The
chairman of the commission of the NA Foreign relations, the representative of
ARF General body of Armenia Armen Roustamian says.- The interpretation
one of the official ways of propaganda followed the report of the fact-collecting
mission of OSCE Minsk that "we can argue that in case of right policy of
the Armenian side we’ll have rather profitable document, which can be used in
the further negotiations round Karabakh issue." Do you share this enthusiasm?
– I consider that report positive. It slackened those strategic grounds that
Azerbaijan had tried to affirm with the help of this initiation. They have produced
a thesis about territories by which it was considered that if Armenia doesn’t
control those territories Karabakh also doesn’t, as they don’t recognize at all
that a state exists there. So they affirmed that this territory was out of control.
And more. The head of Azerbaijani delegation in OSCE Ilham Aliev based on that
thesis and declared that "this a black point on the map", which is a
cluster of terrorist groups, trafficking, narcotics. Then the point of view was
changed when he became the President of Azerbaijan. And now the strategy is that
as if Armenia had occupied those territories so our country controlled it. Aliev
tried to insist on this affirmation by his demarche of resettlement. He needed
in affirmation of that fact and to connect it with Armenia. While the resettlement
took place by natural process, because of the aggression that Azerbaijan had realized.
There are more than 400 000 refuges who emigrated by force from Azerbaijan. The
same quantity of people could be resettled there and it would be legal.- You
affirm that Azerbaijan didn’t reach his goal with the help of this report while
Ilham Aliev and the deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Araz Azimov were satisfied
with the conclusions of the mission mentioning that their data was also included
in that report.- But they have nothing to say; they wouldn’t admit the fiasco
of their general theory. It is natural that Araz Azimov would try to assure that
the issue doesn’t concern to the resettled people but it leads the process. And
they affirm again that Armenia has realized the resettlement. This is important
for them and not the human factor, human rights, the problem of refugees, which
is important for the international community. And Azerbaijan must only use both
the Azerbaijani and Armenian refugees for its own political projects, strategic
problems and propaganda.- The OSCE mission hasn’t come to the conclusion that
the resettlement is "the result of the policy the Government of Armenia carries
out specially". It is mentioned in the report that this is the purposeful
policy of Nagorno-Karabakh. But it is also mentioned that the co-chairmen haven’t
decided yet the degree of cooperation between Armenia and NK.- This is one
of the most important affirmations by which the role and place of both the Republic
of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia must be determined. And it is time to call everything
by its name. We must say clearly that the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh exists,
which controls all those territories as a state. It is the owner. Armenia has
assisted and will assist, as our country is the guarantee of RNK independence
and security. And Armenia can give money from its budget as the international
community does in case of all refugees. Why must we avoid of it or consider it
as illegal process?- The international community would consider illegal if
the mission affirmed that Armenia carries out "a state policy led by budget
payments".- It can’t consider illegal. The international community and
those organizations must themselves give answers why they don’t recognize human
rights in that region. We have a lot of examples, which we’ll produce during parliamentary
hearings that the common citizen suffers from it.- The Ministry of Foreign
Affairs declared that Armenia has produced an application to the OSCE Permanent
Council to send such a mission to the regions which were settled by Armenians
in past but now are under control of Azerbaijan, these are Northern Martakert,
Eastern Martuni and Shahumian. What is the importance of that mission for our
diplomacy?- It is very important to make clear that these refuges indeed have
rights. And they can demand from Azerbaijan and all those organizations which
are engaged in the issues of refuges to recognize their rights and think of compensation.
And more, the most part of the Azerbaijani refuges who left here has got the compensation
but no Armenian come from there has got the compensation. But now they are accused
of finding a place in those hard conditions. They are the victims of the policy
that Azerbaijan carries out.Anna Israelian
