In Azerbaijan there are people who realize that the war for someone else's territory is committed to defeat

PanARMENIAN.Net - In Baku immediately after the meeting the Karabakh Forum with participation of deputies and political parties was held. It launched with a scandal. On the list of the announced organizers there was the name of the political scientist Ilgar Mamedov, who, according to the articles, is against the radical means put forward by Akif Naðý. Day. az has published the announcement made by Mamedov, where he emphasizes; "The information about my participation in organizing the Karabakh Forum is a complete lie. I encourage practically all the initiatives of the public discussion of the Karabakh Conflict and I always take very active part in their works. However, I never agreed to become one of the organizers of the mentioned Forum. That is why I am surprised and disappointed that the Karabakh Liberation Organization has mentioned my name among the initiators of this event, while I had agreed to participate in the discussions only."

But the matter is not in Ilgar Mamedov only, but that Baku seems to have started to realize that sooner or later it will have to reach the agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh status and only then solve the other problems, such as territorial problems, the problem of refugees, borders and so on.

"Karabakh Liberation Organization thinks that Azerbaijan should cancel the idea of holding the referendum on determining the further status of Nagorno-Karabakh," announced Akif Naði. The president of the party of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan Ali Kerimli said in his speech that "The international organizations strive to once and for all tear away Nagorno Karabakh from Azerbaijan." According to him, in case Kosovo gains its independence, Azerbaijan will have a rather serious danger to face. Kerimli also said that it was very unreasonable to hold the referendum on the status of Nagorno Karabakh in Azerbaijan. The President of the oppositional National Democratic Party Bozgurd Iskender Hamidov came forward with the idea of discontinuing the OSCE Minsk Group's activity, as well as demanded to reject the implementation of the policy of "National Diplomacy".

All the participants of the Forum are active supporters of the conflict resolution by use of force, who for some unknown reasons forget that as Agber Hasanov writes, "If on the streets of Baku there is no one ready "to liberate" Nagorno-Karabakh, in our opinion it means that this land didn't and doesn't belong to Azerbaijan". Moreover, Baku will hardly dare to unleash any war, in spite of all the preparations being held within and beyond of the borders of the country. "The image of the enemy" is once and for all formed and if it goes on like this, perhaps the inner instability will lead to civil strife like it had happened before Heydar Aliyev. Then the President Aliyev will hardly be concerned about Karabakh, as he will have to save his position by all means, even by war. The hope will fall upon oil and gas supplies, yet, as it has already been mentioned, war cannot be won by the help of growing military budget only. Elmar Huseynov is one of the few journalists in Azerbaijan, who paid with his life for his views, wrote in 1997 "We lost the war, because we didn't fight for our land. Our refugees do not want to return, as it is not their land…" These lines were published in the newspaper "Monitor", which was shut down by Heydar Aliyev. This was and still remains the only truth.