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ILLUSIONS ARE A DANGEROUS CATEGORY
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1559:-illusions-are-a-dangerous-category&catid=3:all&Itemid=4
Monday, 08 September 2014 17:55
Illusions are distorted perception of the reality, deception of
perception, which is conditioned by a special state of mind, for
example, fear. Such a definition of illusions is provided by the
encyclopedia.
The behavior of the Azerbaijani authorities demonstrated at all
levels, including the President, allows rightfully stating that this
encyclopedic characteristics very accurately formulates the actions of
the Baku regime, especially with respect to everything that is related
to the Karabakh issue.
The press has already reported that on August 28, the United States
Senate of California adopted, by the overwhelming majority of votes, a
resolution in support for the independence of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic and the free development of its people. The Senate also
decided to submit the resolution to the Congress and the President of
the United States, so that they contribute to the recognition of the
right of the Artsakh people to self-determination. We should note that
this is the fifth American state, which adopted a resolution in
support of the NKR self-determination and democratic independence. We
do not tend to fall into euphoria and assert that the international
recognition of our Republic is not far off. Surely, no. However,
undisputed remains the fact that the resolution of the Senate of
California is the most important political and legal act, which
confirms the consistency of the NKR as a subject of international law
and which should be considered in the context of the democratic
development of the NKR and its commitment to the values of a civilized
community. And this, in turn, creates a reliable background for the
subsequent international recognition of the NKR. We think that the
time will come when quantity is transformed into quality, and the
sooner it happens the better.
Although the resolution of the Senate of California is advisory in
nature, it has greatly alarmed the Azerbaijani authorities. An
official of the country's Foreign Ministry called it "just a piece of
paper". Meanwhile, there is no doubt that simple fear lies behind this
ostentatious disregard. Otherwise, official Baku would not take all
possible measures to prevent the adoption of the resolution and then
to display a very aggressive reaction, accusing the Senators, who
voted for it, of bias. The fact is that those in Azerbaijan cannot
ignore the fact that in the recent years, the tendency to recognize
the rights of the people of Nagorno Karabakh to self-determination of
its own political future has become increasingly evident. They cannot
but understand that the actions of foreign structures, including the
acts in support of the NKR independence by the legislatures of
American states, cause a severe blow to Azerbaijan's policy aimed at
the false and legally unsubstantiated justification of its right to
Artsakh.
Here again appear the notorious illusions of Azerbaijan, which does
not want to see the objective truth and explains the adoption of the
resolution of the Senate of California, like other similar resolutions
of American legislatures, by purely the lobbying activities of the
Armenian Diaspora. Apparently, the fear of the truth does not allow
Baku to admit the obvious fact that there cannot be return to the
realities of the 80s of the Soviet period, that the process of
creating the NKR statehood and its international recognition is
getting progressive and irreversible. As in due time rightly noted by
well-known Russian political analyst Sergei Markedonov, commenting on
the possibility of subjecting Nagorno Karabakh to Azerbaijan, one
cannot enter the same river twice.
But, why only Nagorno Karabakh?! Ilham Aliyev has long and repeatedly
entered the same river, presenting territorial claims not only to
Artsakh, but also to proper Armenia, calling it... Western Azerbaijan.
Having recently visited Horadiz, the Azerbaijani leader said the
following, "Currently, Horadiz is far more developed than their
capital - the ancient Azerbaijani city of Irevan. This is a reality".
Let us add - this is not a reality, but a political brigandage by a
descendant of the wild nomadic tribes that appeared in the
Transcaucasus only two centuries ago, who, however, allows himself to
claim their "rights" to the historical Armenian lands, including
Yerevan, with its nearly 2,800 year-old history.
It should be noted that during the noted trip, Aliyev uttered so much
blatant nonsense that it would be enough for the whole pre-election
campaign. And again, when familiarizing with his verbal exercises, one
cannot help feeling that he lives frank illusions, feeding his own
people with them. Similarly, there was a feeling that the President is
not of the highest opinion of his loyal subjects, since he allows
himself to feed them with ordinary lie. If we group the theses of
Aliyev's speech, we can bring their essence to the fact that Armenia
is about to cease existing as a state, that international law supports
Azerbaijan, that no country will ever recognize the NKR, that as a
result of the recent events at the Line of Contact, "the enemy has
been dealt a devastating blow, from which it still cannot get over",
and that panic and fear reign in Armenia, etc. In short, an endless
chain of lies designed to create an illusion of absolute superiority
over Armenians among ordinary Azerbaijanis. Those Azerbaijanis, who
soberly assess the situation and does not want to believe the fruit of
the sick imagination of their own authorities, honestly and openly
talk about the reality, are usually imprisoned or subjected to severe
persecution. The truth is not inhonor in Azerbaijan.
Does Aliyev realize that illusions are quite a dangerous category?
Does he realize that to base his policy on illusions, or false
calculations, is like building a castle on the sand, which can
collapse any moment, burying its own poor architects under itself?
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN
Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper
http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1559:-illusions-are-a-dangerous-category&catid=3:all&Itemid=4
Monday, 08 September 2014 17:55
Illusions are distorted perception of the reality, deception of
perception, which is conditioned by a special state of mind, for
example, fear. Such a definition of illusions is provided by the
encyclopedia.
The behavior of the Azerbaijani authorities demonstrated at all
levels, including the President, allows rightfully stating that this
encyclopedic characteristics very accurately formulates the actions of
the Baku regime, especially with respect to everything that is related
to the Karabakh issue.
The press has already reported that on August 28, the United States
Senate of California adopted, by the overwhelming majority of votes, a
resolution in support for the independence of the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic and the free development of its people. The Senate also
decided to submit the resolution to the Congress and the President of
the United States, so that they contribute to the recognition of the
right of the Artsakh people to self-determination. We should note that
this is the fifth American state, which adopted a resolution in
support of the NKR self-determination and democratic independence. We
do not tend to fall into euphoria and assert that the international
recognition of our Republic is not far off. Surely, no. However,
undisputed remains the fact that the resolution of the Senate of
California is the most important political and legal act, which
confirms the consistency of the NKR as a subject of international law
and which should be considered in the context of the democratic
development of the NKR and its commitment to the values of a civilized
community. And this, in turn, creates a reliable background for the
subsequent international recognition of the NKR. We think that the
time will come when quantity is transformed into quality, and the
sooner it happens the better.
Although the resolution of the Senate of California is advisory in
nature, it has greatly alarmed the Azerbaijani authorities. An
official of the country's Foreign Ministry called it "just a piece of
paper". Meanwhile, there is no doubt that simple fear lies behind this
ostentatious disregard. Otherwise, official Baku would not take all
possible measures to prevent the adoption of the resolution and then
to display a very aggressive reaction, accusing the Senators, who
voted for it, of bias. The fact is that those in Azerbaijan cannot
ignore the fact that in the recent years, the tendency to recognize
the rights of the people of Nagorno Karabakh to self-determination of
its own political future has become increasingly evident. They cannot
but understand that the actions of foreign structures, including the
acts in support of the NKR independence by the legislatures of
American states, cause a severe blow to Azerbaijan's policy aimed at
the false and legally unsubstantiated justification of its right to
Artsakh.
Here again appear the notorious illusions of Azerbaijan, which does
not want to see the objective truth and explains the adoption of the
resolution of the Senate of California, like other similar resolutions
of American legislatures, by purely the lobbying activities of the
Armenian Diaspora. Apparently, the fear of the truth does not allow
Baku to admit the obvious fact that there cannot be return to the
realities of the 80s of the Soviet period, that the process of
creating the NKR statehood and its international recognition is
getting progressive and irreversible. As in due time rightly noted by
well-known Russian political analyst Sergei Markedonov, commenting on
the possibility of subjecting Nagorno Karabakh to Azerbaijan, one
cannot enter the same river twice.
But, why only Nagorno Karabakh?! Ilham Aliyev has long and repeatedly
entered the same river, presenting territorial claims not only to
Artsakh, but also to proper Armenia, calling it... Western Azerbaijan.
Having recently visited Horadiz, the Azerbaijani leader said the
following, "Currently, Horadiz is far more developed than their
capital - the ancient Azerbaijani city of Irevan. This is a reality".
Let us add - this is not a reality, but a political brigandage by a
descendant of the wild nomadic tribes that appeared in the
Transcaucasus only two centuries ago, who, however, allows himself to
claim their "rights" to the historical Armenian lands, including
Yerevan, with its nearly 2,800 year-old history.
It should be noted that during the noted trip, Aliyev uttered so much
blatant nonsense that it would be enough for the whole pre-election
campaign. And again, when familiarizing with his verbal exercises, one
cannot help feeling that he lives frank illusions, feeding his own
people with them. Similarly, there was a feeling that the President is
not of the highest opinion of his loyal subjects, since he allows
himself to feed them with ordinary lie. If we group the theses of
Aliyev's speech, we can bring their essence to the fact that Armenia
is about to cease existing as a state, that international law supports
Azerbaijan, that no country will ever recognize the NKR, that as a
result of the recent events at the Line of Contact, "the enemy has
been dealt a devastating blow, from which it still cannot get over",
and that panic and fear reign in Armenia, etc. In short, an endless
chain of lies designed to create an illusion of absolute superiority
over Armenians among ordinary Azerbaijanis. Those Azerbaijanis, who
soberly assess the situation and does not want to believe the fruit of
the sick imagination of their own authorities, honestly and openly
talk about the reality, are usually imprisoned or subjected to severe
persecution. The truth is not inhonor in Azerbaijan.
Does Aliyev realize that illusions are quite a dangerous category?
Does he realize that to base his policy on illusions, or false
calculations, is like building a castle on the sand, which can
collapse any moment, burying its own poor architects under itself?
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN
Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper