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  • BAKU: Researcher Calls On Azeri Leaders To Be Ready For War

    RESEARCHER CALLS ON AZERI LEADERS TO BE READY FOR WAR

    AssA-Irada
    August 4, 2009 Tuesday
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijani leaders should be ready for a sudden eruption of war
    with Armenia, a Norway-based analyst has said. Yadigar Zakariyya,
    the head of North-South Azerbaijan Political Research Center,
    said that his organization has developed several proposals, based
    on numerous countries experience with conflicts, to facilitate a
    settlement to the Upper (Nagorno) Garabagh conflict. Speaking at a
    scientific conference in Baku on the role of political parties and
    non-governmental organizations in the Garabagh settlement, Zakariyya
    said that, first, self-defense units should be set up in all districts,
    villages and settlements of Azerbaijan.

    These units should undergo military training and taught rules
    of handling weapons, and be trained on how to act in the combat
    zone. Reserve detachments should report to the nearby military unit. If
    war begins, the military unit will be aware that reinforcement forces
    are available nearby and will be able to get them immediately engaged
    in warfare. Sabir Rustamkhanly, the chairman of opposition-leaning
    Civil Solidarity Party, claimed that propaganda being pursued in
    Azerbaijan is causing considerable divergence in the positions of
    local parties and NGOs on the Garabagh problem. As a result, the
    OSCE Minsk Group brokering settlement to the conflict is dictating
    anything it wants to. There are even differences of opinion among NGOs
    pertaining to the proposals on the conflict resolution. Parliament
    member Nasib Nasibli pointed out that, to launch a war, the Garabagh
    issue should be conceived by Azerbaijanis as a problem of nationwide
    scale. For four years running, this issue has not been discussed in
    the Milli Majlis (parliament), the lawmaker noted. Another MP, Gudrat
    Hasanguliyev, blamed international organizations for failing to put
    pressure on Armenia, which has been occupying a part of Azerbaijans
    territory since the early 1990s. They are even indirectly supporting
    Armenia. But [peace] talks cannot go on indefinitely, Hasanguliyev
    said. The lawmaker stressed that the Azerbaijani public should protest
    at the stalling conflict and push for moving the process forward. He
    also suggested using force to resolve the long-standing dispute. In
    the absence of this [pressure], they [international organizations]
    are seeking for Azerbaijan to accept concessions. There is no fair
    solution to the Upper Garabagh conflict through negotiations. We have
    to wage successful military operations, otherwise, we will not be able
    to restore our sovereignty rights in Upper Garabagh. And, to free our
    land, a powerful army needs to be built. Sardar Jalaloglu, the leader
    of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP), maintained that the goal of
    the mediators brokering the peace process is to pursue their own goals
    while keeping the conflict settlement process under control. There is
    no political solution to this problem, Jalaloglu opined. We have to
    achieve taking it to the legal realm. The conflict must be settled
    in accord with international law. Azerbaijan cannot wage a war now,
    as the political will needed for this is not there. Azerbaijan
    and Armenia fought a lengthy war that ended with the signing of a
    cease-fire in 1994, but Armenia continues to occupy Upper Garabagh
    and seven adjacent Azerbaijani districts in defiance of international
    law. Despite numerous rounds of OSCE-brokered negotiations, peace
    talks have been without results so far and refugees remain stranded.
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