Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev has used the EU Resolution on the South Caucasus for issuing threats of war, stated Naira Zohrabyan, Co-Chairperson of the Armenia-EU parliamentary commission.
The Azeri leader is trying to deceive the public by presenting the European Parliament’s Resolution “EU Strategy for the South Caucasus” as a resolution on Nagorno-Karabakh.
“A few days ago the Azeri President made one more provocative statement, referring to the EU Strategy for the South Caucasus by the European Parliament. The Armenian legislative and executive bodies pointed out the inconsistency of the resolution. Unfortunately, our forecasts that the resolution would be used against the peaceful process are coming true,” Zohrabyan said. “He keeps on threatening to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in a military way,” she said. With barefaced lie, rephrasing certain points of the resolution, Aliyev claimed it contained proposals for a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
She pointed out that the Azeri leader’s statement runs counter to a number of most important points of the resolution. First, they condemn the idea of a military resolution of the conflict. The resolution also contains an appeal for observing the ceasefire, and underlines the importance of security guarantees as one of the most important components of each solution. “As regards the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the resolution welcomes the intensification of negotiations as a result of the six Armenian-Azerbaijani presidential meetings on the basis of the Moscow statement of 2008,” Zohrabyan said.
The Council of Europe is consistently supporting the OSCE Minsk Group’s activities, as well as the l'Aquila statement, whereas Aliyev’s statements run counter to the letter and spirit of the resolution, Zohrabyan said.
Surprising is the fact that President Aliyev is ignoring the point dealing with human rights in Azerbaijan, particularly an appeal for releasing the bloggers, and is using the resolution for military propaganda.
The Armenian parliamentarian called on her colleagues in the council of Europe to condemn Aliyev’s manner of misusing the name of the Council of Europe and make a political assessment of the Azeri leaders’ threats and provocations.
