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    ACNIS criticizes Azerbaijani president's renewed threats of war
    02.01.2010 11:53 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian Center for National and International
    Studies (ACNIS) Director Richard Giragosian issued a statement today
    criticizing Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's renewed `threats of
    war.' In most countries, leaders usually address their people with a
    traditional New Year's message that seeks to convey a message of
    cooperation, peace and prosperity. But in the case of Azerbaijan, this
    New Year's message for 2010 was one of war. Sadly, the militant
    threats and aggressive rhetoric emanating from Baku was a disturbing
    message for Yerevan. But it was also a warning to the international
    community that peace and security in the South Caucasus will not be a
    certainty for 2010.

    In the words of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, his New Year's
    message for the coming year was a stark warning that `Azerbaijan is
    strengthening its military potential,' which he vowed was `increasing
    day by day' and was `being strengthened in terms of weapons and
    equipment.' Further explaining the deeper meaning behind such
    threatening language, the Azerbaijani leader warned that Baku has the
    `military effectiveness' and will `use all our means to solve the
    Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabagh conflict.'

    Such militant words of war are still empty threats, however, as the
    exaggerated boasts of Azerbaijan's military strength remain remote
    from the reality of the poor state of readiness and inferior
    capability of the Azerbaijani armed forces. But the bellicose warnings
    and threats by the Azerbaijani leadership only threaten regional
    security and stability, an even more disturbing fact in the wake of
    the war in Georgia in August 2008. Clearly, Azerbaijan has failed to
    learn the primary lesson from the Georgia war - that there is no
    military solution to essentially political problems. And for Nagorno
    Karabagh, Azerbaijan's bluff and bluster only reaffirms the
    impossibility of any return to Azerbaijani control.
    Ironically, such threats from Azerbaijan only reveal their lack of
    sincerity and questionable commitment to international mediation
    efforts seeking a negotiated resolution of the Nagorno Karabagh
    conflict. Such rhetoric also demonstrates the dubious and futile
    nature of Turkey's demands for concessions from Armenia over Karabagh.

    Thus, with the start of a new year, the South Caucasus deserves real
    diplomacy rather than a reliance on a war of words in which Azerbaijan
    only recycles the same threats of war over Karabagh. Sadly, for the
    people of the South Caucasus, 2010 promises to be yet another year of
    challenges and threats to lasting stability and security in the
    region.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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