One more USAN letter published: The Miami Herald: Sending Mixed Signals (on NK terminology by White House)
The U.S. Azeris Network (USAN) absolutely deplores, denounces and protests any usage of the term, “people of Nagorno-Karabakh,” by the White House, President Obama or any U.S. official. The term used in a June 23 statement, and indirectly attributed to President Obama’s phone conversation with the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia, contravenes the 1992 Baker Rules, State Department policy and all preceding administrations. It also contradicts logic to call two presidents, but address three people.
There are only two people locked in the conflict over the NK region, the Armenian and Azerbaijani people. There are no “Nagorno-Karabakh people,” just as there is no such recognized independent entity. The entire Karabakh region remains Armenian or Azerbaijani ethnically, and Azerbaijani by citizenship.
The Office of the Press Secretary’s usage of ambiguous terminology in regards to Armenia’s aggression and occupation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan can lead to confusion and send mixed signals to the scholarly community and the general public.
It will also lead to distortions by the Armenian government to misrepresent the White House statement as some tacit recognition of, and legitimacy for, the criminal regime occupying this de jure part of Azerbaijan for the past 20 years that displaced 600,000 Azerbaijanis of Karabakh.
USAN and Azerbaijani-Americans support the Obama administration’s attempts to help resolve the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but urge these efforts to be based on United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Aygun Suleymanova, Miami
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/27/2287870_p2/homeowners-beware.html#ixzz1R7cr6WAf
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