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Analysis: Diplomatic clouds over Karabakh

While the May 23 Parliamentary elections in Nagorno Karabakh have changed little inside the self-declared republic, the very vote itself has attracted attention in the scope of Armenia-Azerbaijan-Turkey relations.

Diplomatic clouds started darkening over Nagorno Karabakh yet prior to the elections, when the European Union took a harsh stand stating that it “does not recognize as legal the forthcoming May 23 elections in Karabakh”.

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27.05.2010 08:30
Europe needs the natural gas ex. Nabucco Pipeline and is happy with the current dictatorship in Azerbaijan. President Aliyev is the vice president of the State Oil Company. Europe needs an undemocratic, weak Azerbaijan so it can use Azerbaijan weaknest anytime!
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27.05.2010 00:09
On May 20 the European Parliament passed a resolution on South Caucasus containing an appeal to withdraw the Armenian troops from Azerbaijan’s “occupied lands”. The author of the resolution is a Bulgarian parliamentarian Yevgeni Kiriliov. .... Special representative UN Secretary-General Walter Kalin, in his turn, called upon the international community to assist the withdrawal of Armenian troops from Azerbaijan's “occupied lands”. =========================== are these men offering themselves to go on the front line to protect the Armenian people of Karabakh ? if they are not, they have no right to call for the withdrawal of forces who are there to protect them.
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26.05.2010 11:39
I salute the EUs diplomatic approach about Artsakhs recent elections. Although the elections were fair and civilized, Artsakh is an integral part of Armenia proper, and thus, those elections were illegal as far as I and millions of other Armenians were concerned. Artsakh should not have elections, but have one that goes parallel with elections in Armenia. Artsakh is part of Armenia, and such, any elections there must and will be condemned as illegal. Waitingfor Artsakhs final integration with mother Armenia.
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26.05.2010 09:18
The key to the territorial integrity of Iran, China and Russian federation is in the hand of Armenia, as the key to "pan turan". The same key could pay the way for “pan turan” and make out of so called “modern Turkey” a BIG MONSTER and a far more dangerous neighbour of Europe and others……........... Armenia is Armenia; Armenia (including NKR) is the historic home land of Armenians while Turkey and "Republic of Azerbaijani" are in realty the adopted home land of "Turks” and “Tatar Turks”- or so called Azerbaijani as Stalin used to call them!" ………………. PS: Today NK issue and “refuges” being abused and used skilfully by Turkey and rules in Baku to spread nationalism within Iranian Azeri’s: Rulers in Baku know that NK was never part of an independent Azerbaijani republic....
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26.05.2010 08:24
This all can be sorted out and understood in two words: HYPOCRISY and DOUBLE-STANDARDS. The International Community, the West, the EU did all that was in its power to grant Kosovo independence while Serbia was asking to respect its territorial integrity. Cyprus has been occupied by the Turkish army and has started a de-facto independent republic, yet, when elections of any kind happen there...nobody says a thing, furthermore...many approve Turkey's joining with the EU. Russia protects and grants Abkhazia and South Ossetia independence, while at the same time they crush Chechnya, Tatarstan and respect "Azerbaijan's territorial integrity". Why can Kosovo, Abkhazia, SO, TRNC have independence, hold elections, and be protected, be recognized, but NK can't because it's "illegal"? Why Serbia's, Georgia's, Cyprus' territorial integrity is not important, while Azerbaijan's is? It seems nobody cares NK elections were free, democratic and fair, more than any other in the region, more than Azerbaijan or Armenia, and more than many European countries...the only thing that matters to them is "territorial integrity" and deciding what is legal and what not.......they don't care about freedom or democracy, they just work to satisfy the one's that will benefit them. If I am wrong, why only Azerbaijan's territorial integrity is important to them? This world is full of hypocrisy and double-standards. Luckily, this whole deal is diplomacy and politics, which are all dirty and corrupted, and if they are famous for something...is their wish to don't do nothing. No matter how many resolutions they accept, how many voices complain, how many people say "we condemn", politics works and is worth for the politicians, we the people work by other rules. NKR is independent, sovereign country, and it can have as many elections as they wish to...what the corrupted International community says worths nothing....NKR is a more free country than any of those who claim so
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26.05.2010 07:03
Armenia has other options too. If Armenia is forced by Turkey and her allies to sign a dirty arrangement which could pay the way for the realization of the dream of “pan turan” in this case neither Iran, nor China nor Russia will be remain as big as they are today! One should not forget all Turkish rules (including Erdogan, Gül etc) feel themselves in north China /”Turkistan”) , in north Iran (including Tehran itself) and parts of Russian federation as at home as they feel themselves at home in Ankara!
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