Chairman of the Political Science Association of Armenia, Elected Member of the Academy of Military Sciences (RF), Visiting Professor at the National Defense University (US), Doctor of Political Sciences (RF), Major General Hayk Kotanjian asked the editorial staff of IA REGNUM to publish the following statement.
On August 6, 2014, the official website of the President of Azerbaijan Mr. Ilham Aliyev posted the text of his speech entitled “The president of Azerbaijan, supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces Ilham Aliyev visited a military unit in Aghdam”. In this speech, the Head of the neighboring state used expressions against the Republic of Armenia, flagrantly violating the generally accepted norms of inter-state relations.
A fragment of the official text of the Azerbaijani leader is as follows: – “… If the Armenian fascist state will not give up its dirty deeds, the very existence of the Armenian state can be called into question. …”.
As the Chairman of the Political Science Association of Armenia, I consider it my duty to mention the unacceptability of such expressions for heads of neighboring states having official inter-state relations.
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By his unrestrained and in no way justified definitions the President of Azerbaijan Mr. Ilham Aliyev flagrantly violated the norms of inter-state relations, established by the “Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations”. The definition of “fascist state”, read out through the mouth of the President of Azerbaijan to the Republic of Armenia, can only hinder the efforts to establish peace and stability in the South Caucasus, as well as the success of the forthcoming meeting of the Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Sochi at the invitation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chair – the President of the Russian Federation.
I have the honor to express the hope that such expressions – inconsistent with international norms of inter-state relations would not be repeated by the head of the neighboring state.
Dr. Hayk Kotanjian
Chairman of the Political Science Association of Armenia
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary