In the last issue of Policy Options, which publishes the Institute of Social and Political Research of Canada, an article by Anara Jahangirli is published an objective role and impartial mediation of Canada are important for countries affected in interethnic conflicts. “
This publication was a response to an article by the Armenian expert Vruir Makalyan “International Justice for Armenia”, printed some time ago in the same publication, in which the author demanded that the Government of Canada maintain the position of Armenia in Karabach only because ethnic Armenians in this region make up the majority.
In his publication, Makalyans, arguing the thirty-year occupation of the Azerbaijani lands by the desire of Armenia to “protect the Karabakh brothers”, accused Azerbaijan of violating the rights of the Armenian troops who were captured during a 44-day war, and turned to the government of Canada with a call to apply sanctions against a number senior officials of Azerbaijan.
In the response article, Anar Jahangirli noted the unceremoniousness of Makalyan’s calls, emphasizing that “attempts by various interested groups to ensure that Canada gives preference to one or another side in its foreign policy, first of all, damage the global position of Ottawa.”
According to the author, any territorial claims to Azerbaijan, argued by concern with the fate and safety of a particular ethnic group that lives compactly in this country, looks not serious in ditant.
“Firstly,” writes the author, “President Ilham Aliyev has repeatedly declared guarantees of security and protection of the rights of Armenians, as well as other ethnic groups living in multinational and multi -confessional Azerbaijan. And, secondly, against the background of thirty -year occupation and such military crimes of Armenia as the cold -blooded murder of 613 Azerbaijani women, children and the elderly in the Karabakh village of Khojaly, the calls of the Armenian expert to the Canadian government to apply sanctions against a number of high -ranking persons of Azerbaijan. , openly recognized in the genocide of the peaceful Azerbaijani population, ended up on the bench of the defendants of the Hague International Tribunal. “
Anar JAHANGIRLI convicts Makalyana, complaining to the disenfranchised position of the Armenian prisoners of war, in a rough twisting of facts.
“It should be understood,” Jahangirley emphasizes, “that the persons still held in Azerbaijan are accused of crossing the Azerbaijani border in December 2020, contrary to the tripartite statement that put the end of the Second Karabakh war. This is not about prisoners of war, but about saboteurs, but about saboteurs. and terrorists carrying out sabotage against Azerbaijan in peacetime. “