NA MP Margarit Yesayan is convinced
Recently, we learned from the PACE website that years ago PACE adopted a resolution condemning Azerbaijan for granting Ramil Safarov a pardon. The Standing Committee of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) condemns Azerbaijan for using one of the conventions of the Council of Europe has released convicted Ramil Safarov immediately after extradition. The resolution compiled based on the report of UK MP Christopher Chope adopted after the discussions held in Brussels reads that the use of Article 12 of Convention on the “Transfer of Sentenced Persons” for the Azerbajani officer Ramil Safarov’s case is an “infringement of bona fide principles and the rule of law in international relations.”
The RA NA MP, head of Armenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie, Margarit Yesayan, is sure that this conviction is late, but an important fact, which perhaps can be a call for sobriety for different international organizations. “If this statement, this conviction were in time, maybe Azerbaijan would finally have started being accountable for its policy. Destruction of the helicopter performing a training flight obviously is contrary to all international norms, and, naturally, the international institutions are obligated to give an assessment. First of all, to defend their credibility and reputation. Reactions, condemnations and expressing concerns were not late, but they are very much the same to nothing saying statements made until now.
Our European friends are always limited to expressing concerns only. And this very fact, enables Azerbaijan to be guided by the principle of absolute impunity, violations of universal and international norms. Azerbaijan does not fit into the universal human values system. It is more convenient for a country where the human rights and the right to self-determination of the nation have no value. And when someone puts itself beyond generally accepted norms, it makes no more sense to speak to it with a civilized vocabulary and diplomatic nuances. It is high time for the international organizations to condemn not in words but in actions, the subject matter is not only the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, but the mandate and influential power of the same EU, PACE, OSCE, State Department and the Minsk Group. With its inhuman behavior and trade of corpse, Azerbaijan sends a challenge to everyone and in response, it receives a parity and nothing saying calls and exhortations, hence, also an opportunity to start a war. And the experienced, visionary and prudent officials of international organizations cannot but understand it.” To the question of “Aravot” whether the behavior of the Azerbaijani side to the representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Anjey Kasprishik may become an opportunity for the international structures assess the situation more sober, as it was also a slap on the OSCE and Minsk Group, Margarit Yesayan said, “Obviously, what happened is the result of a bad manner, our neighbors once again did not hide their true face, and yes, I agree that this move was a slap on the same international community, therefore, I reiterate my belief that this should be given an adequate response by the structures representing the same community”.
Read also
Note that the Azerbaijani side had not allowed the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Anjey Kasprishik to visit the place of falling of Karabakh helicopter downed by Azerbaijan. According to the MP, the behavior of the Armenian side completely fits in the framework of international norms, and also followed by its assessment, the PACE and OSCE and other structures should demonstrate an equivalent counteraction to Azerbaijan, and first of all it was to be done by the CSTO, to which Armenia is a member (whereas Nikolay Bordyuzha’s statement was as neutral as the US State Department’s), and also it was to be done the strategic partner Russian Foreign Ministry. How long can the Parties be called for peace, persistently failing to notice that only one side is search for war by crossing out the peace, searching openly and being armed daily, and everyone knows and sees that this side is Azerbaijan. The history of all terrorist groupings shows that when you arm today, tomorrow the weapon will be directed against you.
Forgetting the law of the boomerang is the most dangerous for political and public figures. The history gives lessons and we should not forget these lessons. Margaret Yesayan did not share our observation that the matter is also the results of dereliction of duties of foreign policy of Armenia. the MP opines, “The entities responsible for foreign policy of Armenia are doing everything possible to regulate the situation without resumption of war and without new victims. Artsakh problem should be resolved exclusively peacefully. Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, in these years, have done everything and still will do to solve the problem through negotiations and only through peace. All those who fume about swagger with war calls and the statements of giving an equivalent response to this-or-that move by Azerbaijanis should ultimately realize that swaggering is unsubstantiated for receiving success in foreign policy and pro-Armenia solution of the Karabakh conflict.” Margarit Yesayan cannot talk about non-government forces with the same praising. “None of them said anything during these days, no call was made to the same international structures and Azerbaijan. This also speaks of inadequate behavior of these forces, they do not realize that the homeland is one and the only one, and it does not matter at all whether you are a government or non-government.”
Nelly GRIGORYAN
