However, this statement was unacceptable for Official Baku, who, staying true to her habit of laying the blame on others, considers that the OSCE MG Co-chairs' statement should have been addressed to Armenia, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman declared, "Turan" reports.

The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman found nothing better but to declare that Armenia has been looking forward to a military solution to the conflict. "Azerbaijani territories are occupied by the Armenian Armed Forces. So, the Co-chars should address their statement to Armenia. Armenia must be required to find a peaceful solution to the conflict and withdraw her troops from the Azeri lands," Ibrahim said.

Ibrahim's declaration might be the answer to Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian's statements issued in Europe and Yerevan, in which he said that with her militarist statements Azerbaijan jeopardized the future of negotiation process. In a wider sense, RA Foreign Minister said nothing new - the Co-chairs, as well as the whole international community know it quite well. Only, Baku has obviously gone too far lately, either hoping for alternative ways of delivering gas to Europe or relying on Turkey, or any other country, in «resoluteness» to settle the Karabakh conflict in a military way. Everything is possible - no one knows how far Baku can go with this rhetoric and with the tactless remarks by Khazar Ibrahim concerning Armenian figures of different ranks.

Most likely, Baku has decided to in some way «mark» the 21st anniversary of the Karabakh movement. Is it unintentionally that the Co-chairs' statement was made on the eve of February 20? They say there is nothing accidental in politics and such kind of statements are called to warn the chief players against «going to extremes».

But it is also a fact that only a little time is left before the referendum on amendments to the Azerbaijani Constitution, or, to be more exact, before recognizing Aliyev a president for life. That is why the Azerbaijani President must do his best to assure his people he is the only president powerful enough to return the lands lost under his father.

Meanwhile, according to Russian expert Alexei Vlasov, it is absolutely obvious that the more complex and contradicting the Nagorno-Karabakh issue is from the point of view of foreign arbiters, the simpler and clearer it is from the point of view of those living in Azerbaijan and Armenia. "This difference in approaches makes the Karabakh issue highly explosive, even at a most remote approximation to its discussion or on the level of expert meetings. The standards of international law have long lost their magnetism as a model for a just resolution of such conflicts," Vlasov says and he is somewhat right if we take into consideration the examples of Kosovo, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and still earlier those of East Timor and Eritrea.

So, the mantle of «international law standards» should be changed and the outdated principles of the 80's avoided, and Baku can hardly fail to understand that…