Azerbaijani MP: What remains for Azerbaijan to do is to use its right to liberate Armenia-occupied lands by force

“The activities of the current co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group may seem slow, because when Matthew Bryza was a mediator, he often made inappropriate optimistic statements on the Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations. But after a while, he renounced his words," member of the Azerbaijani parliament Aynur Jamalgizi said.

The MP said Azerbaijan still hopes that the negotiations held under the auspices of international mediators will finally lead to a just settlement to the conflict. Hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani internally displaced persons look forward to return to their native towns and villages.

"But our desire does not coincide with reality because of bias of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs towards Azerbaijan. International negotiators treat the aggressor and the country subject to aggression equally. They make only statements that the parties should themselves reach a common agreement," the MP added.

“There are only two versions of compromise in this issue.”
 
"Armenia will either de-occupy Azerbaijan’s occupied lands or Azerbaijan will give these territories to Armenia, which is totally unacceptable. Of course, the second option is ruled out, because it is Azerbaijan will never do this,” the MP noted.

“Strange enough, they always mean only Azerbaijan when it comes to concessions. They push us to sign defeatist peace and completely bypass the issue of de-occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh. To get the conflict resolved, the world powers should exert pressure on Armenia. But we see opposite of it. The four UN resolutions and the European Union resolution calling for the withdrawal of Armenian troops from Azerbaijan’s lands still remain on paper,” Jamalgizi stated.

“It makes no sense to speak about liberation of Nagorno-Karabakh while the principles of territorial integrity and right of nations to self-determinations are discussed simultaneously because Armenians refuse self-determination within Azerbaijan.”
 
“What remains for Azerbaijan to do is to use right of a country subject to aggression and to liberate Nagorno-Karabakh and other occupied lands by force,” Jamalgizi added.


/Day.Az/