PEOPLE OF NAGORNO KARABAKH ELECT NKR AND NOT RA PRESIDENT
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry started its recurrent disinformation campaign - maybe they are getting a preparatory training on our presidential elections before Azerbaijani presidential elections.
Anyway, Azerbaijani political thinking is facing a crisis, confidently, as they have no conception of some simple questions. Mainly, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Press Service Department Chief Khazar Ibrahim announced that the process of presidential elections in Azerbaijan and Armenia "...brought to various violations of Azerbaijani legislation and International Law connected with Nagorno Karabakh".
According to Ibrahim, it becomes clear that "...the Azerbaijani citizens of the occupied territories of Armenia cannot participate in Azerbaijani presidential elections".
Another violation of law, according to Ibrahim, is "...the participation of Nagorno Karabakh people in RA presidential elections".
"Electoral districts are being formed in Nagorno Karabakh connected with RA presidential elections. We don't have its supervision mechanisms", probably the wail was directed to international society.
First of all, we would like to underline that only RA citizens can participate in RA presidential elections and Azerbaijani citizens, even in case of strong desire and with the help of international society's "persuasions", cannot take part in Armenian election processes. At the same time, they cannot participate in NKR elections, as only Nagorno Karabakh citizens have right to participate in them.
Azerbaijanis cannot understand an elementary thing - Karabakh has no connection with the Republic of Azerbaijan. Moreover, many of Karabakh people have gained RA citizenship, and some of them even US citizenship and the Azerbaijani approach is ridiculous, for example the hopes to make US citizens participate in Ilham Aliev's re-election process.
Besides, the same Ibrahim should think that if he really considers NKR citizens as Azerbaijani, he will be concerned of the fact that every election can be considered as illegal because of non-participation of the half of the population.
We would like to quote several articles from Azerbaijani constitution about citizenship. According to Azerbaijani constitution the documents that confirm citizenship are birth certificate and Azerbaijani passport. And as Karabakh people don't have even one of the mentioned, the talks about as if Karabakh people are Azerbaijani citizens are worthless.
Moreover, Azerbaijani constitution article 52 defines who is Azerbaijani citizen. And Nagorno Karabakh people cannot be placed in that definition.
What about Armenian presidential elections and so-called participation of Nagorno Karabakh people in it, we want to recall that NKR has its own election processes, and elections are held there independent of Armenian and Azerbaijani elections. And though Azerbaijan doesn't recognize those elections, they are de facto processes that regulate Nagorno Karabakh's life and development.
Participation of RA citizens (of Karabakh origin) in Armenian presidential elections corresponds to International Law principles and normatives. And all of them who have RA citizenship and election franchise are part of that process even if Azerbaijan is against it.
- By Aghavni Harutyunian, translated by L.H.
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