Posted 28 February 2007 - 12:46 PM
ILHAM ALIYEV: “OUR POLICY MUST BE AGGRESSIVE, IT MUST ATTACK”
Monday Azeri President Ilham Aliyev addressed the audience in the course of the Parliament’s fall session.
“We should switch to the information and economic attack and strengthen our external potential”, stated I. Aliyev speaking about the ways of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s settlement, Day.az reports.
Aliyev reminded that being elected a President he had set increase of the military expenditure a principal goal. “We should put pressure on Armenia, otherwise it will hardy liberate our territories. We should also be ready for a war”, the President underscored. At the same time Aliyev noted using both political and economic factors Azerbaijan would be able to turn the heat on Armenia. “Yet, after Azerbaijan becomes a hundred times stronger than Armenia, the war may become unnecessary”, he believes.
According to the state’s Head, some opponents’ reproaches that the conflict has not been settled are groundless. “It happens because Azerbaijan cannot cope with unfavorable proposals. As a President I will not go to the proposals that do not meet the Azerbaijan’s interests. It is an issue number one, all our efforts should be directed to this”, the President stated.
Aliyev informed that the OSCE Minsk group Co-Chairs were arriving in the region current week.
“We do not deny the format, however, we believe other international organizations can also contribute to the peacemaking process”, he concluded.
Day.az, October 2, 2006
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DE FACTO INFORMATION-ANALYTICS AGENCY’S COMMENT
DE FACTO Information-Analytics Agency has repeatedly noted that if Azerbaijan resumed hostilities it would inevitably result in this state’s destruction. The Armenian armed subdivisions can terminate the Azerbaijani Republic’s short history. Perhaps, Azerbaijan must be ready for a war, as the first in the line of succession President believes. However, the Azerbaijan’s problem is that the Armenian subdivisions are ‘’ready” for such a course of events. And first of all it concerns the moral spirit’s level, though, as for armaments, we do not lag behind the Azeri army that spends hundreds of millions for its needs.
Generally speaking, a war, blasphemously as it may sound, is favorable for Armenians, who will face a country stuck in corruption and mutual accusations, where a part (the Turks) tries to assimilate all the national minorities. Nevertheless, even taking into consideration the situation, Armenia is peaceable as always, offering constructive approaches to the conflict’s settlement every time, unlike its reflexive neighbor that doubts if to begin a war with Armenia or not, yet, under condition that “Azerbaijan is a hundred times stronger than Armenia”.
However, Aliyev is not Hamlet, and Azerbaijan will never be “a hundred times” stronger than Armenia. Moreover, Azerbaijan will never be stronger than the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, as a party struggling for its Motherland always relies on the native land’s vivifying saps.
Maybe that is a reason that Azerbaijan denies negotiations with Nagorno-Karabakh, being aware that it has lost confrontation to it, and not Armenia. However, going on involving Armenia in the negotiation process, Azerbaijan is trying to lead the problem’s solution to the other sphere, where, as practice shows, nothing can be settled. Sure, Azerbaijan may not agree with the mediators’ proposals, no matter how weighted they are.
However, the fact can just strengthen the international image and authority of the NKR, which has been proving to the world its ability to protect its statehood, and not only at the battlefields, for fifteen years.
So, I. Aliyev will have to sit at the negotiating table with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President, who was been elected by the whole nation. The realities’ recognition is inevitable, even for the politicians staking on “the information and economic attack”.
