive ammunition, cross the Line of Contact?
But, as it turned out, they did it not to slake for the beauties of
the Artsakh nature, but for specific intelligence and terrorist
activities.
But, to admit, it is not up to smiles, because we are dealing with a
terrorist state, with which it is impossible to agree on anything,
because such "diversionary tours" as the current lead to irreversible
human losses on both sides. But apparently, the lives of people,
including of its own citizens, are nothing for the top leadership of
Azerbaijan, otherwise it would not so thoughtlessly and easily make
them victims of its adventurous policy. It is testified by the
statement of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, related to the
incident, that Azerbaijanis can visit Karabakh whenever they want. In
other words, we should wait for sending another group of "extreme
tourists", i.e. Azerbaijani subversives to the NKR territory, which
are likely to face the same fate. And such destructive and extremely
dangerous actions by official Baku will continue as long as the
authorities of Azerbaijan remain unpunished and do not get the harsh
assessment and condemnation by the international community.
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN
Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1517:-extreme-tourism-in-azerbaijani&catid=3:all&Itemid=4
Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:10
Escalation of tension on the Line of Contact between the armed forces
of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan is increasingly becoming a topic of
discussion for the international mediators in the Azerbaijani-Karabakh
conflict settlement process, experts and the mass media. Recently,
this issue has actualized even more in connection with the last week
penetration into the territory of the NKR Karvachar region by an
Azerbaijani sabotage and intelligence group, which was neutralized as
a result of the operational activities of the Karabakh side.
The incident caused a wide resonance, however, it should be noted
that it didn't become something extraordinary. In the sense that the
regular armed provocation of Azerbaijan fully fits into the Baku
authorities' policy aimed at creating and maintaining an explosive
situation at the contact-line. We have repeatedly noted that the
Azerbaijani leadership usually destabilizes the situation ahead of a
visit of high-ranking international mediators to the region or in
anticipation of an important meeting under the auspices of the OSCE
Minsk Group, which it considers as a means of pressure on the
participants of the conflict settlement process - whether it's the
co-chairs or Armenia. And it is really so, which makes it more likely
to link the invasion of the Azerbaijani subversive group into the NKR
territory with the upcoming round of talks between Armenia and
Azerbaijan in Paris. However, I would like to emphasize that the
shelling of the positions of both Armenian states, the intensity of
the sniper war, the subversive raids of the Azerbaijani side lately
show the steady upward trend, gaining a permanent and systematic
character.
The actions of official Baku convincingly prove its unwillingness to
settle the conflict on the principles proposed by the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chairmen. Moreover, the top political and military leadership of
Azerbaijan is doing everything to frustrate the negotiation process.
Just a couple of days before the current Azerbaijani armed
provocation, in response to the request of the Public Television of
Armenia, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a corresponding
statement, expressing the common position of the OSCE Minsk Group
co-chair states. It unequivocally reads: "We are reminding that the
Joint Statement by the Presidents of Russia, the USA, and France,
issued the last year in Lough Erne, calls for the heads of the parties
to prepare their people for peace and not for war and to refrain from
actions or statements that could increase the tension in the region
and lead to the escalation of the conflict. We hope that this approach
will prevail".
As we can see, prevailing is not the common sense, but the desire of
Baku to aggravate maximally the situation, bringing it to an extremely
dangerous line. The Azerbaijani authorities seem to have decided not
to limit just with standard bellicose rhetoric and to pass to concrete
actions, ignoring the real risk of escalating the tension, with its
possible transformation into full-scale hostilities.
However, in this regard, I would like to draw the attention to the
following fact. While representatives of international organizations,
experts and political analysts speak about the inadmissibility of
steps that could undermine the peace process and the fragile peace
itself, the Azerbaijani side is trying to maximally simplify and even
vulgarize the situation of the failure of its subversive-terrorist
act. In their comments, both official and unofficial representatives
of the Azerbaijani armed sabotage trying to present as a mere tourist
walk ... a group of people yearned for many years on the "native"
places. In their comments, both official and unofficial
representatives of Azerbaijan try to present the armed sabotage merely
as a... tourist walk by a group of people yearned for their "native"
places for many years, as if speaking not about a conflict zone, but,
at least, about the London Hyde Park. It is a kind of extreme tourism
in Azerbaijani. Surely, this version can cause nothing but an ironic
smile. Because why should the nostalgic Azerbaijanis, risking their
lives, with full subversive ammunition, cross the Line of Contact?
But, as it turned out, they did it not to slake for the beauties of
the Artsakh nature, but for specific intelligence and terrorist
activities.
But, to admit, it is not up to smiles, because we are dealing with a
terrorist state, with which it is impossible to agree on anything,
because such "diversionary tours" as the current lead to irreversible
human losses on both sides. But apparently, the lives of people,
including of its own citizens, are nothing for the top leadership of
Azerbaijan, otherwise it would not so thoughtlessly and easily make
them victims of its adventurous policy. It is testified by the
statement of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, related to the
incident, that Azerbaijanis can visit Karabakh whenever they want. In
other words, we should wait for sending another group of "extreme
tourists", i.e. Azerbaijani subversives to the NKR territory, which
are likely to face the same fate. And such destructive and extremely
dangerous actions by official Baku will continue as long as the
authorities of Azerbaijan remain unpunished and do not get the harsh
assessment and condemnation by the international community.
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN
Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper