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    WHY DOES AZERBAIJAN SPECULATE ON SARSANG RESERVOIR?

    Wednesday,
    July 03

    At various meetings held recently, Azerbaijan has tried to present
    the safety of Sarsang reservoir in the north of Artsakh as an urgent
    issue, calling the reservoir a potential danger to six Azerbaijani
    regions. During the latest sitting of the Euronest Parliamentary
    Assembly, the Azerbaijani delegation tried to include a resolution
    on the indicated issue in the agenda and held a vote on it, but the
    attempt failed thanks to efforts of Armenian delegates. What is the
    reason for such activity?

    First, following the 2011 meeting in Kazan when Azerbaijan made ten new
    proposals and torpedoed the adoption of a document on the fundamental
    principles, that country was pressured by the international community
    and the destructive position showed up.

    In order to back out of the situation, Azerbaijan tried to imitate
    an initiative side by making various proposals. In particular, after
    the Kazan meeting Azerbaijan launched an initiative for evading the
    drafting a document on the fundamental principles and the start of
    drafting a Great Peace Agreement. Then the head of the Oil Company of
    Azerbaijan began talking about the export of natural gas to Armenia
    and later the Azerbaijani side began actively speaking about the
    safety of the Sarsang reservoir.

    Secondly, if the resolution presented at the sitting of Euronest
    were of humanitarian nature and if Azerbaijan wanted to cooperate
    with Nagorno Karabakh on these issues, it would not accentuate
    such expressions in the resolution as "occupied territories" and
    "withdrawal of Armenian troops".

    An attempt to profit from the word "humanitarian" is obvious in
    the abovementioned resolution. Years ago the Karabakh side proposed
    cooperating on joint use of water resources, which envisaged that
    Artsakh would provide water from the Sarsang reservoir for Azerbaijani
    regions adjacent to the northeast of Artsakh, while Azerbaijan was
    to open the beds of the rivers which flowed to Karabakh in the past,
    but in the 1990s Azerbaijan changed the riverbeds in order to deprive
    Armenian villages of irrigation water.

    In the same resolution, Azerbaijan tries to show that it is concerned
    about the security of residents of Azerbaijani villages adjacent to
    Artsakh. But if we take into account the fact that residents of that
    area have been deprived of irrigation water for two decades, while
    Azerbaijan rejected Artsakh's proposal on cooperation and provision
    of irrigation water to those regions, everything becomes clear.

    Thirdly, by raising issues not related to the negotiating process and
    presenting them as important issues, Azerbaijan is trying to stray from
    the essence of the process. So an impression is created that Azerbaijan
    tries to find solutions and do its best for the problem's resolution,
    but in reality it appears that Azerbaijan, while ignoring the priority
    issues, raises issues which have nothing to do with the negotiating
    process. It means that because of active efforts of Azerbaijan,
    the sides are moving away from the opportunity to reach an agreement.

    TODAY, 14:42

    Aysor.am

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