OUR RESPONSE TO AZERBAIJAN
- Armenia should submit a new Resolution
The Resolution on the “Situation in the Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan” put to vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations on March 14 and adopted by a vote of 39 in favor, 7 against and 100 abstention, is currently estimated by both neighboring countries as the defeat of the opposite side.
Azerbaijan is leans on the fact that the General Assembly has adopted a Resolution which expresses Baku’s stance but has no legal force. However, the Azerbaijani side believes that it may become a “serious warning” to Armenia as well as to the countries which are the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, i.e. the United States, Russia and France.
Armenia pays attention to the fact that the resolution received support just by some of the Islamic countries, the GUAM member states and Serbia, i.e. the Azerbaijani lobby and the countries “sharing the same fate with Azerbaijan”, so to say. Furthermore, the three pivotal states representing the interested international community within the frameworks of the Minsk Group (the USA, the European Union and Russia), voted against the Resolution.
Such attitude by the international community was not absolutely something new for Azerbaijan.
But despite that the country did its best for holding the successive “moral victory” and is now trying to materialize it. Baku has gone so far in terms of its cynicism that in response to the attitude adopted by the Minsk Group countries on March 14, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov threatened that “Azerbaijan will review and make changes in its relations with the countries which are Co-Chairs in the frameworks of the Minsk Group.”
That’s to say, either support Azerbaijan’s viewpoints or Azerbaijan itself will refuse the mediation of the Minsk Group.
These threats too, remain strangely unanswered for the time being, although it’s obvious that such primitive attempts of making pressure upon the Co-Chairs will produce no result. But the problem here does not consist in the Azerbaijan’s lack of constraint. The problem is that such lack of constraint was not prevented from the very start, i.e. during the discussion held in the UN General Assembly. The thing is that the so-called Western Block of the OSCE Minsk Group countries could have easily torpedoed the resolution since the majority of the 100 countries which abstained from voting or refused to vote were either EU member states or countries directly complying with the US policy of coercion.
Therefore, on April 14 the Western community adopted a strictly ambiguous decision, i.e. the mediators oppose the resolution in order to proceed with the talks based on the fundamental principles introduced in Madrid but at the same time, they push Azerbaijan to attack Armenia, so as it can hold a “moral victory” with the help of some Islamic countries.
This is, of course, a form of disguised pressure with the help of which the Western community is trying to check the responsive reaction of the Armenian side. The reason is obvious: the time-limits of voting for the resolution coincided with the culminating point of the Western community’s counteraction with regard to the recent internal political developments of Armenia. In such conditions it’s clear why the European countries, which do not absolutely have a pro-Azerbaijani attitude towards the Karabakh issue, adopted strictly passive attitudes.
Is it possible during the coming months to drive the Azerbaijani diplomacy into a corner with the help of responsive actions, thus preventing the further political speculations of the March 14 Resolution in the General Assembly? We believe it is necessary to wait till the coming autumn as Azerbaijan is to hold presidential elections then; thereafter, the international community will undoubtedly start the process of driving Baku into a corner, preparing a Resolution on the “Absence of an Alternative to the Peaceful Settlement of the Karabakh Conflict” and including it in the agenda of the UN General Assembly. The Resolution shall include:
a) the key points of the balanced proposals introduced in Madrid by the OSCE Co-Chairs November 29, 2007. These proposals are based on the equality of the principles of the states’ territorial integrity and the nations’ rights to self-determination.
b) the political assessment of the fact of Azerbaijan’s committing genocidal acts in response to the steps undertaken by the NKAR people based upon the USSR laws and the idea of the impermissibility of new ethnic cleansings and the military solution of the conflict after establishing the ceasefire regime.
c) Applying an international sanction against any party to the conflict and resorting to military solutions in case the given party refuses the mediation of the Minks Group. This may also include submitting the issue to the discussion of the Security Council.
After the adoption of such Resolution Armenia may announce that in case Azerbaijan refuses the peaceful settlement and resorts to new ethnic cleansings, it will unanimously recognize the NKR independence, together with its allies.
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