AMERICAN MEDIATOR ASSUMES INDEPENDENT STATUS OF KARABAKH

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AMERICAN MEDIATOR ASSUMES INDEPENDENT STATUS OF Artsax

 

Heydar Aliyev pretends he does not see anything dangerous in the statement of Rudolf Perina.

 

The recent sensational statement of the OSCE Minsk group American co-chairman caused a shock in Azerbaijan. There is a panic in the President’s staff, judging from the statements of the officials surrounding Heydar Aliyev. The statement of Rudolf Perina, which had the effect of a cold shower, made the Baku politicians understand that at present the world community was not ready to recognize the sovereignty of Azerbaijan over Artsax.

 

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Being the first time, a high rank official of the U.S. Foreign Ministry (Perina is the special representative of the U.S. Department of State for the local conflicts in Eurasia) pronounced so clearly words confirming the preparedness of Washington to consider Nagorno Krabakh as an independent state or part of Armenia. We’ll remind that in an interview with a commentator of the “Echo of Moscow” Russian radio station held on December 11 Rudolf Perina said the following: “The world community is not ready to recognize neither Southern Osetia, nor Abkhazia or the Prednestrovya as independent states. The case of Nagorno Artsax is a little bit different”. “We think that Prednestrovya or Abkhazia will not be recognized by the world community. As far as Nagorno Artsax is concerned, there is a negotiation process going on between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We, the mediators, are trying to help the sides in finding a settlement”.

 

The abovementioned quotation is rather clear. It was not easy for the official propaganda of Azerbaijan to find ways for saving their dignity. The official media reacted as usually – they started to modify the words of Perina. Being conducted by the head of foreign relations department of the President’s staff Novruz Mamedov, everybody started to find favorable interpretations for the words of Rudolf Perina, which were the following: “Between Armenia and Azerbaijan there are negotiations about the future status of Artsax. Up to now there is no conclusion of those negotiations, the world community backs the idea of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and does not recognize Nagorno Artsax”. A method was found which allowed to gain a maximum effect with minimum falsifications. The second part of the quotation was divided into two sentences: As a result, it was the following: “Yet there is no conclusion of those negotiations. The international community backs the idea of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and does not recognize Nagorno Karbakh”. Please note that the fool stop put in the middle of the phrase, provides an absolutely contrary meaning. In real, the logic of the words said by Perina is that America now does not think it expedient to recognize the state independence of Nagorno Artsax, as the negotiations around its status are not concluded yet. While the modified version supposes that Washington backs the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. This was published particularly in the “Echo” newspaper.

 

Making the statement of Rudolf Perina softer, the commentator of the “Echo” accepts that the position of the diplomat voicing the official position of the USA is not very beneficial for Azerbaijan. The conclusion, which the author of the publication makes, is that it is necessary to declare a war to the Armenians. “There is only one way remained – the military way of the settlement of the problem, as the OSCE Minsk group conducting a pro-Armenian policy, will hardly oblige Armenia to make compromises with the Azerbaijani side,” the newspaper writes. And this is the best confirmation that in Baku they have started to understand that the attempts to return Artsax have no future. The political elite of Azerbaijan already understands that the settlement of the problem in the legal field will lead to the recognition of independence of the NKR by the world community.

 

- "PanARMENIAN News" analytical department

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Of course/bravo!

 

NK has never been part of the Republic of Azerbaijan. It became an independent state by popular referendum as was allowed under the then existing Soviet constitution. Furthermore - territorial gains made by Armenia against Azerbaijan - well - they are just as (or even more - as it was in defense) legitimate (to hold) as that of Turkey taking Van/Erezun provinces in the 1920s. So - in my mind the negotioations for giving 9a portion) of this teritory back are not dependent whatsoever on NK - but on other concensiions from the Azeris. Of course all is negotiable for peace - its just I think that the world must understand the situation there - the Azeris lost a war (in which they were the agressors) - and cannot just expect to have any lands returned out of hand. Likewise - they have no real legitimate claim angainst NK whatsoever..