Azerbaijan is not ready for dialogue based on international right

PanARMENIAN.Net - Expert Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan said that the bloody incident near Getavan village has several peculiarities, based on which conclusions should be made. The Azerbaijani reconnaissance-subversive group crossed the NKR border in several hours after a meeting of the Russian, Armenian and Azerbaijani Presidents, while Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was not happy with the meeting's results, Melik-Shahnazaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

"In his aspiration to occupy the NKR territory, the Azerbaijani President expected Russia's assistance. Since he has not achieved it, Aliyev left the Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, while it was the official reason for his visit to Russia. Thus, one can state that the night sally of Azerbaijani soldiers is a sort of bloody blackmail addressed to Russia and other states co-chairing the OSCE Minsk Group," stressed Melik-Shahnazaryan.

Besides, he noted that this is the first time since May 1994 that Baku does not reject the fact of an armed clash. "Moreover, Azerbaijan has factually admitted the premeditation of the bloody action, attributing it to the "right to restoration of territorial integrity" of the Soviet Azerbaijan."

According to the political analyst, the spokesman of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said that "similar clashes indicate that Azerbaijan will never accept "the occupation of its territories", and "such cases show that the Azerbaijani-Armenian, Karabakh conflict is not frozen."

The Armenian expert believes that Azerbaijan is not ready for a dialogue based on the international right and is going to achieve NKR's occupation through blackmailing the world community, which is interested in preserving peace and stability in the South Caucasus.

"It means that the sally of Azerbaijani soldiers is a sort of message to the world geopolitical centers - if they don't solve the Karabakh problem in favor of Azerbaijan, it will launch a war, which will affect these centers' political and economic plans and opportunities. Thus, the incident suggests two ways.

First, the Armenian states should launch more active work to transfer the Karabakh conflict settlement from the political into legal field. Besides, Armenian diplomats should stir up their efforts in important international institutions. Second, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry's statement should be estimated correctly, it gives a green light to Armenian soldiers and we should use this opportunity.

From now on, soldiers of the NKR Defense Army have both moral and legal right to shoot at anything that is moving near the NKR state border. The only way to restrain Ilham Aliyev's ardor is to make him provide explanations on a daily basis to Azerbaijani parents with respect to reasons of their kids' death for the sake of political and territorial ambitions of the Azerbaijani President," concluded Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan.