ACTUAL QUOTATION
Ali BABAJAN, Turkish Foreign Minister:
“We must assess each chance for the conflict settlement in OSCE space. The war in Georgia showed obviously that the frozen conflicts can re-burst into flame. We urge co-chairmen to join efforts to eliminate differences between two parties, and also to develop and present to the structure a thorough regional declaration…Any version of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement should be based on principle of respect for territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.”
From statement during a speech at 16th session of the OSCE’s Council of Foreign Ministers in Helsinki on 5 December 2008
Andrei STRATAN, Foreign Minister of Moldova:
“Now it is crucial moment when OSCE should demonstrate efficient work and contribute to the settlement of conflicts by peaceful means within principles of respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of the internationally recognized frontiers of states.”
From statement during a speech at 16th session of the OSCE’s Council of Foreign Ministers in Helsinki on 5 December 2008
The U.S. Congress:
“On the night from 19 to 20 January the Soviet Army consisting of 26,000 military carried out tank attack on Baku. The attack made under the instruction of Mikhail Gorbachev aimed at repression of growing democratic movement in Azerbaijan. But Soviet leadership’s intention to suppress Azerbaijani people’s love for freedom gave adverse effect. This tragedy caused not only national rebirth in Azerbaijan but also gave impetus to the collapse of Soviet Union. In spite of the fact that it is already 17 years 20 per cent of lands of Azerbaijan are under the occupation of neighbor Armenia, and also availability of residuary economic and social problems since Soviet time, the independent Azerbaijan demonstrates serious economic development.”
From statement of Congressman from Tennessee state Stephen Koen from 20 January 2009
Benita Ferrero VALDNER, the Commissioner of the European Union for External Affairs:
“Azerbaijan is very important country in Caucasus for the European Union. The Caucasus is our neighbors and we’d like to make our relationships closer. The Azerbaijani authority improves economy but there are also other issues. I think that this economic growth in the field of trade and energy should be also accompanied by fair elections, protection of human rights, especially freedom of mass media that are the fundamental values for EU. Thus, I highlighted the fields in which we would like to see rapid growth.”
From press statement during a visit to Baku on 21 January 2009
Oldjas SULEYMENOV, the well-known writer, publicist, public figure:
“There it cannot be a second opinion. The nation who esteem its own culture, will esteem culture of other nations. And that’s why destruction of Azerbaijani cultural monuments by Armenians is certainly vandalism.”
From press statement during a visit to Baku on 2 December 2008
Frederic STAR, the chief of Institute of Studies for Central Asia and Caucasus of John Hopkins University:
“From the very outset I knew that Minks process is doomed. I do not know what shape this process will take in further, but currently it is clear that Minsk process has failed. I think that it would be fondly to suppose that some miracle would be happened in negotiation process giving some results. The only way for progress in this issue is to change positions of Moscow and Yerevan in this issue. In Yerevan there are those understanding that this is deadlock and there is clearly a need to act otherwise, to do anything. As sooner their voices are heard in Armenia so better it will be for all. Only after such changes it will be possible the regulation of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and further cooperation of regional countries which will be only in favor of the region. Certainly, Russia has power enough to solve the Nagorno-Karabakh problem. But this process will be delayed until Russia does not change its actions in Caucasus.”
From exclusive interview for APA in Baku on 19 December 2008
Francisco GAGOR, the chief of General Staff of Armed Forces of Poland:
“Having expressed my country’s position in respect to Nagorno-Karabakh I say that the conflict can be settled only within territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.”
From statement at a meeting with Defence Minister of Azerbaijan in Baku on 23 January 2009
Georgians about Armenians
Feliks TSERTSVADZE
TO STOP THE STREAMS OF LIE AND HYPOCRISY
(Beginning in previous issues)
CHAPTER EIGHT
EPILOGUE
In addition to the actively applied triad of provocation-repression-indignation, a new one was added: lull-mutiny-war, and then again lull-mutiny-war. Presently it is lull. Does it mean war is coming? We will answer to this question later, for now let us continue. From the presented table, it is evident that the Armenian revolts started when empires, whose citizens they were, were weakening. It was then when formerly loyal and nice Armenian citizens stroke a sudden blow from inside (or from behind). These blows were, as a rule, treacherous and played a fatal role in the destiny of the empire.
It happened to the Ottomans, it happened to the Soviet, called the USSR. Where are these empires now? They seized half of Azerbaijan and established their own state on its territory. At the same time, they kept the Diaspora, its financial and political power and actively promote the idea of the world recognition of the never-happened Armenian genocide having consigned to oblivion millions of human lives, destroyed by Armenian executioners and killers with the help of their allies, Great powers during the civil war.
…From the second triad of lull-mutiny-war, we define the period of the so-called Armenian genocide. According to ArP’s version (Armenian propaganda – ed.), declared till 2005, it happened in 1915. According to their new version, declared after April 2005, it was in the period through 1878 to 1923. We will consider the second, the ‘fresher’ version. Now, we know why ArP assigns 1878 as the beginning of the genocide; only because of the naked assertion by Varjapetyan about the ‘sufferings of Armenians.’ Therefore, we can easily put aside the first two years. We take 1880 as the beginning of the to-be-considered period, the beginning of first Armenian provocations, growing into revolts, which in their turn, grew into a civil war. The war, as we know, ended with a peaceful agreement in 1921. Thus, we put aside the last two years as well. We get the real contours of the conflict, 1880-1921.
Can one pick a year out of the sequence of these years of 1880-1921 and review it apart? Of course, not. All of them are organically connected and constitute a whole, which an ideologist of ‘Dashnaktsutyun,’ Ovanez Kachaznuni defined as uninterrupted process: “… after all, we (the Armenians – F.Ts.), throughout our existence, have been fighting the Turks…” Note …We… have been fighting the Turks… If they were fighting it means they were deliberately undertaking losses, as it is not possible to fight without losses. Even the legendary ArP could hardly refute the axiom. Then, what are the complaints against the Turks, Messrs Armenians and apologists of every stripe and color who have joined them? You were cruelly firing, killing, slaughtering, strangling, burning alive, raping (it is irrefutably evident) not only the Turks, but also, the Kurds, Azerbaijanis, Lezgis, mountain Jews, Georgians, and all others, who came under your hand. It means the Turks, as well as the Azerbaijanis and others, had a lawful right to treat you the same way to defend themselves. As the saying has it, you must reap what you have sown!
If the Armenian side claims to qualify its losses during the civil war started by themselves, which they undertook deliberately, as genocide, the same right to qualify their losses as genocide must be granted to Turkish, Azerbaijani, and other sides, whose members were exterminated by the Armenians and their allies, Russian militants and Shaumyan and Mikoyan’s communists. Moreover, the latter have suffered much more than the Armenians, which is also irrefutably evident.
An attempt to qualify somehow the losses of one side, while totally ignoring the losses of the other, as if they never existed, is unreasonable.
In all this confusion, I do not understand one thing. Why have 70 million Turks and 30 million Azerbaijanis taken such a position, which allows 6 million Armenians for 91 years to impose their will? Attacks of Armenian propaganda do not receive proper rough opposition. From time to time every possible European organization announces their sympathies with Armenian losses. Meanwhile, the Turkish and Azerbaijani losses are cynically ignored.
Maybe, in Turkey, they think they have nothing to lose, the borders of the state are defined and stable, they are a member country of NATO, but one cannot say the same about Azerbaijan.
What is the Azerbaijani leadership waiting for? The time when the scope of Azerbaijani influence is limited to the borders of the Absheron peninsula? Somebody can say that it is too much. But you must analyze the tempo of the Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani territories in the XX century… I hope that, to some extent, my position will help the Azerbaijani side to restore its sovereignty within the borders of Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, like in 1987.
Otherwise, the alerting process in the world has started. Chernogoriya declared its independence. Kosovo is next in line. Russia is openly speaking of Southern Osetiya and Abkhaziya. Pridnestrovye is approaching. When the process speeds up, Karabakh will be under a real threat of tearing apart from Azerbaijan not only de-facto, but also de-jure. Something must be done!
Now, as I have promised, I will answer the question stated several paragraphs above. Question: Does it mean war is coming? Answer: The weak do not fight the strong. The strong fight the weak. I would refrain from comments and leave them for readers’ consideration.
PHILIPP BOBKOV, the Army Gen.
KGB and Power
(beginning in previous issues)
Zori Balayan, the journalist and writer has also done “his best”. Being in America, he traveled all over the places where the bulk of Armenians live, and having hinted at Gorbachov, declared about the submission of Nagorno-Karabakh under the jurisdiction of Armenia.
Another “activist” turned out to be son of A.I.Mikoyan – Sergo who went to Armenia and much developed this subject (A.I.Mikoyan was for a long time among the leadership of the USSR and had considerable “merits” to the prejudice of the Azerbaijan people, including the seizure of the territories of the Azerbaijan SSR and deportation of Azerbaijanis from Armenia – the edition’s comment).
Naturally, the people in Armenia misunderstood after all these speeches that the question was allegedly solved, and the regional council of Nagorno-Karabakh declared about the withdrawal of the Autonomous Region from the structure of Azerbaijan.
Only then the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CC of the CPSU) realized all the complexity of the situation and passed the decision not to change the borders of the republic, to leave all as it was and “to solve the problem finally during the perestroika”. But hardly anyone could explain what it meant. One thing was clear to everyone – the question was removed from the agenda for the time being. However, the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh not only remained to be on the agenda, but it worsened even more. Disorders started in Baku. The delegation led by Secretary to the CC of the CPSU, G.P.Razumovski, where candidate to the Political Bureau members, P.N.Demichev and I were included, was sent to Azerbaijan. Having visited Baku, where everyone remained satisfied with a Political Bureau decision, we went to the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh – Stepanakert. By that time no one knew there about the conclusions of the Central Committee thinking that the question had been solved to the benefit of Armenia. We were met at the city entry to by big groups of festively dressed people with red flags and the slogans glorifying the friendship of the people and thanking the country leadership for “fair solution” to the Karabakh conflict. It was a February day, but sunny and warm, and pioneers in red ties welcomed us by waving small flags in the streets of Stepanakert. It was a real celebration.
We, of course, felt rotten, because we were bringing absolutely different news to the townspeople. And this fact can vividly show how much the people were misled, how strong the moral pressure was; the whole mass of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh turned out to be drawn into, to say the truth, foul provocation. The Karabakh problem deepened and got intensified more and more. It inflicted a heavy injury to two nations and inflamed even greater the hostility between them. Armenia didn’t uphold the decision of the Political Bureau of the CC of the CPSU. All the party organizations, beginning from the CC of the Communist Party of Armenia, adopted it, but conditionally, with the stipulation: the question should be solved at the nearest plenum of the CC of the CPSU. And this so-called “the third point” of the party organizations’ decision actually united the communists of Armenia with the nationalist elements included into the “Karabakh” Committee which demanded immediate annexation of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia. Our group led by Razumovski could convince the party-economic leadership of the region that it was impossible to remake the borders of the republics then and inflame national internecine dissension even more. However, we considered necessary to provide the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh with all the conditions for driving normal life, development of national culture and traditions. The members of party-economic leadership agreed with us. That was how the foundation for the crisis settlement was laid. The plain logic suggested: the decision of the party-economic leadership was not a joke; after all it was a reflection of the opinion of the Nagorno-Karabakh population which couldn’t be ignored by the Centre. The leadership of Armenia should have supported it.
But to our surprise, nothing of that was done. Instead of approving the decision of the party-economic activists, the CC of the Communist Party of Armenia delayed its publication for some days. And this intensified the movement for the status change of Nagorno-Karabakh even more.
(to be continued)
2009 – The Year of Child in Azerbaijan
But some Azerbaijani children still suffer in Armenian capture
At the end of last year, more precisely on December 22, the President of Azerbaijan signed the decree on the announcement of 2009 – “The Year of Child” in Azerbaijan. The document was adopted to strengthen state care for children, increase of attention of the civil society structures to the problems of children in the Republic of Azerbaijan and definition of demographic prospects connected with children in the country.
It is notable that certain conditions have been created in the country to maintain the health of еру growing up generation, provision of its all-around development, upbringing and education. The corresponding organizations and establishments function in this line. According to the AR Ministry of Education, 110.774 children are educated in 1.777 infant schools, 117 children are educated in 3 private infant schools, 1.629.841 pupils are taught in 4.542 schools of general education and 4.510 pupils – in 11 private schools of general education.
The state makes efforts to form healthy and intellectually developed future of the Azerbaijan society – children and teenagers of the country. But at the same time, there are some problems which are beyond its possibilities and disturb the realization of this aim. Basically, these are the problems created as a result of Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan.
The Azerbaijani children of the end of 80s – beginning of 90s of the past century were struck by the fatal lot: that was the time of the very beginning of the notorious “Armenian movement” for the seizure of native Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh which subsequently overgrew into the undeclared bloody war – the most tragic page in the life of Azerbaijani population. This war brought with itself great pain, death and losses, cruelty and destruction, grief and suffering for many people, and, first of all, for children. Children died from shells and bombs, they became eyewitnesses of the death of their relatives, the forced witnesses of the cruelty and violence acts committed by Armenians toward their parents, starved and froze; they outlived the indescribable feeling of fear and horror and will probably never recover from this shock. This war left a deep, incurable wound in children’s hearts. Besides, there are thousands of children and teenagers among 20 thousand victims of the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict, the majority of whom is doomed to the diverse and problematic refugee life and the life of internally displaced persons.
Some years after the forcible exile from homes, i.e. before the establishment of camps for refugees and internally displaced families by the Azerbaijan government, the children from the places occupied by the Armenian troops had to live in tents, cellars, dug-outs, as well as in other shelters in insanitary conditions where they got various diseases, including incurable ones. As battles went on, hundreds of children remained orphans having lost one or both parents. Hundreds of children and teenagers were taken hostages during the conflict by Armenian armed gangsters or got missing. It is notable that 168 from the released 1391 captives and hostages are children (65 minor girls among them). According to the data available, 21 children are today among 753 citizens of Azerbaijan kept by Armenians and are considered captives and hostages. One of them – Mehsel Huseynov from Khojaly was only 3-month-old while taken hostage, and the oldest of them – Nusrat Jafarov and Mahira Allahverdiyeva (both from Khojaly) were 17- year-old. And who knows what unbelievable tortures, terrible sufferings and inhuman treatment children underwent and still undergo by Armenian hangmen?! How can a monstrous creature in human appearance having raped a four-year-old girl be named a human being? Scum-Armenians shamelessly practice transplantation of organs of Azerbaijani hostage children. The Armenian doctors from Hankandi removed a humeral bone of a 3-year-old Shovgu Aliyev, as a result of which the child remained an invalid forever. Doctor Aidoy Serobian made an injection of unknown purpose to newborn Arzu Hadjiyev – the child of Guldjamal Guliyeva taken hostage during the occupation of Kalbajar region. After that, the kid became an invalid and died in May, 2003.
Yes, and all this happens at the end of the XX – the beginning of the XXI centuries in front of the eyes of the world community!
2009 year declared as “The Year of Child” will certainly serve for the increase of attention and care towards Azerbaijani children and improvement of the conditions for their all-around development. But it is necessary to do so that no Azerbaijani children would remain in the hands of predatory Armenians, and the life of no child would be cut short by the hands of hangmen!
G.ZEYNALOGLU,
“Voice of Garabakh”
Samuel Weems
Armenia: secrets of a “christian” terrorist state
The Armenian Great Deception Series – Volume 1
Chapter three
Armenia founded as a dictatorship
Armenia didn’t become a republic by a vote of the people
Hovannissian observes that the country was “created as a revolutionary society to emancipate Turkish Armenia, it was neither structured as nor intended to evolve into a legal ruling organism». He goes on to add “the only semblance of administration in the districts around Yerevan remained a popular dictatorship headed by Aram Manukian, a hero of the resistance at Van in 1915 and the Yerevan in May 1918, and by Dro (short for Dresdomat Kanayan), a renowned partisan commander».
Dro, “a renowned partisan commander”? Dro was renowned for his success in attacks on unarmed and defenseless villages. Historical evidence also reflects that when Dro faced real soldiers, he was a failure. From day one of this new dictatorship, the Armenians had problems with its neighbors – Turkey, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. The Armenians claimed some 1 million of their people lived in the territories of Georgia and Azerbaijan – and Armenia coveted and demanded the land where they claimed their people were or had been five to eight hundred years in the past. While they didn’t have that many Armenians living inside the Ottoman lands, they nonetheless demanded a large amount of these lands as well.
There are places within both Azerbaijan and Georgia where pockets of Armenians live. The Armenian logic is that the Armenians living in these areas have the right to vote to leave each country and join Armenia. In the United States this tactic would be for Native Americans to be able to vote by themselves to leave the United States, take their lands upon which they live, and join Mexico. In the case of Georgia, the Armenians clamored continually that their people have the right to secede. The United States fought one such war – the Civil War – when the southern states attempted to secede from the nation. Both sides paid a terrible price.
Armenia didn’t become a republic by a vote of the people. Hovannissian talks about the startup of the new state: “Amidst this `formless chaos` Armenia laid her legislative foundations. Elections then being out of the question, the four political parties agreed to triple the membership of the National Council and transform it into a legislature”.
Hovannissian records: “Although the Republic was small in size, deprived of its best lands, and unable to provide for all its citizens, Armenian boundaries would not remain inflexible forever». Hovannissian quotes one of the leaders, Anetick Sahakian, who proclaimed: “I believe that our borders will expand with the iron force of life, with the defense of our just and indisputable rights to the (Turkish) occupied lands”.
Consider the following:
1. Hovannissian calls Armenia a “Republic” then says “elections”are “out of the question». In truth – the government was inactual fact a “dictatorship from before there was an Armenian state”.
2. The Armenians really wanted some one else’s land for free.
3. The first Armenian leaders called for “our just and indisputable rights to the (Turkish) occupied lands». This is deception because history clearly reveals twenty-nine other civilizations have an even greater claim to the land. The Armenian logic was and is nothing more than coveting thy neighbor’s land. History is very clear on this point: Armenia didn’t have Turkish land to be deprived of as Hovannissian wants the world to believe. Ottoman Turks possessed those lands for some eight hundred years. Before that these lands were possessed by the Byzantine Empire and before that the Romans controlled the land. There had been no such “Armenian lands” for perhaps as long back as three thousand years. The Armenians were not a majority population in the places they claimed as their “ancient” homeland. In fact, the Armenians in their tiny state area had only been there for perhaps seventy-five years when Hovannissian makes his claims.
(To be continued)
National Heroes of Azerbaijan
Fallen by the death of hero
having fought to the last bullet
The relatives and close people would celebrate his 50th anniversary this month…But they weren’t fated to. Although the lot of their family wasn’t too “sweet” from the very beginning. His parents were natives of Jabrayil region. He himself was born in Beylagan region. Subsequently, the family moved to Sumgait where his teenage and junior years passed.
Matlab Kamran oglu Guliyev was born on January 9, 1959. A great interest and bent for military service eventually brought Matlab to the military school after J.Nakhichevanski where he entered after getting incomplete secondary education in high school No.13 of Sumgait city. Soon he proved himself there as a talented and disciplined student and diligently carried out all the teachers’ orders working hard at self-improvement. Because his goal was to become a real military man. But, it a matter of fate again …Having graduated successfully from the school M.Guliyev couldn’t occupy himself with his favorite job. Having worked for a while in a poultry factory in Gilazi, and then in Jeyranbatan Trust of Motor Transport he left for the active service which he passed in the Ukraine land. After the demobilization, he entered the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute where the symbol “Honors student of studies” was awarded to him for good study. Having graduated from the Institute with a military rank of lieutenant Matlab started working as an instructor of primary military training in high school No.3 of Sumgait city.
In 1992 Matlab proceeded to the work in law-enforcement bodies. It was the time when Armenians’ marches with the claims about devolution of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia gradually grew into the undeclared war against Azerbaijan, and M.Guliyev well understood that in such a situation everyone needed to act hand in hand and with heart for the defence of the Motherland borders deeply realizing the importance of training of worthy military specialists. As a well-qualified officer he approached the question of education and training of young staff with great responsibility. He often visited front lines himself and became a spiritual and practical support to his fighting fellow countrymen. But the war did not calm down, on the contrary, it inflamed more and more.
On August 31, 1992 bloody battles were being waged in Agdam direction. The majority of strategically important heights were in the hands of Armenian armed gangsters. In such a moment it was necessary to raise the spirits of Azerbaijani soldiers and support them by the own example. Gradually M.Guliyev turned into one of the active warriors of the Azerbaijan Army bringing personal contribution to each military operation. During one of the fiercest battles Matlab, having already completely devoted himself to the battles for the Motherland, took a machine-gun and plunged into the battle. Tens of Armenian militants were struck by his bullets. Then he paused for a moment to change the magazine of his weapon. The Armenians thinking that he had no more ammunition assumed the offensive from every quarter. His battle friend – a captain died next to him at that moment. Having loaded the-machine gun lieutenant Guliyev started again to shoot at the enemy and killed still more armed gangsters. The Armenians concentrated all the forces to liquidate his weapon emplacement understanding that none of their militants will remain alive. Having fought to the last bullet, Matlab died as a hero…
He was married, and has a growing up son and a daughter. The hero is buried in the Martyrs’ Alley in Baku. On November 6, 1992, Matlab Kamran oglu Guliyev was posthumously conferred the honorary title of the National Hero of Azerbaijan by the decree of the President of Azerbaijan. The secondary school No. 3 of Sumgait city is named after the hero; his bust is installed here.
GADIR NASIROV, the “Voice of Karabakh”
Black and capital pages of Azerbaijan’s history
Grave crime with no punishment
Azerbaijani people have recently commemorated 19th anniversary of the tragic events of January 1990. This black, bloody, at the same time, capital page of our history has been written and spoken about a lot, as well as in our paper. Nevertheless, this huge tragedy is worth to be spoken and written about again and again.
Nineteen years ago, on the night from 19th to 20th of January 1990, with the command of the Kremlin, namely Mikhail Gorbachev himself, head of the USSR of the time, Soviet armies entered Baku, covered in popular disorders. Massive demonstrations by the population, caused by Armenia’s illegal actions aimed at the seizure of Nagorniy Karabakh, the historical part of Azerbaijan, as well as the deportation of every Azerbaijani from the Western Azerbaijan (present Armenia), warned official Moscow about the loss of Azerbaijan and final collapse of the Soviet empire, as the wave of the national liberation movement could easily spread to other republics within the dying Union. Not being able to untie the ‘Karabakh knot,’ tied by the Kremlin itself, its leadership chose another way. Through the help of special services in Baku, anti-Armenian provocations were organized in Sumgayit aimed at demonstrating the brutality of the national movement and, as if, Azerbaijanis’ pathological hatred towards Armenians. From January 12, Soviet armies with detachments of special services, as well as savage Armenian reservists recruited hurriedly from Krasnodar, Kuban and Saratov, started gathering close to Baku
The largest provocation took place on January 13, when Armenian massacre started in Baku, provoked by KGB USSR. It was not accidental that the Soviet army and militia did not interfere with the events at all, as if they had not noticed all that is happening. It was noticed that the Armenian massacre was led by white ‘Volga’ with Moscow (! – G.Z.) plate. On January 19, the contingent of the Soviet armed forces around Baku was more that 20,000 people; a big batch of heavy military machinery and artillery was moving towards the city.
On the night from 19th to 20th January, with no warning, all this power, with an order to ‘kill and smash,’ launched a punitive operation under a code name of ‘Thrust.’ Based on pre-planned script to create an informational blockade, the power unit of the republic’s TV centre was exploded by the special group of KGB USSR, ‘Alfa.’ The event was presented as a terror act as if organized by ‘Islamic fundamentalists.’
It is worth to one more time remind of the tragic and bloody consequences of unprecedented action of the country leadership against its own civil citizens. Units of the soviet forces entered the city from several directions, destroying everything on their way, firing chaotically at everything they see. Armed chasteners were firing at buses and trolleys, ambulances, windows of apartment buildings and hospitals, crowds of unarmed population. By the next morning, still there were corps, smashed by tanks and armoured troop carriers.
At the end of the punitive operation, 170 died (131 were killed during the slaughter, 39 from injuries – G.Z.), 744 were injured, 841 were arrested, several tens of citizens were missing. By the way, rumours say there were cases when militaries threw dead bodies into the sea, as well as fire made of tires around the airport. If not, where did people disappear? The most shocking is that all of these people were civilians: children, women, the elderly, and the youth. Most of the victims, unaware of the entrance of troops into the city, were going somewhere for their professional and/or personal business. Death overtook seven citizens in their apartments, while 19 individuals were killed very close to their houses. Seventy of the killed were married (159 children were left parentless), seven of the victims were juveniles. The national composition of the slaughtered was diverse: besides Azerbaijanis, there were 6 Russians, 3 Jews, 3 Tatars. On that fatal night, five employees of internal affairs and two ambulance men were killed while on service. People were shot with particular cruelty and from a close distance. For instance, U. Meerovich got 21 bullets, D. Khanmamedov got more than 10, R. Rustamov got 23. People were killed with bayonet. Among the killed there was a completely blind B. Yefimtsev. Soldiers used shells of Kalashnikov with the calibre of 5.45 with the biased focus (facts from the report by military expert of the ‘Shield’ organization – G.Z.).
During the bloody operation, military servants destroyed and burned 200 houses and apartments; 80 cars, as well as ambulances, were crushed; according to the estimation of those times, the value of government and private property was 5,637,286 roubles.
The bullets of the ‘native army’ killed innocent citizens in Neftchala and Lenkoran as well, where there was no state of emergency.
It is worth to mention that entering troops into Baku and announcing state of emergency in the city without a consent of the legislative body of the republic was a blunt violation of the Constitution of the USSR (Art.119), of the Constitution of Azerbaijani SSR (Art.71), and of the International pact on ‘civil and political law’ (1966, Art.1). The sovereign rights of the republic were violated. The committee of inquiry investigating the case proved that militants employed some prohibited types of weaponry, committed anti-humanity crimes, which should be classified as war crimes according to the Decree by the International Military tribunal, the Geneva Conventions on protection of war victims (1949), their complementing Protocols I and II (1977), and the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. In fact, all international conventions on human rights, including Common declaration on human rights (1948), Final act of the Conference on security and cooperation in Europe (1975), the Concluding document of Vena meeting of OSCE (1989), Declaration on woman and child protection in emergencies and during armed conflicts (1974), Convention on children rights (1989), as well as existing conventions regulating prosecution of war, were violated.
All Azerbaijani society knows the names of leaders of the former USSR, who directly sanctioned and carried out the bloody slaughter in Baku and in other cities of Azerbaijan. First of all, Mikhail Gorbachev, Yevgeniy Primakov, Dmitriy Yazov, Vadim Bakatin, Aleksandr Lebed were among them. Paradoxically none of these executors of such a brutal crime appeared in court and were not punished properly. Shockingly, after such a crime, M.Gorbachev received the Nobel prize for peace (?! – G.Z.).
But of course, it does not make sense. Eventually, everybody, whose hands are in blood of innocent people, will have to answer for what they have committed. Criminals against people cannot remain unpunished. Undoubtedly! They will answer before the justice, but most importantly – in the Hereafter.
It is also shocking that such an anti-humanity, anti-democratic crime, planned beforehand, accompanied by brute and massive violation of human rights, has been out of the attention of the world community and international organizations. It is outrageous and incomprehensible!
G.ZEYNALOGHLU
‘Voice of Karabakh’
The 2008 war year
Twenty years ago the Armenian notorious “movement” for seizure from Azerbaijan its’ an integrated historical part – Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) began. During 16 years of this term it has been committed open aggression by Armenia against Azerbaijan. From 1992 to 1993 there were active hostilities resulted in the occupation of over 20 per cent of Azerbaijani territories.
On basis of the so-called Bishkek pact, signed in May, 1992 between two opposed parties, beginning from the said time, a cease-fire regime as if exists. Frankly speaking for all past period this regime has not been fully observed even a month. The skirmishes, attempted attacks and other diversionary actions by Armenian party have been never stopped. Only there was not waged an active war. Annually we are trying to inform our readers about situation in last year. This time conforming to the tradition we’ll talk of 2008.
Taking into consideration that a cease-fire regime persists though formally, last year could say has been quiet war. Thus, under results of monitoring held by APA News-Agency, for 14 years of cease-fire regime Armenian armed forces violated the said regime most of all in 2008. Last year the cease-fire regime was broken by Armenian armed forces for 1250 times that are by 700 facts more than in 2007.
Last year cease-fire regime most of all has been violated in Aghdam (228 cases), Terter (211), Gazakh (175), Khojavend (141), Goranboy (140), Fizuli (134) and Tovuz (124) regions. As in previous years, enemy forces fired also at positions of Azerbaijan’s Armed Forces and settlements along the lines of Gedebey and Jabrayil, and also Dashkesen regions. In last year Azerbaijani military were killed especially in battles in the area of Karabakh front along the lines of Aghdam, Terter, Khojavend and Fizuli regions.
Most of all the following settlements situated at state border between Azerbaijan and Armenia were subjected to firing by Armenian forces – they are: the villages Kokha Nebi, Aghdam and Alibeyli in Tovuz region; Mezem, Gyzyl Hajily and Bala Jafarly in Gazakh region; along the Karabakh fron-line – the villages Ashaghy Abulrahmanly, Garakhanbeyli and Alkhanly of Fizuli region, Yusifjanly in Aghdam region, Gapanly, Geyarkh, Borsunlu in Terter region and Tapgaragoyunlu of Goranboy region.
It is appropriate mention that the highest activity of Armenian armed forces has been fixed in first decade of last March. Only from 3 to 4 March along the lines of Goranboy and Terter regions throughout over 36 hours there were intensive battles. During these battles the Armenians used mortars, high defense technology.
In months June, July and August the subdivisions of Armenian army became more intense along the lines of Goranboy, Terter and Aghdam regions, in October and November – Fizuli and Khojavend regions situated in the south of front-line.
In autumn precisely from September to October of 2008 enemy forces became more intense mainly in the north of front-line – in territory of Gazakh and Tovuz regions along the Armenian-Azerbaijanian frontier. During these months Gazakh region differed in common figures of the breach of cease-fire regime. It is appropriate mentions that in addition to Nagorno-Karabakh and seven regions adjacent to it, currently 9 villages of Gazakh region are under the occupation of Armenian Armed Forces. Armenian armed forces fire on positions of Azerbaijan’s Armed Forces from the direction of territory of these and other occupied lands of Azerbaijan as well as from the direction of Idjevan, Berd and Tavush regions, Armenia.
The casualty rate among the military and also civilians gives once more evidence of high strained situation along the front-line of opposed parties in 2008. As it became known under the monitoring results, last year 18 soldiers of Azerbaijani Army became shehids in battles with enemy forces. They are – Bahruz Madat oghlu Khatami, Orkhan Farhad oghlu Shamilov, Ismayil Afgan oghlu Aghamammadov, Movlud Habib oghlu Guchiyev, Yusif Oruj oghlu Gasymov, Chinar Muraddin oghlu Aliyev, Ramin Ismayil oghlu Ismayilov, Nemat Habib oghlu Dusayev, Bahruz Arzu oghlu Ismayilov, Aslan Eldar oghlu Aliyev, Uzeyir Elshad oghlu Khasiyev, Farid Alasger oghlu Humbatov, Shahriyar Salameddin oghlu Balishov, Vahid Zahid oghlu Aghalarov, Arzuman Ramiz oghlu Gurbanov, Jeyhun Bahaddin oghlu Safarov, Alipasha Safaly oghlu Aliyev, Arif Gulagha oghlu Aliyev. In addition, tens of soldiers were wounded.
Armenian armed forces did not even refrain from firing on civilians living in front-line settlements. Thus, there were killed the inhabitants of Aghdam region Niyameddin Ismayilov, Etibar Mikayilov, and wounded Mashallah and Muzaffar Ismayilov, inhabitants of Tapgaragoyunlu village of Goranboy region Rahman Aliyev, Miralam Heydarov, Rovshan Aldjanov, etc.
Furthermore, mine explosion along the front-line, and also in military units situated not far off front-line there were military and civilian casualties among Azerbaijanis. Reportedly relevant structures, in 2008, 13 mine explosions resulted in casualty of 16 persons, including 14 civilians (of them 2 children) and 2 military, and one citizen was killed. The mines and ammunitions were exploded mainly in territory of Aghdam, Fizuli, Terter and Khojavend region.
It is appropriate mention that from beginning of Armenian-Azerbaijanian conflict over 2,000 Azerbaijanis suffered from mine explosions, including 475 persons died. Can it be called cease-fire regime?
G.JABRAYILLI,
“Voice of Karabakh”
Ziyad Samedzadeh: “The standard of living in NKAO before the Armenian- Azerbaijani conflict was higher than an average across Azerbaijan”
Day.Az interview with academician Ziyad Samedzade, chairman of the standing economic commission of Milli Medjlis, vice president of the International Economists Union.
– As it is known, during the first stages, Armenian nationalists, striving to strain the situation to its limits, to incline the public opinion to their own side, to gain sympathy towards themselves, staked mainly on the alleged claim that the level of social-economic growth in NKAO (Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast – ed.) was much lower than overall in the republic because of a biased policy of Azerbaijani leadership. As if it was this fact that caused the indignation of Armenian population, loss of their patience, and became the detonator of the events. Who was the founder of this thesis?
– You are absolutely right. It was speculations and deceitful statements of Armenian nationalists about the alleged law level of social-economic growth of NKAO which became one of the main components of misinformation about real reasons behind Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, which the Armenian side presented to the world community.
The apologist of the mentioned thesis was academician A. Agabegian. He also claimed that the economy of NKAO was more interrelated with the economy of Armenia than with that of Azerbaijan. However, actually, the economy of NKAO was an organic part of the national economy of Azerbaijan and was actively involved in the distribution of labor within the republic. Its stable functioning significantly depended on mutual feedback to and from other economic regions of the republic.
It is most interesting that a number of books and other publications, where he himself testified the achievements of NKAO within Azerbaijan, are still preserved. Naturally, at the moment of fit of nationalism and pondering over theses, through the voicing of which the world ‘armenianship’ tried to ground their tearing our historical lands in Nagorno Karabakh apart from Azerbaijan, the academician A. Agabegian got fit of amnesia.
It is appropriate to cite another typical example related to it, which evidences that the events in Nagorno Karabakh were not spontaneous. They were thoroughly and largely prepared by the world armenianship. Thus, for years high instances of the USSR had received from NKAO letters, citizens’ appellations, incited by the organizers and the inspirers of a grandiose provocation to come.
One of such messages containing evidently distorted information and conjectures reached CC CPSU (Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – ed.) in spring 1986, i.e. two years before the beginning of the events in NKAO. I was charged to review this petition and to prepare a corresponding response based on a thorough analysis. We informed the Center that the collective letter from NKAO on alleged lack of attention to its social-economic and cultural development by some administrators at ministries and agencies of the republic was biased and false from the beginning to the end. It is confirmed by, at least, the fact that the test showed out of 216 signatures on the letter, only 21 belonged to people living on the territory of NKAO. Moreover, during a conversation, they all flatly denied their involvement in the petition. The rest had either left the oblast and the republic long before, or passed away. These facts prove the inclination of Armenian nationalists to the distortion of the reality, falsifications and their ability to do anything to achieve their goal, as well as to state that milk is black…
– What was the real social-economic situation in NKAO before the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
– Let me speak with numbers of the analysis I conducted then as the head of economic department of CC CP Azerbaijan, in February through March, because of a massive campaign, led by Armenian politicians. They claimed that the cause of the conflict in NKAO was a serious backlog in social-economic sphere of the oblast compared to the level of growth in the rest of Azerbaijan.
So, by 1986, NKAO assessed the republic’s average increase rate at industrial production: while in the republic the overall rate was 178.7%, in NKAO it was 183%. In terms of per capita volume of industrial production, NKAO was in the lead among other regions of the republic. The coverage of families with stationary phones was 42% in NKAO, while across Azerbaijan, in overall, it was 31.1%. In 1986, in NKAO, monetary per capita income went above 1113.5 roubles, which was 97.8 roubles more than the overall monetary income in Azerbaijan, and 170.4 roubles more than that in Nakhichevan ASSR. By 1987, lodging provision per resident of NKAO was 14.6 sq. meters, whereas in the republic the overall indicator was 10.9 sq. m.
All these figures eloquently testify: the standard of living in NKAO before the Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan was higher than the average across Azerbaijan.
Now, let’s see the present view: the level of the growth of Nagorniy Karabakh, occupied by Armenia and recognized by no one, cannot be compared even with the least developed region of Azerbaijan. It is the price of Armenia’s occupation of Nagornoiy Karabakh; it is the price of ominous policy of Armenian nationalist separatists.
– And the last question, completing the theme of comparison. So, how did Armenians live in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis live in Armenia before Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan?
– I will again resort to statistics – the best judge in any argument. We will start with the comparison of Armenian population, who lived in Baku, and Azerbaijani population, who lived in Erevan. A very interesting tendency comes into sight.
The percentage of Armenians lived in Baku through the century did not change. Thus, if in 1897 the percentage of Armenians in Baku was 17.1%, in 1926 it was 18%, in 1959 – 17.2%, and in 1979 – 14.1%. At this moment it is worth to note that only in 1970 the percentage of Azerbaijanis, who lived in Baku prevailed the percentage of representatives of ‘other nationalities.’ In 1970, Azerbaijanis were 46.3% of Baku residents, whereas representatives of other nationalities, except Armenians, were 37.3% of the population of the capital. In the last census of enumeration at the USSR in 1979, the situation changed to the following: 55.7% of Baku population was Azerbaijanis, 14.1% was Armenians, and 30.2% was representatives of other nationalities.
Now, let us see what was happening in Erevan. The complete armenization of Erevan was taking place. Thus, in 1897, 43.1% Armenians, 42.8% Azerbaijanis, and 14.1% representatives of other nationalities lived in Erevan. However, in 1926, 89.5% Armenians, 7.8%Azerbaijanis lived in Erevan. In 1959, the situation got even more complicated, 92.2% Armenians and only .6% Azerbaijanis were living in Erevan. Finally, in 1979, 95.8% Armenians, .2% Azerbaijanis, and 4% of representatives of ‘other nationalities’ lived in Armenia.
These numbers testify more eloquently than any analytical material how much tolerant and international is the Azerbaijani nation and how intolerant and egoistical is the Armenian nation. In terms of comparative analysis of the social status of Azerbaijanis, who lived in Armenia, and of Armenians, who lived in Azerbaijan, naked numbers respond to all questions. Thus, by 1979, in Azerbaijan, Armenians constituted 9% of the heads of state administration, party and social organizations, enterprises and their structural subdivisions, while in Armenia, such percentage among Azerbaijanis was 2.1%.
In addition, throughout Azerbaijan, in such prestigious fields as engineering and medicine, Armenians constituted 11 and 9.5% of employees respectively, while in Armenia the percentage of Azerbaijanis in these fields was only .5 and 1.5% respectively. You can draw conclusions from these numbers yourselves.
Akbar HASANOV
Armenian “syndrome of misappropriation” progresses
Nowadays a small number of people in the world may not be aware of the most “holy” (of course, for themselves only) intend, goal, objective and specific feature of Armenians: misappropriate another’s land, history, culture, tradition and in general all belongings. This is their innate and eternal syndrome.
Roots of this chronic Armenian syndrome go to the deeps of the history, id est direct to the period of first appearance of the mentioned nationality in the world. This incurable disease is inborn national vice. As is known, fate decrees that Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis have been the most advantageous targets for misappropriation, privatization and stealing by these God’s creatures. Owing to this innate Armenian ailment, during the centuries Azerbaijan has lost a lot.
Suffice it to remind that in the beginning of XVIII century the territory of Azerbaijan was 410 thousand square kilometers. In the period of establishment of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, i.e. in 1918-1920 its territory was limited to 114 square kilometers; together with Russia and Iran, Armenians also got considerable piece of Azerbaijani lands – initially 9 thousand square kilometers, on which the current Armenia was founded, thereupon Zangezur, etc. Subsequently, together with given lands, they owned all natural resources procured in these lands. However it was not enough for insatiable Armenians.
In the beginning of XX century Armenians attempted to seize another piece of Azerbaijani territory – Nagorno-Karabakh, but they failed. Their repeated attempt was in the 80s of the last century, but when they met resistance, chose the way of separatism, terror and war, which of results are known to the whole world: Armenia occupied and currently takes under occupation 20% of the territory of Azerbaijan, for almost 25 years violates rights of million Azerbaijani refugees and internally displaced persons, impedes their return to native lands, destroyed about 900 settlements, ransacked and misappropriated all private and public riches in these territories. Furthermore, in order to obliterate historical traces all Azerbaijan-owned riches and in the future to claim that these territories belonged to them, Armenians intentionally and systematically destroy everything, down to the historical and cultural monuments.
Presently one of the most important targets of armenization is Shusha – historical Azerbaijani town, which was not only its cultural centre, but also so called conservatory of the East. As recently Information Agency APA has informed, the Government of Armenia spends 118 thousand USD for armenization of Shusha, from donations of Russia, USA, Iran, France and other countries for 2009.
The indicated amount will be directed to the Fund of Shusha, which has already started agitation campaign in Shusha, the Azerbaijani town, occupied by Armenia. The aim of this campaign is to spread misinformation that, more than 220 public, cultural and historical buildings, as well as historic-scientific houses, more than 500 cultural, historical and architectural monuments of the town built in XVII-X|IX centuries belongs to Armenians.
This considerable amount of money will be spend for edition of the book, including
photographs and maps; publication of the book titled “Shusha and Artsakh (Armenians even armeniazied the name of Nagorno-Karabakh – G.A.) in XII-XIX centuries ”; research of the history of Karabakh and Shusha in the state archives of Armenia; investigation of the cave situated near to the town; publication of the first volume of the book, which will consist of selected works of Armenian authors dedicated to the theme – “Struggle for Karabakh”; establishment of Cultural Centre which will study “Culture of Shusha”; acquisition of materials regarding Shusha from the state archives of Moscow and St. Petersburg; as well as preparation of working plan of cultural events for the next year.
Correspondent of the Organization for Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments in the Occupied Territories of Azerbaijan said to the information agency that Armenians aim at the conversion of Shusha to the religious and cultural capital of Armenians. For achieving the mentioned goal they use all possible and impossible means, even unpermitted ways of agitation and propaganda, fill in foreign libraries with books of Armenian authors full of provocation and deceit.
Another strategic target for armenization by Armenians is Lachin, as the only road connecting Armenia and Nagorn-Karabakh passes from this town. They put ceaseless effort to this process and in the negotiations for regulation of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan they always consciously lay down condition not to return Lachin back to Azerbaijan.
During last fifteen years the official Yerevan carries out unlawful settlement of town and region of Lachin, already re-naming these places subsequently Kashatagh and Berdzor. The Armenian Government takes all measures, even gives financial aid for keeping the populated people in the region. For achieving these goals, “Software Development Coalition of Kashatagh (Lachin)- Artsakh” and other small enterprises have been established in the region with assistance of organizations from USA, France and Russia. Two churches have been built in the town, although there are not worshipers, Armenians falsify old Albanian churches and other historical monuments existing in this region.
Similar unlawful and inhuman actions are carried out by Armenians in the whole occupied territories of Azerbaijan.
Yes, Armenian syndrome of “misappropriation” progresses. However international organizations which are responsible for the regulation of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan very quietly and with inconceivable indifference observe these unlawful activities taking place in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan…
G.AHMEDAGALY,
“Voice of Karabakh”
Russia continues arming Armenia!?
It becomes obvious that Russia – one of the leading countries of the world, historical neighbour of Azerbaijan and co chair of the OSCE Minsk Group involved in the regulation of Armenian Azerbaijani conflict has a biased attitude towards Armenia.
This is confirmed by the fact discussed below.
The Azerbaijani public became aware of the list of ammunition transferred to Armenia form the Russian military base N. 102 located Goumri, Armenia. The ammunition listed below was given to Armenia with the signature of the deputy commander of the Northern Caucasus Command, Lieutenant General Vyacheslav Golovchenko. According to the estimates the approximate worth of the ammunition is 800 million USD. For comparison it is worth to mention that the military budget of Armenia for 2008 was 370 million USD.
The list contains 21 “T-72” tanks, 27 “ВMP-2”, 12 “BTR 70/80” 5 BREM-2 (on BMP-1 base), 4 units of “ZSU 23-4 Shilka” missiles, “Strela” missiles, 875 boxes of “F-1”, RGD-5 grenades, 1050 boxes of “RQK -3/3 EM” anti-tank grenades, 7897 units of different types of ammunition (122mm missiles, 152mm 2S3, 122mm D-3 and etc), 120 unit of grenade 40mm GP-25 grenade launchers, 2846 units of 45 mm AK-74, AKC-74 machine guns, 62 mm AKM, AKMS, 103 NB-8 noctovisors, TNT bombs, mines (TM 62 M/P, OZM-72 PMN), BM-37 mine launchers, 9 “Grad ” type missiles, 10 SAU (self propelled missile launcher) of 152 mm “Akasiya” (on the T-55 base), “Qvozdika (on MT LBU)”, 5 units of 100 mm high angle guns of MT-12r “Rapira”, 210 units “Cube” missiles and other types of heavy ammunition. It came to be known that in addition to the above mentioned, Russia is intending to give anti-aircraft guns of “S-125” and “Pechora”.
Immediately after the information was publicised, the Ambassador of Russian Federation to Azerbaijan, Mr. Vasiliy Istratov was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to comment on the credibility and to express the official position about it. Few days later, the Ambassador sent the official position of his country that apparently did not satisfy the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. The next response was received after 9 days (?! – G.N.) where Russia was trying to justify itself and hide the truth by bringing different reasons. Here are questions that make one to doubt the veracity of it.
First, if nothing happened why it would take Russia so long to respond? The second, why would Sergei Lavrov, Russian MFA and Russian co chair of OSCE MG, Yuriy Merzlyakov and member of Russian Duma Sergei Markov in their interviews to Azerbaijani mass media try to justify it by referring to the agreement on military and political cooperation between Russia and Armenia. Initially the fact of transfer of Russian ammunition to Armenia was confirmed by the head of the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defence, Alexander Petrunin. But V. Istratov’s statement: “The response relates only to the submitted list and it does not mean that Russian Federation has never sold or passed Russian weapons to Armenia” also says a lot. Thirdly, this is not the single fact of passing armament and ammunition to Armenia from Russia. It is known, that in 1996 the later has gratuitously transferred armament and ammunition in the amount of 1 billion US dollars, that then also had been insistently denied by Russian side. But later Russia simply had to confess this fact. Since 2000 Armenia has been suppllied by the Closed Joint Stock Company “Radiotechkomplekt” with military purposed radio electronic equipment etc. Fourthly, this fact assessed in Russian reply note as a “false” and “anti Russian disinformation” was published not only by Azerbaijani mass media. Georgian newspaper Georgian Times published the list of armament, ammunition, warlike equipment and articles of war passed by Russian Federation to Armenia Ministry of Defence.
The newspaper claims that he she has received the information from sources well acquainted with military issues. The paper has analysed that 21 tanks means two tank companies, 27 BMPs are 2 motorized infantry battalions, 12 BTR is a one fully armed infantry unit, 10 SAU (self propelled missile launcher) of 152 mm “Akasiya” (on the T-55 base), “Qvozdika (on MT LBU)” are two artillery battalions, 9 BM -21 “Grad” missiles compose a battalion of jet action attack, 4 anti-aircraft missiles “Buk” and “Shilka” 23-4 are 2 anti aircraft battalions with mobile anti jet systems of “Strela-2” and “Strela 2M” etc. This means, gentlemen, that there is not way to wriggle out.
Russia is arming the occupant Armenia. By doing this Russia dissolves the image of a neutral mediator in Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict co chairing OSCE MG and acts as a party, violates the norms of international law and UN SC resolutions, Moscow Declaration that prohibit the sale of ammunition to the countries involved in conflict. Russia stimulates the Armenian aggression and strengthens it positions on the occupied Azerbaijani territories.
Let, Russia answer whether Azerbaijan can trust them?
Gadir NASIROV,
“Voice of Karabakh”
The powerless UN
Who needs it?
The United Nations is considered to be the strongest international organisation of the modern world. The Charter of United Nations (UN) empowers him to act as a “referee” of the world and all conflicts are supposed to find a fair resolution within its walls.
Article 1 of the first chapter of the UN Charter states that the purposes of the United Nations are “To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace”
Is the UN actually capable of fulfilling this purpose?
I do not know if anybody of the elder generation remembers a conflict when UN had brought peace, but I personally with my not a short life experience do not remember a single case.
I remember how America was exterminating Vietnamese for years and France Algerians, when UN could not do anything to stop the blood shed. It is not even necessary to look into the far past. Look how US ploughed Afghanistan trying to neutralise Usama Ben Laden or destroyed Iraq for the so called reason of ending the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and preventing Iraq to develop a nuclear weapon.
Thousands of civilians died in these countries including women and children. And what?
Nothing happened to Usama Ben Laden and no nuclear weapon was found in Iraq. Saddam Hussein, the main enemy if George Bush was rendered harmless. No influence of the UN was really felt on the situation.
In early 90’s Armenia started an undeclared war with newly independent Azerbaijan with purpose of establishment of the so called “great Armenia”. More than 20 thousand people died resulting a severe humanitarian catastrophe. The UN Security Council adopted 4 Resolution (822, 853, 874 and 884) urging Armenian forces to stop the aggression and remove the forces from the occupied Azerbaijani territories. Armenia simply ignored the resolution and still continues hold the territories under its occupation and the resolution remained being nothing more than a scrap. The powerless UN could not even have a stern look at the occupant. The severe outcomes of the aggression of one UN member country towards another are still there.
What about the latest events in the Middle East?
The 60 years Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached its apogee at the end of 2008 and early 2009.
Under the pretext of neutralising HAMAS, Israel with the full support of the US and silent observation of France and Russia, ruthlessly bombed the Gaza sector ignoring the UN statements and even the visit of the UN Secretary general, Ban Ki -moon to the region.
In 2-3 dozens of days more than 1500 civilans including 400 children were killed, hundreds of thousands of people wounded and uprooted. It even reached the point when Israel bombed the UN office, not mentioning schools and hospitals in Gaza. UN could not even come up with a slightest scolding on Israel. The tense situation still continues there.
During years of its long existence UN recommended itself to be a powerless, weak and not respected institution.
Then willy-nilly arise such a question: who then needs such an international organisation?
Separatists try to enlarge their scope of activities
We periodically inform our newspaper readers about Armenian separatist’s activities aimed at further misappropriation of occupied Azerbaijani territories. .
New facts recently came to be known evidencing the enlargement of the scope of Armenian activities. Thus, reportedly independent e-mass media “The Caucasian knot”, the Armenian authorities and