Baku must take a number of urgent steps at diplomatic and political levels due to Russias military aggression against Georgia. First of all the Foreign Ministry must make a statement assessing Russias actions, because it is aggression against the country which is trying to restore its territorial integrity and to bring order to its territory. The open intervention made by Russia is accompanied with all kinds of weapons and troops. The excessive use of force testifies that the Kremlin has prepared for this operation for long, and this intervention is to threaten and punish. In January 1990 Azerbaijan was in the same situation, but then we were part of the USSR; now we are a sovereign state, therefore the military crimes of Moscow are heavier than the occupation in January 1990.
However, the official Baku has not even expressed condolences to Georgia! It had to sent, at least, humanitarian assistance to the neighbors and to give principal assessment to the Kremlins actions.
It is stupid and dishonest to keep silence in such a situation, and to hope that Azerbaijan will be able to escape the same fate. Politics is a pragmatic business, but it is not good not to notice that a strategic partner is subjected to aggression.
Azerbaijans fate directly depends on the situation in Georgia, through the
territory of which oil and gas pipelines go. It is absolutely clear that Moscow wants to achieve the resignation of the legally elected President and to appoint their marionette to control the South Caucasian region. Then it will be possible to put an end to any talks about independent energy policy, strategic partnership with the West and many others. Realization of Russias goals will certainly restore the former USSR, and will make all the neighbors afraid of Russia.
Today Azerbaijan does not support Georgia, but Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and other countries do. These countries, which are far from the Caucasus, are not afraid to express their position and their Presidents arrived in Tbilisi to support Georgia. At the press conference in Moscow on Thursday Russias Foreign Minister said the territorial integrity of Georgia must be forgotten. Maybe somebody hopes to survive and keep Karabakh only because he is silent at this moment, but it is evident that one of the next operations of urging to peace will strike Azerbaijan.
Shahin Hajiyev
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I welcome respected media representatives, professional and honest journalists from places of detention. July 22 is an important day for journalists, mass media and teachers of Azerbaijan. 149 years ago, Hassan Bey Zardabi, the great educator, the most valuable thinker, the founder of our journalism, lit the first light for society to come out of darkness, giving humanity the newspaper “AKINCI.”
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