We no longer need Baku, as we had to resolve the Karabakh conflict. In an interview with Moscow Komsomolets, Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Cooperation, Eurasian Integration and Compatriots, stated this.
"Now the next escalation of our relations took place due to the events in Yekaterinburg. But this is just an opportunity, anything can be an opportunity. This policy of Azerbaijan has subjective and objective reasons. The objective is that Baku does not need special relations with Russia today. But it has a special relationship with Israel, Turkey and Great Britain.
Yes, it is not bad to benefit from trade and economic ties with Russia. But at this stage, it is already secondary than the other goals of Azerbaijan. So now we have to look for opportunities to explain why Azerbaijan does not agree with Russia, why does Aliyev hugs with Zelensky, why does he speak to Ukraine everywhere about his support?
And we are trying not to notice that. While we are talking, the final consultations are going on how to sign Pashinyan's Armenia and Aliyev Azerbaijan to sign a peace agreement, and definitely on the Western platform. The best in the United States to make Trump a peacemaker again and finally get the Nobel Prize.
The subjective reasons are in Ilham Aliyev's person. As long as he was crowned during his father's lifetime, he behaved like a face. And now he is not only president, heir and successor. He is the winner, which was exaggerated by euphoria. And as a result, as it seems to me, it goes further in relations with Russia than it was worth it. Aliyev could still do his jobs, hoping for our leadership and on his friends, but at the same time disobeyed Moscow. His behavior is surprised by some people of the Russian leadership, with whom I communicate. They are in no way able to understand why and why is Azerbaijan keeping himself so much so much?
You should not be surprised. This is a political figure in a European suit, which is eastern in all its manifestations and behavior. Ilham Aliyev is not ashamed to walk on Armenian flags and destroy buildings in Stepanakert, "Zatulin said.
He also stated. "Why didn't we prevent this war in 2020?" After all, we could have warned Azerbaijan to be tough that we will not allow force solution. And there would be nothing.
It seemed to anyone that Karabakh should not need anyone. Many people walked here and said that it is not our question, it is the work of the Armenians. The whole brick of the Caucasus was taken out of the whole building of Transcaucas, and everything collapsed. Under Pashinyan's reign, we are losing Armenia, but we do not buy Azerbaijan. Everything because of him that a small brick was taken away from the base of the pyramid. What did I talk about for 20-30 years?
But we have a certain tradition. Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov, who we all loved, refused to meet with Kocharyan when he was the President of Nagorno Karabakh. Why did Evgeni Maxovich treat Kocharyan so? He thought that friendship with Azerbaijan and Aliyev was more important. That is what that friendship managed, "the MP said.
According to him, the opening of the so-called Zangezur corridor will mean that in the prospects of some Armenian territories, first of all, Syunik will take place with Nakhichevan.
"The Nakhichevan Autonomous Region is separated from Azerbaijan. At one time, the majority of the population was Armenians, and now there are no Armenians there. As in Karabakh, "Zatulin concluded.
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