Puppet Nagorno-Karabakh regime disguises occupation, aggression
By Mushvig Mehdiyev
The principle of the right to self-determination is oppressed in the occupied Azerbaijani territories by the puppet regime, official at the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said.
Baku believes the principle of self-determination cannot be expressed through occupation, aggression and ethnic cleansing.
"As a result of the Armenian occupation, more than 1 million Azerbaijanis have been ethnically cleansed, deprived of their fundamental rights and freedoms. Azerbaijani lands faced one of the biggest humanitarian disasters since World War II," spokesman for the ministry, Hikmet Hajiyev said.
Yerevan supports both politically and financially the separatist regime in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia's rulers even encourage the puppet Karabakh regime to hold fictitious elections and to attend international events.
Hajiyev stressed the fallacious regime established by Armenia in the occupied Azerbaijani lands serves only to disguise Yerevan's occupation and aggression against Azerbaijan.
"The separatist regime severely exploits the principle of self-determination," he said commenting on Armenian media's report on the fictitious regime’s involvement in European affairs.
On April 17, the European Free Alliance party, a pan-European
political union, voted in favor of integrating the so-called
"Democratic Party of Artsakh" into its ranks.
Hajiyev slammed the European Free Alliance, who stands to protect
people's rights and freedoms, for entering into a relationship with
a regime that was created as a result of an aggression, occupation
and bloody ethnic cleansing.
"The European Free Alliance flies in the face of its own principles," Hajiyev said. "Such a move is an obvious disrespect of the rights of one million internally displaced persons and refugees in Azerbaijan.”
Hajiyev called on the EFA to renounce unequivocally its ties with the separatist regime in Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Since the occupied territories are abused and exploited for arms, drugs, human trafficking and training for terrorists, the EFA should demonstrate its commitment to human values, and withdraw its cooperation with separatists," he concluded.
As a result of Armenia's armed invasion of Azerbaijan's legal territory, the two neighboring countries have remained locked in a bitter territorial dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Armenia-backed separatists seized from Azerbaijan in a bloody war in the early 1990s.
Despite Baku's best efforts, peace in the occupied lands remains a mirage in the distance as Armenia refuses to comply with international law.
Baku proposed a Great Peace Agreement project to work jointly on the conflict's settlement. Yerevan refused of course to seize such peace opportunity, preferring instead to support the occupation.
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