We knew that Russia has sold serious weapons to Azerbaijan under the so to speak “business plan”. We are sure that Azerbaijan would have received a serious military aid from Turkey, moreover, not under the business plan but absolutely free. We also learned that on March 31, 2016, Israeli provide anti-tank laser rockets to Azerbaijan. “Azerbaijan is the first country acquiring these rockets and it has certainly given an advantage to its military capabilities.” These are not our assumptions but an evidence by Alexander Murinson, a fellow of Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, in his interview with “Voice of America” Azerbaijani service.
In fact, military equipment is supplied to economically incomparably rich Azerbaijan from the right and left while the Armenian soldier is fighting with weapons produced in the “80’s”. In that sense, our army is truly the most combative army in the region. The fierce battles of the war in recent days showed that the Armenian soldiers with their devotion and self-sacrifice managed to neutralize and in fact destroy these advantages of military equipment of Azerbaijani army. Should these advantages ensured serious advantages to them in the battlefield, they would not even think about a temporary ceasefire. In fact, a soldier is fighting from our side and weapons from their side. Undoubtedly, on the first days of the war, all the weapons and ammunition available with Azerbaijanis was not used. Definitely, they have other and more horrible weapons. But we also have not used the entire military potential. Thousands of volunteers are readily waiting for their turn. This fact not only gives hope and strength to our people but also to our army and our army leadership.
In short, we are alone and strong. We are alone also in the political sense. If the EaEU leader Russia, on these days, is putting the sign of equality between the EaEU member state Armenia and Azerbaijan, the EaEU member Kazakhstan is obviously acting as Azerbaijan’s supporter, if the Belarus representatives are making gratuitously and mostly irrelevant speeches in favor of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, this means that we are more than alone in the foreign political arena. We are confident that if the occasion grants, Georgian and Ukrainian politicians and statesmen will also talk in favor of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity. As they say, “there are no eternal friends and enemies, there are only interests.” The relations between Russia and Azerbaijan are the proof of it. We would not be surprised if tomorrow or the day after tomorrow Russia and Turkey would review their relations too, in accordance with their interests.
As for us, life shows that we have no option of dropping our eternal enemies, especially since not only our eternal enemies are reluctant to do it but also our eternal “friends.” As for the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and the positive attitude of Ukraine and others, recently, one of our opposition members expressed an opinion that if we had protected the interests of Ukrainians on the Crimea, Ukrainians would not support the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. A naïve and amateur opinion. Ukrainians and Georgians have the issue of Crimea, Abkhazia and Ossetia, and it is impossible for them to speak against the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. When the Soviet Union was collapsing, everyone was giving preference to self-determination of peoples, and based on this principle, the Soviet republics became independent. Now, the world and especially the world powers give the preference to the territorial integrity. Kosovo, in fact, was an exception. Many of the world powers are against Artsakh to be the next exception. But this does not mean that we should sit idle. Fighting in the battlefield alone and coming out of this heavy situations with dignity, we need to seek and find supporters in the political field and make the world guided by double standards to realize that the people of Artsakh have the right to build their state on their historical and ancestral land like all the peoples in the world. And it’s already a quarter of a century it builds its state: a small, beautiful and a wonderful state. Incidentally, they are building it with the arms in their hands because they are many who disturb and few who support.
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Voskan YEREVANTSY,
“Aravot”
