ALIYEV IS RAGING, OR BAKU’S HABIT TO PRESENT A FICTION AS THE TRUTH
Friday, 27 March 2015 17:09
Recently, after a comparatively short period of relative calm, the
situation on the Line of Contact between the armed forces of the NKR
and Azerbaijan has again deteriorated sharply.
Almost every day, the Azerbaijani party, ignoring its own considerable
human losses, is attempting to penetrate into the territory of Artsakh,
which, unfortunately, results in casualties among the Karabakh
servicemen as well.
Yet another armed provocation of Azerbaijan, which was committed on
March 19 and resulted in casualties on both sides, forced the American
Co-Chairman of the OSCE Minsk Group, James Warlick, to respond to
this. According to him, the renewed violence in Nagorno Karabakh is
tragic and violates the ceasefire. “While the parties accuse each
other, the actions harm the process of peaceful settlement of the
Karabakh conflict”, the diplomat wrote in his microblog on Twitter.
Surely, Mr. Warlick’s being concerned and anxious about the
deterioration of the situation deserves appreciation, but we should
not ignore the fact that another attempt is made to assign the
responsibility for the gross violation of the ceasefire equally to
both sides. In this regard, it is impossible to refrain from asking
the American diplomat whether he is familiar with the content of the
speech of President Aliyev on the occasion of the Muslim holiday of
Nowruz. We think he should be familiar, as required by his status of
an international mediator in the Karabakh settlement process. And
if he is not, we’ll remind him of it. Aliyev said the following:
“The Karabakh conflict should be resolved only (!!! – Ed.) in the
framework of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. After that, we
Azerbaijanis, will, surely, come back to our ancient lands – Erevan,
Geycha, and Zangezur mahal”. Let us prompt James Warlick that all these
geographic names cited by Aliyev in the Azerbaijani ugly interpretation
are the lands of sovereign Armenia, the territorial integrity of which
this Baku official, advocating this international principle, does not
intend to observe. As if in passing or as a remark, let us also remind
the Washington diplomat that “Erevan” is Yerevan, which is older than
even the eternal city of Rome and for this reason cannot be the “old
land” of Azerbaijanis, who did not exist on the planet that period.
But let’s return from the depths of centuries to our days and ask Mr.
Warlick a question: did he have the pleasure to familiarize also with
the speech of the country’s Defense Minister, Zakir Hasanov, before
his brave soldiers? If not, then it can be only regreted, because he
deprived himself of the opportunity to learn the infinity of human
stupidity in the Azerbaijani filling. Like a parrot, he cited, as if
through a blueprint, the historical pearls of his supreme commander
named Ilham regarding all sorts of mahals, then swung to the armed
forces of Armenia and the NKR. “I openly declare that we’ll destroy
70% of the enemies with the first blow. Armenians will not be able
to recover in hundreds of years”, promised the formidable Zakir, who
has never smelled gunpowder. It is strange that not 100%. Maybe the
parquet General, armed with a calculator, has kept the remaining 30%
for the second blow. And then he broke up, calling on his subordinates
“to use every opportunity day and night to destroy the enemy”. Agree,
it is cruel, first of all, towards their own soldiers, whom the
minister dooms thus to permanent insomnia.
But, let’s be serious, because when the heads of state and army
are people with sick mentality, it isn’t funny at all. There is a
concept in psychology – “wishful thinking”. Such delusion, defined
by psychologists as a personality disorder, is suffered by the noted
persons, who are obsessed by the desire to exaggerate both their
importance and the power of their armed forces. According to experts,
persons with such a diagnosis get used to the role to the degree that
can hardly differ what is the truth and what is fiction in their life.
And they do not want to think about the devastating consequences of
such self-deception. We believe the abovementioned quotations by the
Azerbaijani President and Minister of Defense are more than enough for
James Warlick and his colleagues at the OSCE Minsk Group to realize
the real threat to the region posed by these persons. However, no
less dangerous is the indecision of the international mediators who
do not dare to call the adventurist regime of Azerbaijan to account.
Experience has shown that it is senseless to debate with Aliyev. His
and his defense minister’s incessant bellicose statements facilitated
the Minsk Group co-chairs’ search of the real perpetrators of the
escalation of tension, leaving no doubt for this. The armed clashes
initiated by Azerbaijan on the front line are becoming more dangerous,
putting the region on the brink of a new war. In these conditions,
the mediator-states must abandon their amorphous position and respond
more efficiently to the military rhetoric of Baku, the actions of
which challenge not only Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh, but also the
entire international community. While this does not happen, both
Armenian parties have themselves to suppress harshly any aggressive
encroachments of Azerbaijan, giving a tangible, moreover and as a
rule, an asymmetrical response. It is impossible to act otherwise –
force should be responded with force. As noted in a recent interview
to the ‘Voice of Armenia’ by the Armenian Defense Minister, Seyran
Ohanyan, who, unlike Zakir Hasanov, knows about the war firsthand,
“the matter is not only the implementation of defensive tasks,
but also the warning and preventive measures and the punishment of
the aggressor. If the Azerbaijanis understand only this language,
so they should be talked to in this language”.
Leonid MARTIROSSIAN Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper
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