If someone supports the “Azerbaijan’s sovereignty by internationally recognized borders and territorial integrity”, then irrespective of what last name he carries: Putin, Obama, Poroshenko, Merkel, Ban Ki-moon, he is in favor of the brutal murder of thousands of Armenians in Artsakh. The borders, sovereignty and territorial integrity are not a bad thing in itself. But what Azerbaijan’s leadership understand under it undoubtedly means a massacre of Armenians, bloodshed, torture of living and dead people as it had been (if we do not go too far) starting from Sumgait and ending with Talish village recently. If Azerbaijan “restores its sovereignty” (which in reality will never happen), it will behave exactly like that. The above-mentioned figures know it by heart. It is not that they are in delusion and their eyes need to be opened. The problem, therefore, is not in the fact which is the priority: the territorial integrity or the people’s self-determination but in the fact that people should not be treated like that and we, the Armenians, are obligated not to allow it. Those who are in favor of Azerbaijan’s “sovereignty and integrity” are actually in favor of the Azeris atrocities.
Politics, of course, is a cruel thing. The pro-Azerbaijani stance of Ukraine in Armenia is explained as follows: on March 14, 2014, Armenia was among those 11 rather “unpleasant” countries that were against the UN documents condemning the annexation of the Crimea by Russia. Ukrainian authorities, accordingly, is taking a political “revenge” from us. I partly agree with it, the annexation of Crimea was a reprehensible move and Armenia should not have appeared among the “outcast” who condemn this move. But the Russian soldiers have not entered the houses of Ukrainians in Crimea, killing and torturing them. Politically, the annexation of the Crimea and systematic attacks on Artsakh by Azerbaijan, perhaps, are equal. But not in moral and human sense.
In reality, the problem, of course, is deeper and has nothing to do with “keeping malice” for two years. “Let us not be engaged in self-deception and vain illusions, we do not have allies in the issue of Karabakh’s independence,” announced the first President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, on November 1, 1997. “I have to state that we have no illusions, we have no powerful sponsors,” said Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan, a few days ago. The presidents perhaps are right but I do not see a great tragedy in it. There are millions of intelligent Armenians in Armenia, Artsakh and abroad who are capable of solving our problems.
Incidentally. Nazarbayev as a sign of solidarity with Aliyev refused to come to Armenia to attend the meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Eurasian Economic Union and has offered to hold this event in Moscow. Maybe once we have also treated Nazarbayev wrongly?
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Aram ABRAHAMYAN
