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NO PRINCIPAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CRIMEAN AND KARABAKH EVENTS
Legal Monitor Worldwide
March 19, 2014 Wednesday
The referendum took place in the Crimea on 16 March.
Turnout, according to official data, was 82.71 percent of voters. Of
those who went to the polls, 96.6 percent were in favor of joining
the Russian Federation on the rights of a subject.
According to Seyidov, the referendum held in the Crimea is not
legitimate, since it fundamentally violates the laws of international
law.
"If we take as a basis the same principles and norms of international
law, between the events in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Crimea there is
no fundamental difference.
The only difference from the Crimea and Karabakh is that no ethnic
cleansing was carried out in the Crimea," Seyidov said.
"In addition, one-sided referendum contradicts the Republican
Constitution, as neither Azerbaijan nor Ukraine Constitution allows
local referendums [in any separate area]. What kind of legitimacy
can we argue about if on the one hand, it is a frame of nations to
self-determination and on the other hand the rights of minorities,
in this case the Crimean Tatars, is ignored?" said the expert.
According to the expert, there was a complete collapse of the system
of international law established at the time high and mighty.
"And now we are seeing how this system began to work against their
authors. Figuratively speaking, there is a transformation of 'power
of law' into 'law of power' that is, the superiority of 'realpolitic'
over idealism.
In the theory of international law, there are two schools: the school
of realists who stand on the position that the strong is the one who
is right, and the school of idealists who believe that the law should
be paramount and it must be obeyed by all, including the strongest. So
today, there was a victory of the school of "realpolitic" over the
school of idealism. Now there is no power that could stop the Crimean
events. Today Ukraine is divided into two parts, as it happened at
the time with Germany.
Of course, the divided Ukraine will enter into NATO the same way NATO
received the divided Germany (or rather the western part of Germany).
It will be followed by separated Moldova, Georgia, and the world will
wait for the end of the second Cold War and the emergence of another
"Gorbachev". History is characterized by repetition, but from it we
must be able to draw the right conclusions," Seyidov concluded.© 2014
Legal Monitor Worldwide.
Legal Monitor Worldwide
March 19, 2014 Wednesday
The referendum took place in the Crimea on 16 March.
Turnout, according to official data, was 82.71 percent of voters. Of
those who went to the polls, 96.6 percent were in favor of joining
the Russian Federation on the rights of a subject.
According to Seyidov, the referendum held in the Crimea is not
legitimate, since it fundamentally violates the laws of international
law.
"If we take as a basis the same principles and norms of international
law, between the events in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Crimea there is
no fundamental difference.
The only difference from the Crimea and Karabakh is that no ethnic
cleansing was carried out in the Crimea," Seyidov said.
"In addition, one-sided referendum contradicts the Republican
Constitution, as neither Azerbaijan nor Ukraine Constitution allows
local referendums [in any separate area]. What kind of legitimacy
can we argue about if on the one hand, it is a frame of nations to
self-determination and on the other hand the rights of minorities,
in this case the Crimean Tatars, is ignored?" said the expert.
According to the expert, there was a complete collapse of the system
of international law established at the time high and mighty.
"And now we are seeing how this system began to work against their
authors. Figuratively speaking, there is a transformation of 'power
of law' into 'law of power' that is, the superiority of 'realpolitic'
over idealism.
In the theory of international law, there are two schools: the school
of realists who stand on the position that the strong is the one who
is right, and the school of idealists who believe that the law should
be paramount and it must be obeyed by all, including the strongest. So
today, there was a victory of the school of "realpolitic" over the
school of idealism. Now there is no power that could stop the Crimean
events. Today Ukraine is divided into two parts, as it happened at
the time with Germany.
Of course, the divided Ukraine will enter into NATO the same way NATO
received the divided Germany (or rather the western part of Germany).
It will be followed by separated Moldova, Georgia, and the world will
wait for the end of the second Cold War and the emergence of another
"Gorbachev". History is characterized by repetition, but from it we
must be able to draw the right conclusions," Seyidov concluded.© 2014
Legal Monitor Worldwide.