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Azerbaijan Has Recognized the Independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic (NKR) Not Only De Facto, but Also De Jure (Documents)
May 17 2013
Political scientist Gagik Hambaryan provided us with a few important
documents, according to which Azerbaijan's leadership had de jure
recognized the independence of the NKR long before. `Information,
according to which Azerbaijan recognized the independence of the NKR
in such and such year, has been circulating in both the Azeri and the
Armenian press for one year now; even archive material is being spread
on websites and social networks. `Shavarsh Kocharyan, our Deputy
Foreign Minister, giving an interview last year, put forward a
document, according to which Azerbaijan recognized the independence of
the NKR on September 3, 1993. However, I must state that both the
Armenian side and the Azeri side provide somewhat wrong information.
To begin with, we have to clarify one thing that recognition is of two
types - de jure and de facto. That the NKR has existed for 20 years
now is a fact, which nobody can deny. And that the NKR hasn't de jure
been recognized by the international community so far doesn't
correspond to reality, because at the most intense moments of the NKR
conflict when the Azeri army was suffering one defeat after another,
that same Azeri elite, that same current Minister of Defense Safar
Abiyev, that same Heydar Aliyev who is considered to be the Ataturk of
the Republic of Azerbaijan, so to speak, requested a ceasefire and
negotiations from the NKR government. I can present a document, which
has the Azeri Defense Minister's signature on it, is addressed to the
Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia, Karen Baburyan, and is
dated July 24, 1993 (see documents). `The content is as follows: if
both sides agree, military operations will be ceased for 3 days; the
treaty enters into force as of July 24, 1993, 4 p.m. They had been
negotiating before that too; the first document was on June 17. We
must state that one day before this document, the Armenians had
conquered Aghdam, a very important Azeri outpost, after 40 days of
fierce fighting. A lot of people think that the Azeri Defense Minister
unintentionally sent that letter to the Supreme Council of the
Republic of Armenia or was poorly informed. However, I think that this
was a special step, so that the Armenians were not able to prove
afterwards that the Azeri government recognized the NKR as far back as
in 1993 and negotiated with it, because Safar Abiyev and these letter
writers of his knew quite well that Karen Baburyan had nothing to do
with the Armenian Supreme Council and was the acting NKR Supreme
Council Chairman.' According to the political scientist, the
government of the Republic of Armenia replied to the Azeri side that
Karen Baburyan had nothing to do with the Supreme Council of the
Republic of Armenia, and on the following day, July 25, a letter with
the same content was sent to Samvel Babayan, the NKR Defense Minister,
on behalf of Azeri Defense Minister Sabar Abiyev. `I am asking now:
`If the Azeri Defense Minister sends a letter-request for a ceasefire,
what is it, if not a document on de jure recognition of the NKR's
independence by Azerbaijan?' This is at the level of the defense
minister,' Gagik Hambaryan says. Nune AREVSHATYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/05/17/154363/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
Republic (NKR) Not Only De Facto, but Also De Jure (Documents)
May 17 2013
Political scientist Gagik Hambaryan provided us with a few important
documents, according to which Azerbaijan's leadership had de jure
recognized the independence of the NKR long before. `Information,
according to which Azerbaijan recognized the independence of the NKR
in such and such year, has been circulating in both the Azeri and the
Armenian press for one year now; even archive material is being spread
on websites and social networks. `Shavarsh Kocharyan, our Deputy
Foreign Minister, giving an interview last year, put forward a
document, according to which Azerbaijan recognized the independence of
the NKR on September 3, 1993. However, I must state that both the
Armenian side and the Azeri side provide somewhat wrong information.
To begin with, we have to clarify one thing that recognition is of two
types - de jure and de facto. That the NKR has existed for 20 years
now is a fact, which nobody can deny. And that the NKR hasn't de jure
been recognized by the international community so far doesn't
correspond to reality, because at the most intense moments of the NKR
conflict when the Azeri army was suffering one defeat after another,
that same Azeri elite, that same current Minister of Defense Safar
Abiyev, that same Heydar Aliyev who is considered to be the Ataturk of
the Republic of Azerbaijan, so to speak, requested a ceasefire and
negotiations from the NKR government. I can present a document, which
has the Azeri Defense Minister's signature on it, is addressed to the
Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia, Karen Baburyan, and is
dated July 24, 1993 (see documents). `The content is as follows: if
both sides agree, military operations will be ceased for 3 days; the
treaty enters into force as of July 24, 1993, 4 p.m. They had been
negotiating before that too; the first document was on June 17. We
must state that one day before this document, the Armenians had
conquered Aghdam, a very important Azeri outpost, after 40 days of
fierce fighting. A lot of people think that the Azeri Defense Minister
unintentionally sent that letter to the Supreme Council of the
Republic of Armenia or was poorly informed. However, I think that this
was a special step, so that the Armenians were not able to prove
afterwards that the Azeri government recognized the NKR as far back as
in 1993 and negotiated with it, because Safar Abiyev and these letter
writers of his knew quite well that Karen Baburyan had nothing to do
with the Armenian Supreme Council and was the acting NKR Supreme
Council Chairman.' According to the political scientist, the
government of the Republic of Armenia replied to the Azeri side that
Karen Baburyan had nothing to do with the Supreme Council of the
Republic of Armenia, and on the following day, July 25, a letter with
the same content was sent to Samvel Babayan, the NKR Defense Minister,
on behalf of Azeri Defense Minister Sabar Abiyev. `I am asking now:
`If the Azeri Defense Minister sends a letter-request for a ceasefire,
what is it, if not a document on de jure recognition of the NKR's
independence by Azerbaijan?' This is at the level of the defense
minister,' Gagik Hambaryan says. Nune AREVSHATYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/05/17/154363/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia