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    Azeri letter to UN: Baku lays its fault at Armenia's door

    July 2, 2011 - 19:07 AMT


    PanARMENIAN.Net - Ambassador Agshin Mehdiyev, Permanent Representative
    of Azerbaijan to the UN, has submitted neither more nor less than a
    10-page letter to the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council.

    In his letter, Mehdiev attempted to shift Azerbaijan's fault for
    permanent ceasefire violations on Armenia and Karabakh. However,
    Mehdiyev failed to mention that it's Azeri military units that
    permanently violate ceasefire, leaving soldiers and peaceful
    inhabitants dead and injured. For example, over the last week, about
    200 instances of ceasefire violation by the Azerbaijani armed forces
    were reported, with 900 shots fired.

    Moreover, it's no secret who the Deauville statement of OSCE MG
    co-chairs on unacceptability of the use of force was addressed to,
    warning that the international community will strictly condemn any use
    of force.

    Azeri representative is also accusing Armenia of ''having the sole
    purpose of misleading the international community'' of the main issue.
    One may infer the main issue to be a Karabakh conflict settlement,
    with Azeri authorities taking every effort to prevent it, lest they
    might lose their authority. A failure of Kazan meeting was an
    illustration of Azerbaijan's stalling for time. While many structures
    and organisations predicted a conclusive document to be signed at the
    meeting, Baku advanced a dozen of new suggestions reducing urges and
    demands of superpowers to nothing.

    Another subject of complaint in Mehdiyev's letter was that of
    ''Karabakh being a historic part of Azerbaijan.'' ''From ancient times
    up to now, Karabakh was an inalienable part of Azerbaijan,'' the
    letter says, bearing no mention of the fact that after the collapse of
    the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan announced itself as a legal successor to
    Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, but not to Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist
    Republic.

    Specifically, Article 2 of Constitutional Act of Azerbaijan Republic
    on independent statehood of Azerbaijan Republic says, `Azerbaijan
    Republic is a legal successor of the Azerbaijan Republic dating back
    to the period of May 28,1918 - April 28, 1920.' Nagorno Karabakh, with
    94% of Armenian population, by the decision of the Caucasus Bureau was
    included in Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in a capacity of
    autonomy in 1921. Which means Karabakh has no bearing on modern
    Azerbaijan.

    Thus, Mehdiyev's letter to UN suggests official Baku's continued
    attempts to misinform both Azerbaijani people and the international
    community, so as to disallow a rapid settlement of Karabakh issue,
    which brings Azeri authorities some certainty of future. However it's
    harldy likely for Azerbaijan to keep misleadign the international
    community without having to bear the consequences.

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