T. Zulfugarov: Baku should raise the issue of self-determination of Azerbaijanis in Armenia
Baku / 03.03.20 / Turan: The meeting between the President of Azerbaijan I. Aliyev and the Prime Minister of Armenia N. Pashinyan in Munich on February 16, 2020 was evaluated in terms of protecting the national interests of the two leaders.
However, the main thing that happened in Munich is not commented - Azerbaijan has changed its position,” said Tofig Zulfugarov, ex-Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan.
On his Facebook page, he writes that in Munich, the President of Azerbaijan stated that the principle of self-determination of peoples and nations is not applicable to the occupied territories. Modern international law recognizes two types of self-determination of peoples and nations:
The realization of the people right to self-determination, as a rule, through a plebiscite, and the creation of their own independent state and the so-called internal self-determination of the nation to create their own autonomy within the state.
Throughout the entire period of the conflict, the compromise position of the Azerbaijani side was declared as a willingness to provide a high form of self-government within the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, the Armenian side did not consider the same possibility of hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis expelled from Armenia.
However, after Armenia rejected the Madrid principles and the statements “Karabakh Armenia and the Point” and “We do not intend to discuss the liberation of any territories”, it became clear that the proposal to the Armenians to create autonomy on the territory of Azerbaijan was rejected.
“Therefore, the statement of the President of Azerbaijan on the inadmissibility of applying the principle of self-determination of peoples and nations for Armenians in our country should be clearly understood as a response to Pashinyan’s statement about his desire to annex, that is, annex the occupied territories of Azerbaijan to Armenia,” Zulfugarov told Turan.
Asked what step should Baku take in this situation, the ex-minister said that if Pashinyan insists on the self-determination of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, then the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry should negotiate the application of the same principle in a mirror version, that is, raise the issue of self-determination of Azerbaijanis in Armenia - former citizens of this country. -0-
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