And now, announcing that the Armenian armed forces in Karabakh were subject to the Ministry of Defense of Armenia until the last day, and their equipment and weapons were in the balance of the regular army of that country, Samvel Shahramanyan, the last leader of the dissolved separatist regime, confirmed that the almost thirty-year occupation of the sovereign territory of Azerbaijan was carried out. are not separatist gangs, but the Republic of Armenia, writes the official website of Baku.
Such a reaction is expected and, no matter how hard it is to admit, it is completely logical. Aliyev made public his greatest desire to dissolve the Minsk Group, which is the only international institution that recognizes the legal and political entity of Nagorno Karabakh. And that wouldn’t happen if the government of Armenia in 1994 In the negotiations of the first days of May, he did not insist with unyielding determination that he would not sign a ceasefire agreement without the full and equal participation of Nagorno Karabakh.
Exactly 30 years later, Samvel Shahramanyan not only canceled the political history of Nagorno-Karabakh, “but essentially gave Ilham Aliyev a “justification” for the dissolution of the OSCE Minx group. “Because if there was no Defense Army, then the Armenian side of the forty-four-day war is Armenia.” And “since Armenia lost the war for the ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh, what is the meaning of maintaining the OSCE Minsk Group?”
To save face, Shahramanyan, of course, said that “the page of Artsakh is not closed”. But his subtextual “revelation” coincides with the initiative of four political forces to hold a referendum in Armenia on the issue of European Union membership. In case of such a decision by Yerevan, the Nagorno-Karabakh problem will become active. France, Germany and Italy are members of the OSCE Minsk Group. Moreover, France is also the co-chair of the IC, in 2020. a phase of negotiations to end the war has passed in Paris.
Regarding the influence of the European Union in the South Caucasus, there are many interests, for the maintenance of which the maintenance of the OSCE Minsk Group is a resource for dialogue with Baku. The Azerbaijani occupation of Artsakh, the forced deportation of a hundred thousand people, is not legitimized. Yerevan, which is conducting extremely complicated and difficult negotiations with Azerbaijan, is constrained. Political Stepanakert should have taken responsibility for the actualization of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.
Meanwhile, the diametric opposite is happening. And the highest representative body of Artsakh, which does not respond to the “discoveries” of the reporter Samvel Shahramanyan, the National Assembly elected by him, at least did not give a political assessment of the dissolution of NKR in 2023. to his decree of September 28.
What are we dealing with? Shahramanyan-National Assembly consensus? Do all factions of the National Assembly agree that the Defense Army was a “territorial unit of the Armed Forces of Armenia”, in terms of international law, “an expeditionary corps of another country in the territory of one country?” In that case, they are “representatives of the puppet regime of the occupying country.” The political history of Nagorno-Karabakh is not the past. Otherwise, the Aliyev campaign would have ignored the “revelations” of Samvel Shahramanyan. In this regard, the Azerbaijani analyst is more sincere when he says that “they will be needed in the international court”. The situation is borderline, either the National Assembly of Artsakh cancels Shahramanian and his statement with clear political reasons, or it dissolves itself and opens the way for the exiled Artsakh citizens to elect their new representatives. Artsakh collaboration page should be closed
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