Interview with MP Adil Aliyev, re-elected to parliament as an independent candidate.
Q: What do you think is the outcome of the OSCE summit in Astana for Azerbaijan?
A: Of course, we first consider a summit in terms of the resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Unfortunately, the predictions that the OSCE summit in Astana would not promote real resolution of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia turned out to be right. As a result of this conflict, 20% of our land has been occupied for 10 years already while over a million Azerbaijanis have no chance of returning to the historical lands of their ancestors. All that was agreed in Astana was the joint statement of the conflict parties and the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, which means nothing. It is possible to say that that the OSCE summit in Astana not only failed to bring the establishment of peace and stability in the South Caucasus any closer, but also raised tensions. Armenia is a catalyst of these tensions since it does not fulfill the resolutions of the UN Security Council or those adopted in the Council of Europe and European Parliament. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was right when he said in his speech to the OSCE summit that Armenia's behaviour in the negotiating process gives us grounds to think that Armenia does not want peace, does not want to liberate the occupied lands and is striving to preserve the status quo as long as it can and to drag out the negotiating process ad infinitum.
Q: Will Armenia be able to attain their goal?
A: I do not rule out that Yerevan, whoever the Armenian president, and Armenians worldwide will try to protract the negotiating process for at least five years until 2015, when the biggest lie in modern history, called the mythical Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, will have its 100th anniversary. But I am confident that the Armenians’ expectations will not be fulfilled, since by that time the Karabakh conflict will be settled within the framework of the territorial integrity of our state. It is just a matter of how it will be settled - militarily or peacefully.
Q: How will the superpowers react in the event of new hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia?
A: I would suggest that some of the superpowers would be interested in such developments in order to supply arms to the parties involved and seize full control of the South Caucasus by means of the conflict, driving out of the region other superpowers with which it has a geopolitical confrontation in the whole former USSR area. It is quite possible that these powers feed the impudence of the Armenian leadership. However, none of these forces will fight for Armenia. And Yerevan, which is pushing the entire South Caucasus to a new war and new victims, should bear this in mind.
Q: Considering what you have said, what would be the outcome of a military confrontation between Azerbaijan and Armenia?
A: The Azerbaijani leadership has repeatedly proved its commitment to a peaceful resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. However, the occupation of Azerbaijani land, Armenia’s impudent disregard for the norms of international law and resolutions of influential international organizations that urge the withdrawal of Armenian troops from the Armenian-occupied lands of Azerbaijan, cannot go on forever. Azerbaijan, as a country subject to aggression, has the complete right to restore its territorial integrity by all available means, including war, under Article 51 of the UN Charter.
It is not difficult to predict the outcome of the military confrontation. We all know that the laws of criminals and thieves have replaced normal relations within the Armenian army. In these conditions, there is a great probability that soldiers and officers of the Armenian army, humiliated by their fellows, when they get a gun will shoot not at our positions but at those who have abused and humiliated them. In addition, Azerbaijan's budget expenditure exceeds the overall budget of Armenia six-fold, which would also have great importance in the event of a new war. In addition, Azerbaijan has more than the population of Georgia and Armenia put together and its armed forces also outnumber those of Armenia and Georgia together. But what's most important is that each of us is ready to repeat the heroic action of the national hero of Azerbaijan, Mubariz Ibrahimov. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of new heroes, ready to sacrifice their lives for the territorial integrity and happy future of their country, will be able to achieve the objective in the shortest possible time and restore historic justice.
Akper Hasanov
News.Az
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