Aliyev’s “middle power” concept against Pashinyan’s “real Armenia”, ed

Nikol Pashinyan, referring to the possibility of war in a briefing with journalists after the Cabinet meeting, said:

“As long as we will consistently pursue and serve the peace agenda by all possible means, there will be no war, there will be peace.”

And Baku continues to remind that official Yerevan and Nikol Pashinyan’s government still have work to do for final peace, in particular, it is about changing the existing Constitution and pushing out the Declaration of Independence from it, because, according to Aliyev, it makes territorial demands.

At the same time, Aliyev’s assistant Hikmet Hajiyev He announced during his speech at the Trans-Caspian Forum.

«After the settlement of the conflict with Armenia, Azerbaijan switched to the concept of “middle power”.

Hajiyev continued that the concept of “Middle power” for them is not measured only by scale, economy and population, but it implies a network of partnership of countries.

“Azerbaijan is a country of the South Caucasus. At the same time, we belong to the family of Central Asia (in Turkish textbooks there will be significant changes in historical and geographical terms and, in particular, we are instructed to call “Central Asia” “Turkestan”) and the Caspian Sea region. Azerbaijan has, so to speak, identities related to Europe and the Middle East. All these values ​​do not contradict each other, but are combined,” Aliyev’s assistant emphasized.

Earlier, in May, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev announced that Azerbaijan is perceived in the world as medium power.

This essentially means that Azerbaijan considers itself or is perceived as a country that has sufficient diplomatic weight, resources and independence to influence global or regional processes.

In other words, Azerbaijan currently believes that unresolved foreign political issues should be resolved through diplomacy, be active on international platforms, why not get involved in international coalitions? Let’s not forget here also about the “Organization of Turkic States” (TDC-TDT), within the framework of which, from time to time, conversations about creating a unified defense system are activated.

Can we assume that in the context of the unresolved problems of Armenia-Azerbaijan, the Turkish-Azerbaijani tandem may exert international and foreign political pressures on our country, as well as economic, energy, transport pressures?

Of course, yes, and it’s very obvious.

If we take the purely diplomatic part, we have not once written that Baku has increased allocations in the field of diplomacy, has activated “legal and political” work, which it sometimes also places in the logic of international human rights, including in the context of the “Western Azerbaijan” political project.

In other words, everything is not so “innocent”, especially when Armenia does not even develop mechanisms to restrain or counteract Azerbaijan’s steps and “soft” pressures arising from the “middle power” concept, as it should, not what is served.

It should be noted that, according to various experts, in any case, military power is not neglected in the context of “middle power”, and a country adopting this concept must have sufficient capabilities to ensure stability in its own region based on deterrence tactics and defensive orientation.

168.amrecently had written that the Aliyev propaganda machine admitted that for Baku the issue of Karabakh’s security is no less important than the economic recovery of the region, because the main priority is ensuring the normal and safe life of people returning to the liberated territories.

“That’s why along with creating civil infrastructures, a modern security system is also being formed. And the next attempts to test the strength of the region or question the established realities, whoever it is, will be strictly stopped,” the Azerbaijani propaganda machine warned.

On the other hand, the creation of a “security system” in Artsakh and around it testifies to Aliyev’s fears that today’s realities may change in a rapidly changing world. This is global. And in the case of Armenia, as long as Armenia falls victim to Azeri demands, of course there will be no war, Pashinyan also promises this.

And here is a question: how much is Pashinyan’s concept of “real Armenia” local production equivalent to the “middle power” concept adopted by Baku based on international laws, which also implies a certain status quo? The answer is perhaps obvious. And now Nikol Pashinyan excitedly accepts the congratulations of the countries that have contributed to Azerbaijan’s victory in the 44-day war of 2020: Turkey, Pakistan, Baku and US President Trump, under whose presidency the 44-day war took place, are also happy with the victory of the CP, and Macron also has his contribution to the process of leaving Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan.

In other words, in fact, these are the countries that “gifted” Baku the status of “middle power”.

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