By Ivan Gharibyan

Azerbaijani President has actually called on the international community to follow the Libyan scenario and start bombing Nagorno-Karabakh and the security zone surrounding it.

That is the leading idea of his interview with the Russia-24 TV channel. Responding to a question about prospect for a peace settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Azeri President said that the U.N. Security Council adopted four resolutions “on withdrawal of Armenian occupation troops from the Azerbaijani territory, with none of them implemented.”

“When we see the U.S. Security Council’s resolutions put into practice just a few hours after they are approved, whereas resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh have not been implemented for 17 or 18 years, a natural question is: what is the reason for such efficiency and, on the other hand, passivity in our case?” Aliyev added.

If the coalition began air strikes on Libya accusing the country of not implementing the U.N. Security Council’s resolution, President Aliyev’s statements can only be interpreted as a call for similar actions against Nagorno-Karabakh. According to official Baku, four resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh have not so far been implemented.

Aliyev, who must have taken advantage of his interview with the main Russian TV channel to call for following the Libyan scenario in the case of Karabakh, called on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to play an active role in the process (to a large extent, Moscow’s not vetoing the Libya resolution proved the green light to air strikes on Libya).

“So we hope for more active involvement of the mediators, particularly the Minsk Group Co-Chairs and Russia, as a regional country and our neighbor, considering the active role Russia has been playing recently,” the Azerbaijani President particularly said.

No wonder hardly anyone is surprised at the Aliev’s overheated imagination. However, such opinions aired by the main TV channel of Russia, Armenia’s strategic ally, are surprising.