Negotiations did not resolve the Karabakh problem - participant of the round table

Azerbaijan must abandon the negotiating process within the OSCE Minsk Group, as this process is aimed at delaying the problem rather than solving it. The only way to liberate the occupied territories of Azerbaijan is the military. This was the leitmotif of the round table, held August 8 by the NGO “Organization of cultural and historical monuments in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan”.

According to the head of this NGO Faig Ismayilov, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs conserveg the situation around the conflict and create conditions for the recognition of the so-called Nagorno-Karabakh as "subject of international law."

In terms of the cease-fire the occupants feel comfortable in the occupied territories and seek to consolidate the results of aggression.

Thus, in the Nagorno-Karabakh and Lachin measures are conducted to promote social and economic infrastructure, and a considerable part of all this is through financial assistance from the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group.

Delay in settlement dulls the need to return those lands. Among the displaced people a new generation grows up that has never lived in these territories.

Participants agreed that all the resources of the country and public opinion must be mobilized to prepare for the liberation of the occupied territories. On the front lines of Azerbaijan should not give rest to the enemy and the world must feel that the people of Azerbaijan will never reconcile with the loss of their territories.

Roundtable participants also criticized the weak military-patriotic work in Azerbaijan. Along major highways, and indeed anywhere else in the crowded places there are no prominent patriotic posters, said PhD on History, Vagif Abushov.

The round table was also informed that the NGO "Organization of cultural and historical monuments in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" has prepared a draft law "On the situation in the occupied territories." This document regulates the issues related to the protection of sovereign rights in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, a ban on visits to that area without permission from the authorities of the country, the use of international legal mechanisms to protect the cultural heritage of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani place names. Ismailov said that in September, the Council will organize public discussions of the document.

The NGO is also preparing a case to the European Court of Human Rights on the misappropriation of the works of art created by a master of carving in stone, a resident of the village of the Lachin district Rahim Myrick Murtuzaev. So, he created bas-reliefs of the literary character Farhad and commander Javanshir, which remained in the master’s yard during the occupation. Roundtable participants were shown a copy of the regional newspaper "Lachin" in 1988, in which were shown pictures of the bas-reliefs.

Now the invaders show these works to foreigners as objects of Armenian art. The complaint will be sent to Strasbourg in the coming days. -06C-