ArmInfo. Azerbaijan has always responded to the right of the people of Artsakh to self-determination with aggression. This was stated on November 9 in an interview with journalists by head of the "Armenia" opposition parliamentary faction, former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia Seyran Ohanyan.
He noted that Azerbaijan carried out aggression not only in 2020 during the 44-day war, but also in the April 2016 war, during the first Artsakh war. "When you hear the belligerent rhetoric of the highest military-political leadership of a neighboring state directed against the territorial integrity of Armenia, the behavior of the authorities of our country, which ruined the army, is surprising, and the actions of the opposition qualify as a struggle of revanchists," the former minister noted, adding that there is no nation in the world that has not made sacrifices for its independence and territorial integrity. Meanwhile, as Ohanyan noted, Baku's aggression continues today, taking various actions on the country's borders. The enemy celebrated the day of victory in Shushi yesterday, continuing to fire at the same time.
Against this background, there are statements from the Armenian side to go to negotiations, thereby driving themselves into a trap. <I think this kind of behavior is unacceptable. If earlier we thought for years that the Artsakh issue should be resolved with the provision of a security zone, after which compromise options were discussed, now the discussions are going in a completely different direction. On the one hand, conditions are dictated to Armenia, including the refusal of the full protection of the country's borders and the right of self-determination of the people of Artsakh, which the Armenian side accepts, Ohanyan said. By signing the statement in November 2020, the statement of the authorities, who had nothing to do with the Artsakh liberation war, had no idea about the negotiation process and the full potential of negotiations. Ohanyan noted that the actions of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev have a logical continuation, the beginning of which was laid by his father, Heydar Aliyev, constantly organizing provocations and disregarding all international humanitarian norms. The silence of the international community is nothing but a matter of consent. Representatives of the "Armenia" faction raise 2 issues on all international platforms - condemnation of the actions of Azerbaijan with the application of appropriate sanctions against Azerbaijan and its leadership, and prevention of torture against Armenian prisoners of war, misappropriation or destruction of Armenian monuments remaining in the occupied territories. Of course there are individual political leaders, organizations and countries that condemned the actions of Baku, but, according to the oppositionist, the actions of the Armenian authorities in this direction are still insufficient. The MP noted that the current Armenian authorities are trying to falsify all the results of the negotiation process achieved by the previous authorities. Ohanyan noted that the idea of the right of the people of Artsakh to self-determination was at the heart of all the documents. The former minister sees the solution to the existing problem in the Armenia-Russia-Azerbaijan format. Considering the fact that peacekeeping forces have been deployed in Artsakh, we should not forget that the main guarantor of the security of the people of the republic was the Defense Army and the Republic of Armenia. At the same time, the Artsakh Defense Army was formed as a result of Azerbaijan's aggression.