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    WHICH AZERBAIJAN JOINED UN?
    By Lusine Avanesyan

    Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
    Aug 31 2009
    Armenia

    "We have always stated that Nagorno-Karabakh must have a status,
    but we do not see this status apart from Azerbaijan's territorial
    integrity," Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated yesterday.

    In the negotiations for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    conflict our neighbors' trump card is the fact that Azerbaijan became
    a UN member with Nagorno-Karabakh as part of it. All the states,
    including the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, recognized Azerbaijan's
    territorial integrity. Nonetheless, a Declaration adopted by Azerbaijan
    (a UN-member) on August 30, 1991, states that the Democratic Republic
    of Azerbaijan of 1918-1920 was re-established in Azerbaijan. Thus,
    the new independent state declared itself a legal successor to Musavat
    Azerbaijan of 1918-1920. Speaking of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity
    now, our neighbors forget all about that fundamental document.

    Knowing the "blind spots" of history, however, helps reveal the
    implications of this seeming forgetfulness. How can they in Azerbaijan
    remember that modern-day Azerbaijan is successor to a state that
    had no definite borders, without Nagorno-Karabakh, Nakhichevan and
    Zangezur being part of it? In the last case, our neighbor is still
    laying claims.

    According to the international norms in effect at that time, those
    were disputable territories. Evidence thereof is the proceedings of
    the Paris Assembly of the League of Nations, when the newly formed
    Transcaucasian republics were admitted to the League of Nations.

    Also, both the agreements signed during the first years of the Soviet
    state and Bolsheviks' statements prove that. According to historical
    documents, Azerbaijan's claims to the neighboring territories once
    proved to be an obstacle to its admission to the League of Nations. In
    December 1920, the organ of the League of Nations that considered
    the issue of Azerbaijan's admission, unanimously voted against, as
    Azerbaijan's border disputes with Georgia and Armenia did not allow the
    organization to be properly informed of whether Azerbaijan's borders
    had been finally fixed or not. So when Azerbaijani officials state
    that Azerbaijan joined the UN with Nagorno-Karabakh being part of it,
    they should specify which Azerbaijan they mean: if it is the successor
    to the Musavat Azerbaijan of 1918-1920, Nagorno-Karabakh was not part
    of it then. Therefore, the state of Azerbaijan that was admitted to the
    UN in 1991 was to be admitted without Nagorno-Karabakh as part of it.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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