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HAYK KOTANJYAN: ALIYEV'S MILITARY PROVOCATION SYNCHRONIZED WITH MEDVEDEV'S PEACEFUL INITIATIVE
ArmInfo
2010-06-21 13:43:00
ArmInfo. "The regular armed provocation by Azerbaijan against
Nagorno Karabakh Republic has been synchronized not only with
President Medvedev's Petersburg peaceful initiative but also with
US President Barack Obama's message having been recently delivered
to Baku by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, which also emphasized
the imperativeness of peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict", Head of the National Strategic Research Institute of
Armenia's Defense Ministry, advisor to the Defense Minister on military
policy and security, Doctor of Political Science, Major-General Hayk
Kotanjyan said when commenting on the incident happened on June 18
on the Azerbaijani and NKR AF contact line.
"President Aliyev has hastily left Saint Petersburg after the meeting
with Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Serzh Sargsyan, held on the Russian
president's initiative, as to avoid answering the questions about
the military provocation unleashed by his order on the contact line
several hours later after the trilateral presidential meeting. The
current sultanate-type regime in Azerbaijan rules out unauthorization
of such a military provocation, especially that timed to the target
peaceful initiative of Russia's president". Kotanjyan said.
According to him, it is not the first time the president of
Azerbaijan shows such a negligence to the Russian president's peaceful
initiatives. Almost a year ago, the public's attention was drawn to the
Azerbaijani president's statement in Chatham House about the readiness
to start a war for return of Karabakh, which conflicted with the
Maindorf Declaration initiated by President Medvedev and signed shortly
before that. As for the prospect of growth of I. Aliyev's bellicose
statements into a new war, the General thinks that one should not
rule out growth of Aliyev's revanchist calls and armed provocations,
being planned under his guidance, into a new war in Karabakh taking
into account the absence of any serious counteraction by the world
community to the demonstrative arms race being imposed by Azerbaijan.
"Catastrophic impact of such a policy on the regional stability and
security is obvious - on the example of the well-known tragic events
in Georgia", Kotanjyan said.
"The Armenian party highly appreciates the purposeful efforts by
presidents of Russia, USA and France on peaceful settlement of the
Karabakh conflict, however, it has all the grounds to warn President
Aliyev that launch of a new war in Karabakh will make the Armenian
party, in accordance with McNamara principle, to inflict cause an
acceptable damage to Azerbaijan", the General said. When asked what
may be the possible basis of productive application of the trinity of
principles "non-use of force, free self-determination and territorial
integrity" for solution of the Karabakh problem, Kotanjyan replied that
recognition of the fact of the NKR withdrawal from the Azerbaijani
SSR by Azerbaijan according to the Law of the USSR "On the order of
solution of issues related to withdrawal of a union republic from
the USSR" may be such a basis.
"This legal and political fact should become the basis of Armenia's
foreign policy. The matter concerns acceptance by OSCE MG co-chairing
states, as a basis of their mediation activity, of the fact of
illegality of use of the principle of territorial integrity with the
respect to the Azerbaijani Republic with consideration of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic in the latter's structure", Kotanjyan resumed.
From: A. Papazian
ArmInfo
2010-06-21 13:43:00
ArmInfo. "The regular armed provocation by Azerbaijan against
Nagorno Karabakh Republic has been synchronized not only with
President Medvedev's Petersburg peaceful initiative but also with
US President Barack Obama's message having been recently delivered
to Baku by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, which also emphasized
the imperativeness of peaceful settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
conflict", Head of the National Strategic Research Institute of
Armenia's Defense Ministry, advisor to the Defense Minister on military
policy and security, Doctor of Political Science, Major-General Hayk
Kotanjyan said when commenting on the incident happened on June 18
on the Azerbaijani and NKR AF contact line.
"President Aliyev has hastily left Saint Petersburg after the meeting
with Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Serzh Sargsyan, held on the Russian
president's initiative, as to avoid answering the questions about
the military provocation unleashed by his order on the contact line
several hours later after the trilateral presidential meeting. The
current sultanate-type regime in Azerbaijan rules out unauthorization
of such a military provocation, especially that timed to the target
peaceful initiative of Russia's president". Kotanjyan said.
According to him, it is not the first time the president of
Azerbaijan shows such a negligence to the Russian president's peaceful
initiatives. Almost a year ago, the public's attention was drawn to the
Azerbaijani president's statement in Chatham House about the readiness
to start a war for return of Karabakh, which conflicted with the
Maindorf Declaration initiated by President Medvedev and signed shortly
before that. As for the prospect of growth of I. Aliyev's bellicose
statements into a new war, the General thinks that one should not
rule out growth of Aliyev's revanchist calls and armed provocations,
being planned under his guidance, into a new war in Karabakh taking
into account the absence of any serious counteraction by the world
community to the demonstrative arms race being imposed by Azerbaijan.
"Catastrophic impact of such a policy on the regional stability and
security is obvious - on the example of the well-known tragic events
in Georgia", Kotanjyan said.
"The Armenian party highly appreciates the purposeful efforts by
presidents of Russia, USA and France on peaceful settlement of the
Karabakh conflict, however, it has all the grounds to warn President
Aliyev that launch of a new war in Karabakh will make the Armenian
party, in accordance with McNamara principle, to inflict cause an
acceptable damage to Azerbaijan", the General said. When asked what
may be the possible basis of productive application of the trinity of
principles "non-use of force, free self-determination and territorial
integrity" for solution of the Karabakh problem, Kotanjyan replied that
recognition of the fact of the NKR withdrawal from the Azerbaijani
SSR by Azerbaijan according to the Law of the USSR "On the order of
solution of issues related to withdrawal of a union republic from
the USSR" may be such a basis.
"This legal and political fact should become the basis of Armenia's
foreign policy. The matter concerns acceptance by OSCE MG co-chairing
states, as a basis of their mediation activity, of the fact of
illegality of use of the principle of territorial integrity with the
respect to the Azerbaijani Republic with consideration of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic in the latter's structure", Kotanjyan resumed.
From: A. Papazian