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By Mahammad Agamirzayev

Today Azerbaijan’s society, economy, democracy and many other aspects have developed dynamically much more than they have ever been.

The fact, our independency is getting stronger with every achieved success acknowledged by international community.

Delighted with our development, a number of countries support us but there are others which are envy trying to create barriers in our way. However, these barriers don’t endure against our development, triumphed by the union of Azerbaijan nation.

All these are seen not only by Azerbaijani citizens, but also civil societies of many different countries.

I have come up with this conclusion after having discussions with people of different age groups, backgrounds and nationalities, lecturers, and some politicians, since the start of my overseas studies.

I am currently studying at the University of Birmingham. My meetings and a series of discussions with Galina Yemelianova, citizen of the United Kingdom and Professor at University of Birmingham made me interested in political world.

Dr. Yemelianova works in the “Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies”, at the University of Birmingham. In the year 1985 Yemelianova got a PhD in Middle Eastern History, from the Institute of Asian and African Studies, at the Moscow State University.

Recently, public union “Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh Region”, Council of the ”State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan”, and the Humboldt University of Germany have begun to cooperate with the “Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies” of the University of Birmingham, regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict.

The only reason why Azerbaijan is not feeling exhilaration is that our land, Karabakh, is presently occupied by the Armenian invaders.

This was our theme of discussion at my first meeting with Professor Yemelianova. Her thorough knowledge of both, Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis, as well as Armenia and Armenians, has led her to sustain a fair judgment.

During the course of the conversation, I also discovered that, because of her caring attitude towards Azerbaijan, in our current Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Dr. Yemelianova was facing regular pressures from the Armenian Diaspora.

Dr. Yemelianova has played a key role in organization of numerous trainings and conferences together with agencies which have interest in the peace in the Caucasian region.

On February 17, 2015, at an invitation of Dr. Yemelianova, I attended a conference titled “The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Current Discourses and Future Perspectives” organized by the University of Birmingham Research Group on the Caucasus and Central Asia, the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, POLSIS, College of Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Department of War Studies of King’s College London.

The theme of the first session of the conference was “Regional Perspectives”, which was followed by discussion on the “Local and International Discourses”. Following the speeches given by Ambassador Jacques Faure, the ex- co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group and by Amanda Paul, from the European Policy Centre (Brussels), the participants and speakers had debate on relative issues.

During my individual discussions with the speakers, I talked about the political and the economic development of Azerbaijan, the “Qaradagli” massacre and the “Khojaly” genocide. My speech positively affected them and it was visible from their facial mimic and attitude towards me.

In my point of view, it is now the right time to declare an ideological-nationwide war for freedom of Karabakh. Consequently, each of us must give a daily, weekly, monthly report and analyze it: How many “shots were fired”..., what was stated by him/her to the world concerning this issue?

At this point, I think it is worth noting a suggestion of mine, which is including the question of “What ideological action have you done for the sake of Azerbaijan, Karabakh?” to a seminar held by “The State Students Admission Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan”.

It would be enough to have a dramatic increase of world awareness on the truth of Karabakh conflict and boost-up the resolution progression of this dispute if each of us spends at least an hour each day on this campaign via the means of Information Technology, for the sake of integrity and freedom of the motherland-Azerbaijan. This would be a sign of solidarity of Azerbaijanis against the aggressor nation and its mendacious supporters.

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