Azerbaijani MP on what conditions Azerbaijan will use force to solve Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

According to Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, liberation of five regions surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh has been resolved and the sides will now negotiate liberation of Kalbajar and Lachin regions. In your opinion, how will Yerevan further behave in negotiations?

At talks held within the OSCE Minsk Group, Azerbaijani diplomacy makes every effort to ensure a just settlement to the Karabakh conflict. It is very difficult to predict Armenia’s actions and behavior because this country is not a separate and independent entity. The actions of the country, an outpost of another State, are hard to predict. One thing is clear that Azerbaijan’s position is supported by international legal norms. Negotiations within the OSCE will continue also after seven regions are liberated. It is very difficult to predict further course of events.

Of course, Azerbaijan will not sign a document which does not suit it. Baku has announced many times that restoration of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity is the basis for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Azerbaijan will never give up the principle of territorial integrity.

Some experts argue that resumption of hostilities in Karabakh is inevitable. In your view, how far is this realistic?

Azerbaijan, as a country subjected to aggression, has the right to liberate its occupied territories by force. If the negotiations continue in destructive manner, Azerbaijan will be forced to resort to a military solution. But Azerbaijan wants to solve the problem, as they say, without "blood". However, if peaceful means have no effect, of course, hostilities may resume.
 
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Azerbaijan-America relations have a nature of strategic partnership. Clinton’s visit to Azerbaijan will further boost these relations.
 
It is believed that the United States and the West pursue policy of double standards toward Azerbaijan in terms of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict…

International documents on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict adopted by the UN, OSCE, OIC and other orgaizations recognize Azerbaijan’s lands under Armenian control as occupied. Another thing is that the occupier country is not exerted proper pressure. From this view point, West politics has double standards. And this is deeply regrettable.


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