International community witnesses Azerbaijan's undisguised preparation for war

PanARMENIAN.Net - Democratic resolution of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict is a priority for the South Caucasus and Armenia's security, director of the institute of national and strategic studies at the RA defense ministry, adviser to the defense minister, political scientist, senior expert of ethnic and national security political sciences, major general Hayk Kotanjian said in an interview posted at the defense ministry's web site.



"When analyzing the position of Azeri authorities and Azeri president first of all, international assessments of the democracy degree in the country should be taken into account. Freedom House gave an exhaustive estimation to Aliyev's regime. According to the annual country report, Azerbaijan is an "unfree" state," he said.



"Certainly, the things are not brilliant with Armenia and Georgia. However, Freedom House rates these countries as "partly free". Our western counterparts the position of the Azeri leader is undemocratic in the core. This is first of all the dynastic inheritance and despotic power as well as Aliyev junior's totalitarian imposing of his father's cult on the Azeri people.



In case with the Karabakh settlement the Azeri president's stance demonstrates the colonizer's attitude towards human rights and freedoms of the native population, people of Nagorno Karabakh and ethnic minorities. Baku's refusal to pass a law "On national minorities" as a commitment to the Council of Europe," he said.



When asked how the Azerbaijani president manifests his undemocratic attitude towards the Karabakh people, Dr Kotanjian said, "First, it's the denial of the legal democratic end of administrative-hierarchic relations between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan as parts of the declined USSR. The matter concerns the denial of the political and juridical fact of Nagorno Karabakh's right to self-determination exercised through the referendum in 1991. The law "On the order of settlement of issues referring to secession from a soviet republic" operated during the period preceding the Alma-Ata declaration on cease of activities of the state structures of the former USSR. Second, it's the refusal to recognize the fact of aggression of the Azerbaijani Republic against Nagorno Karabakh in 1991, Third, it's the violation of the UN fundamental principles: interdependency of peace, progress and democracy in relations with other nations. Ignoring these principles, Aliyev launched armament race. Furthermore, he constantly calls on the public for return of Karabakh by use of force. The international community witnesses undisguised political, military and psychological preparation of Azerbaijan for war against Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. Fourth, it's the blocking and distortion of true information accompanied by falsification of history of Armenians and other peoples of the Eastern South Transcaucasia in order to substantiate Aliyev's territorial claims of Artsakh and justify the repetition of aggression against Karabakh's Armenianhood."