Arif Yunusov: "By most parameters today Azerbaijan is more important for the United States, Western Europe and even Russia than Armenia and Armenians"

According to him, in such a situation Azerbaijan's policy should be extremely cautious.

"On the one hand, we must not yield to provocations and act carelessly, like the Georgian leadership recently did, we must attempt to settle emerging problems in relations with Russia by political and diplomatic means and attract the leading western countries to our side.

Commenting on the statement of famous Russian political scientist Stanislav Belkovski who said that it is not urgent to speak of the inviolability of borders after the collapse of several states and appearance of many new ones, Yunusov said though states are permanently collapsing and being created, it does not mean that international laws have been annulled.

"The collapse of any country is profitable for someone, but this is a different issue. In fact, the collapse and creation of new states is still regulated by the international law. Of course, these international laws are often violated, but nevertheless, all, including Russia, try to justify their actions by referring to international laws, which is understandable, for otherwise there would be a chaos in the world", said the political scientist.

At the same time, he said after Kosovo and the recent recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Russia, it is necessary to review most things in the concept of international security and the basic principles of the OSCE. "If it is not done, the process of diffusion of international law may really start", said Yunusov.

As for Nagorno Karabakh he said the process of recognition of independence of Nagorno Karabakh does not been apparent.

"It is admitted that the unilateral actions against Azerbaijan, failure to take into consideration his interests may damage the interests of most countries in the region.

We should not confuse two things: sympathies and antipathies. The whole Christian world, beginning from western countries and to Russia, are sympathizing Armenia and if everything was based on sympathies, Nagorno Karabakh would have been recognized independent or annexed to Armenia long before. But international relations are built on interests both national and state, where Azerbaijan's interests should be taken into account.

By most parameters today Azerbaijan is more important for the United States, Western Europe and even Russia than Armenia and Armenians, though it does not mean that this will last forever. We must know the real distribution of powers in the region and conduct a careful external policy", said the political expert.