Azerbaijan Needs To Be Encouraged To Make Peace With Armenia
The President of Azerbaijan, Mr.
Ilham Aliyev while conducting negotiations with neighborhing Armenia more often has started using the language of threat and force.
This is never productive if Mr.
Aliyev wants to reach some tangible results.
The humanity clearly learned in the past 5 years and by looking back to the history that military force has never and will never achieve lasting peace or occupation.
The background of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is that in 1988 an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan declared itself independent according to soviet law.
Legally everything was done right, and Nogorno-Karabakh has never been part of Independent Azerbaijan.
This is very important because while Nagorno-Karabakh has been only part of Soviet Azerbaijan Republic as an authonomus region, it used the soviet law and right to cede from Azerbaijan.
This is done because of constant suppression and oppression from Azerbaijan over the Christian Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh.
It should be mentioned that this is not a religious conflict, but a political one.
Armed forces of Azerbaijan were constantly bombing Armenan cities and willages of Nagorno-Karabakh, killing the Armenian population in Sumgait and Baku and driving them out.
The Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic took arms in self-defense and eventually liberated all the nearby territories of Azerbaijan in order to secure the peaceful life of the population.
Since then the war broke out which resulted in a ceasefire of 1994, which lasts to this day.
Negotiations have been going on, while coming close to resolution they have not yet yield solid results.
The official position of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is based on three key tenets.
First, there can be no direct subordination of one party to the conflict to another - that is, no vertical relationship between Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Second, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic cannot be an enclave within Azerbaijan: the population of Karabakh must have overland access to the outside world.
Third, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic must have security guarantees at a level determined by its leadership and its people.
The fate of the territories surrounding the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic - referred to in Armenian sources as the 'security buffer' - is an object of negotiations.
While Mr.
Aliyev, (the president of Azerbaijan) has started to constantly use the language of force and military strength, we are yet to hear any such language or any non-constructive comment from Armenian leadership.
Recently Mr.
Ilham Aliyev said: "If negotiations inefficient, war will be alternative.
" Where is this leading no one knows.
Could Azerbaijan and its president win the hearts and minds of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh by such tone of language? We don't think so.
Perhaps it's better that Mr.
Aliyev starts stlowly to prepare Azerbaijan to honorable peace and reconciliation not to war.
To countries are destined to leave together as neighbors.
The sooner the leadership understands this the better.
International community has been playing a role of mediation, but it needs to do more to look at the conflict more realistically.
No established republic in history has willingly given up independence.
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has never been part of independent Republic of Azerbaijan.
Could Kosovo be part of Serbia after so much suppression? Wouldn't the people of Kosovo fight again if Serbia exercised military power? Serbia did so, but did it win the war? Therefore it's time for Azerbaijan to understand that really military force and strength is never a guarantee for winning any war even for the short time? If this was true what was preventing Azerbaijan that has a population of 8 million and a stronger economy fueled with reach oil resources to win the was in the first place over a small land-locked Armenia that has a population of only3.
5 million? It's time for the International community and Azerbaijan to understand that the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, that is established, has conducted several democratic elections, will never agree to be part of Azerbaijan.
Even with the threat of war coming from the president of Azerbaijan Mr.
Aliyev.
Peace, and fraternal coexistance is what is inevitable not the war.
Therefore, the sooner Mr.
Ilham Aliyev prepares his country for honorable peace the better for everyone in the region.
If the war is the alternative, what if Azerbaijan looses again?
Ilham Aliyev while conducting negotiations with neighborhing Armenia more often has started using the language of threat and force.
This is never productive if Mr.
Aliyev wants to reach some tangible results.
The humanity clearly learned in the past 5 years and by looking back to the history that military force has never and will never achieve lasting peace or occupation.
The background of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is that in 1988 an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan declared itself independent according to soviet law.
Legally everything was done right, and Nogorno-Karabakh has never been part of Independent Azerbaijan.
This is very important because while Nagorno-Karabakh has been only part of Soviet Azerbaijan Republic as an authonomus region, it used the soviet law and right to cede from Azerbaijan.
This is done because of constant suppression and oppression from Azerbaijan over the Christian Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh.
It should be mentioned that this is not a religious conflict, but a political one.
Armed forces of Azerbaijan were constantly bombing Armenan cities and willages of Nagorno-Karabakh, killing the Armenian population in Sumgait and Baku and driving them out.
The Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic took arms in self-defense and eventually liberated all the nearby territories of Azerbaijan in order to secure the peaceful life of the population.
Since then the war broke out which resulted in a ceasefire of 1994, which lasts to this day.
Negotiations have been going on, while coming close to resolution they have not yet yield solid results.
The official position of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is based on three key tenets.
First, there can be no direct subordination of one party to the conflict to another - that is, no vertical relationship between Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
Second, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic cannot be an enclave within Azerbaijan: the population of Karabakh must have overland access to the outside world.
Third, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic must have security guarantees at a level determined by its leadership and its people.
The fate of the territories surrounding the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic - referred to in Armenian sources as the 'security buffer' - is an object of negotiations.
While Mr.
Aliyev, (the president of Azerbaijan) has started to constantly use the language of force and military strength, we are yet to hear any such language or any non-constructive comment from Armenian leadership.
Recently Mr.
Ilham Aliyev said: "If negotiations inefficient, war will be alternative.
" Where is this leading no one knows.
Could Azerbaijan and its president win the hearts and minds of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh by such tone of language? We don't think so.
Perhaps it's better that Mr.
Aliyev starts stlowly to prepare Azerbaijan to honorable peace and reconciliation not to war.
To countries are destined to leave together as neighbors.
The sooner the leadership understands this the better.
International community has been playing a role of mediation, but it needs to do more to look at the conflict more realistically.
No established republic in history has willingly given up independence.
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has never been part of independent Republic of Azerbaijan.
Could Kosovo be part of Serbia after so much suppression? Wouldn't the people of Kosovo fight again if Serbia exercised military power? Serbia did so, but did it win the war? Therefore it's time for Azerbaijan to understand that really military force and strength is never a guarantee for winning any war even for the short time? If this was true what was preventing Azerbaijan that has a population of 8 million and a stronger economy fueled with reach oil resources to win the was in the first place over a small land-locked Armenia that has a population of only3.
5 million? It's time for the International community and Azerbaijan to understand that the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, that is established, has conducted several democratic elections, will never agree to be part of Azerbaijan.
Even with the threat of war coming from the president of Azerbaijan Mr.
Aliyev.
Peace, and fraternal coexistance is what is inevitable not the war.
Therefore, the sooner Mr.
Ilham Aliyev prepares his country for honorable peace the better for everyone in the region.
If the war is the alternative, what if Azerbaijan looses again?
