President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, speaking at the Organization of Turkic States summit in Ankara, announced. “According to the concept of return developed by the community of Western Azerbaijan, a legally binding international agreement with an appropriate mechanism of guarantee and ratification should be reached to return forcibly displaced Azerbaijanis from the territory of current Armenia to their native land. Just as we, the Azerbaijani state, will ensure the individual rights and security of Armenians living in Karabakh, Armenia should also provide the rights and security of West Azerbaijanis based on the principle of reciprocity.
The guest of “Aravot” “Areresum” (“Confrontation”) program, the Founder-Director of “Hay Aspet” educational charitable foundation Karin Tonoyan, the mother of Artsakh hero Menua Hovhannisyan, referring to this proposal, said: “Now if they say that we also give rights and guarantees to Armenian refugees to return to Azerbaijan, will any Armenians return?” I don’t think they will come back. Why won’t they return? Because they are sure that this “guaranteed security” will not work there. What the head of the country says or how they keep what they say is another thing; what the people say is another thing. Therefore, I say: Welcome, Azerbaijanis. I dream of meeting you and wonder when and where I will meet. Come on; we have a business to do with you. Do you understand that people’s intolerance is essential? When the leadership is so weak, so cowardly, and does so much “come, come,” the people should take on the function of the owner of the country and say: yes, you want to start destruction inside my house, let’s see. If, for some reason, we could not resolve the issue with you during the war, let’s see how you will live in our country.”
On March 22, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, during the hearing held in the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, referring to Washington’s attempts to facilitate the normalization of relations between Baku and Yerevan, said: “I think there is an opportunity, I don’t want to exaggerate, but there is a favorable opportunity that allows actually to complete the preparation of the peace agreement.”
The other guest of the program, the former Mayor of Yerevan, Founding Commander of the “Nikol Duman” detachment, and Colonel of the reserve army, Albert Bazeyan, assessing whether there is a possibility of concluding a peace agreement in the foreseeable future, said: “Nikol Pashinyan may try to sign a peace agreement. But in this case, Artsakh will remain part of Azerbaijan. That is why he should not sign a peace agreement. Even if he signed it, in the event of a change of power, we would not recognize his peace agreement.”
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By the way, according to the Vienna Convention, any agreement under conditions of threat or its immediate implementation is null and void. Albert Bazeyan emphasized that now the process is going on under the threat of using force.
“The only positive thing that today’s government can do is to delay the signing of that agreement as much as possible, also with an internal decision that it will not be signed,” said Karin Tonoyan, adding: “Until we have the strength to stand up our army.” By the way, in the context of the issue that the possibility of the resumption of hostilities may be due to the situation created in the negotiation process, Albert Bazeyan said: “If suddenly there is a tense situation at the borders and they try to break something again with military force, I will leave my political activities, form a volunteer squad and go to protect our borders.” “And not only you,” Karin Tonoyan added. “I will also be at the border, next to my friends.” Instead of my son, I will stand in the first position.”
The entire conversation is in the video
Anna ISRAELYAN
