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    It is now legal in Azerbaijan to shoot down civilian aircraft

    http://www.ibtimes.com/press-release/20130125/it-now-legal-azerbaijan-shoot-down-civilian-aircraft-1039922


    LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The following article is
    being released by the Public Relations Department, Consulate General
    of the Republic of Armenia in Los Angeles:

    The Government of Azerbaijan has recently voted to allow its air force
    to shoot down civilian aircraft overflying the Republic of Artsakh.
    This decision came in the wake of the announced resumption of flights
    from and to Stepanakert, the capital of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh in
    Russian).

    The threat to destroy civilian aircraft with passengers aboard is a
    complete aberration by standards of any civilized and respected member
    of international community. However, given Azerbaijan's track record
    of respect for international law and human rights, it is quite
    conceivable that the decision of the government of Azerbaijan is not
    entirely declarative in its nature.

    During the last days of the Soviet empire, Azerbaijani authorities
    orchestrated kristallnacht-styled pogroms on its citizens of Armenian
    origin - a crime that forever stained the face of Baku, Azerbaijan's
    capital and a crime yet to be repented by its perpetrators. The Azeri
    government then sent warplanes to drop cluster bombs on apartment
    buildings, hospitals and schools of unarmed people in Stepanakert, who
    in exercise of their constitutional right, voted for
    self-determination and freedom. Repelled in a humiliating defeat,
    Azerbaijan imposed a tight blockade on 150,000-strong population of
    Artsakh, with the hope to starve them and force to capitulate -- all
    in vain as we know.

    And then comes the act of utmost barbary: intoxicated by hate speech
    towards anything Armenian, an Azeri officer beheads his sleeping
    fellow Armenian classmate - both attending a NATO seminar in Budapest.
    Abominable in its design and execution, this crime was subsequently
    glorified by the government of Azerbaijan and the axe murderer was
    honored and promoted in rank, thus leaving Artsakh and its people with
    no illusions as to the ability of the modern day Azerbaijan to
    maintain civilized neighborly relations or relations with anyone of
    Armenian descent.

    21 years into a successful nation-building existence, the Republic of
    Artsakh is taking measures to re-launch air communication with Armenia
    only to face more hostility and outright blackmail from Azerbaijan.
    Air traffic is not an end in itself for Artsakh, although it is very
    natural for all people, no matter if their country is recognized or
    not, to fulfill their fundamental right for free movement. With the
    resumption of civilian air traffic with Armenia, Artsakh intends to
    improve the country's accessibility to the outside world with all the
    economic and humanitarian ramifications this move entails. Neither
    Armenia nor Artsakh consider the re-opening of the Stepanakert airport
    as an escalatory move intended to damage the negotiation process that
    Azerbaijan has been consistently trying to derail. Similar to this is
    the reaction of international mediators who warn Azerbaijan against
    the use of force and call for a refrain in politicizing the matter.

    Azerbaijan's aggressive reactions repeat a familiar pattern, a deja
    vu, by futilely attempting to prevent the people of Artsakh from
    strengthening their statehood and democratic traditions. Speaking of
    democratic traditions, on the other side of the world, before the
    California State Senate, the Consul General of Azerbaijan just
    recently referred to his country as a democracy. This came in the wake
    of the latest report by Freedom House that rated Azerbaijan as "Not
    Free," while classifying the Republic of Artsakh as "Partly Free,"
    i.e. among the nations with nascent democratic traditions such as
    genuinely competitive elections and participation. This "glitch" is
    not the only one. In yet another astonishing revelation, the Azeri
    diplomats claimed that Azerbaijan- a predominantly Shiite Muslim
    country - was one of the first Christian nations!

    Having declared the worldwide Armenians Azerbaijan's worst enemy,
    Azerbaijan has in recent months imported its deceptive propaganda and
    bellicose rhetoric to the US West Coast - home to one of the largest
    Armenian Diasporas in the world. Thus far, this new effort by the
    Azeri propaganda has only resulted in a number of embarrassing
    situations and heavy blows to the country's own standing, in addition
    to strengthening the already overwhelming support of the global
    Armenian community to the Republic of Artsakh.



    Original Source:
    http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/it-is-now-legal-in-azerbaijan-to-shoot-down-civilian-aircraft-188392521.html

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