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JULY-2021 Table of Contents I. Armenia Ignores an Offer to Sign a Comprehensive Peace Treaty with Azerbaijan 2 II. Azerbaijan S JULY-2021 H I GHLBULLETII GHT OF THE FORE I G N P O L I CY OF REPUBL I C OFN AZERBA I JAN Table of contents I. Armenia ignores an offer to sign a comprehensive peace treaty with Azerbaijan 2 II. Azerbaijan sets up Karabakh and East Zangazur economic regions 3 III. Armenia continues to escalate the situation along the border with Azerbaijan 4 IV. Armenia hands over additional minefield maps to Azerbaijan 5 V. Azerbaijan opens trade mission in Israel 6 VI. President of European Council Charles Michel visits Azerbaijan 7 VII. President Ilham Aliyev visits Russia amidst Armenia’s increasing provocations at the border 8 VIII. Armenia continues its deliberate destruction of regional ecosystem 9 IX. Armenians in Karabakh are not entitled to special status 11 I. Armenia ignores an offer to sign a ministers and an EU delegation, adding that “I comprehensive peace treaty with have repeatedly said that we want to move Azerbaijan from a post-conflict situation to peaceful development and cooperation in the South For the past few months, Azerbaijan has been Caucasus. Unfortunately, we have never heard consistently emphasizing the need for a anything like this from the Armenian comprehensive peace treaty with Armenia. government. The Armenian government is Just recently, Minister of Foreign Affairs ignoring any of our statements about starting Jeyhun Bayramov pointed out that “this is negotiations on a peace agreement with realistically the first time after the obtaining of Armenia.” independence by both Armenia and Azerbaijan when our countries have a unique chance to Azerbaijan’s position on this issue has been normalize their relations,” adding that now very clear. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has normalization between the two countries is been resolved and Baku is ready to move possible since Azerbaijan eliminated the fact of forward in its relations with Armenia by signing the Armenian occupation and restored its a comprehensive peace treaty recognizing terrirotial integrity as a result of the 44-Days territorial integrity of both countries. War. President Ilham Aliyev has also However, the problem is that the Armenian repeatedly emphasized the importance of the government does not seem to be interested in peace treaty for the whole region. In his letter signing a peace treaty with Azerbaijan. On the to US President Joe Biden on the occasion of contrary, recent provocations and US Independence Day, President Ilham Aliyev indiscriminate shellings of the Azerbaijani once again urged the US to facilitate the peace positions along the border show that Yerevan process between Azerbaijan and Armenia, is more interested in escalating the violence noting that “I think the United States may and destabilizing the situation in the region. By contribute significantly to forging lasting peace escalating the tension and deepining the and atmosphere of trust between Azerbaijan confrontation, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol and Armenia, based on mutual respect to the Pashinyan is trying to create an opening for territorial integrity, sovereignty and other outside actors to get more actively inviolability of borders.” President Ilham Aliyev involved in the situation. Pashinyan is also went on to invite US firms to take part in torpedoing the trilateral format, which implies reconstruction and development work across the final resolution of the conflict, that is, the liberated lands. "We would like to see US mutual recognition of territorial integrity of companies as partners in this process," Azerbaijan and Armenia, the opening of President Ilham Aliyev noted. communications and obligations to resolve issues exclusively through political and “If we do not have a peace agreement with diplomatic means. To this end, Yerevan is Armenia, it means that there is no peace. purposefully aggravating the situation, openly There is no peace not only between the two violating the trilateral agreement of November countries but also in the South Caucasus. We 10, 2020. Pashinyan is also trying to make the need peace and sustainable development, OSCE Minsk Group relevant again, although forecasting, zero war risk, we do not need war. the group has completely outlived itself and in We did not need a war before,” President its current iteration is meaningless. As Robert Ilham Aliyev said on June 25 at a meeting with Cutler, a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs the Romanian, Austrian, Lithuanian foreign 3 Institute, pointed out in his article in Foreign unilaterally,” President Ilham Aliyev said, Policy Magazine “for the Minsk Group to have adding that those who thought that the any role at all, it would require not only new conflict had not been resolved were on “on the co-chairs but also new terms of reference. But wrong and dangerous path.” “If someone says events are moving and will continue to move that the conflict is not resolved, let them come too fast for cumbersome large-scale, and say how they see a solution and what is multilateral OSCE diplomacy to keep up. not resolved. If we are talking about the status Proposals for economic and political of Nagorno-Karabakh, I said that there is no cooperation in the region itself, including but territorial unit called Nagorno-Karabakh in not limited to Turkey’s “six-way platform” Azerbaijan. In general, this word, this proposal (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, expression should not be used. There is no Russia, and Turkey), are much more vital and Nagorno-Karabakh – there is Karabakh. The dynamic than political schemata sketched in Karabakh economic zone was established on foreign ministries thousands of miles from the the basis of a decree I signed on 7 July, and this scene.” is all. All regions of Karabakh are united into one. The East Zangazur economic zone has On July 14, President Ilham Aliyev noted that been established,” President Ilham Aliyev Yerevan failed to react to his proposal to sign a pointed out. peace treaty following the 44-Days War. “I have said several times that we are ready to sign a peace agreement with Armenia. In other II. Azerbaijan sets up Karabakh and words, we are ready to begin this work. East Zangazur economic regions However, there is no reaction from Armenia, there is no official reaction. The information On July 7, President Ilham Aliyev signed a we have received through unofficial channels decree on a new division of the country into is that Armenia is not ready for this. I think this economic regions. They will now include would be a big mistake. Just as the Armenian Karabakh and East Zangazur liberated during side made great mistakes and committed war the 44-Days War. According to the decree, crimes both in the run-up and during the war. there will now be 14 economic districts in This may be yet another grave mistake. Azerbaijan. The Karabakh economic region Because our proposal is based on a new real covers Khankandi city, Aghjabadi, Aghdam, situation. We believe that the issue has been Barda, Fuzuli, Khojali, Khojavand, Susha and resolved and there should be a peace Tartar regions. The Eastern Zangazur economic agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan. region includes the newly-liberated Jabrayil, There must be recognition of each other's Kalbajar, Gubadli, Lachin and Zangilan regions. territorial integrity, recognition of borders, In his speech on July 14, President Ilham Aliyev and delimitation work must begin,” President pointed out that both East and West Zangazur Ilham Aliyev noted. are parts of historical land of the Azerbaijanis, which was taken away from Azerbaijan and President Ilham Aliyev also reiterated that the handed over to Armenia by the Soviet Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was over. “The government. “It is the land of our ancestors, Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh that we must return there, we will return and conflict has been resolved. This conflict has we are already returning there. No-one can been resolved. It is us who has resolved it, the stop us. We will definitely return, because Azerbaijani state. We have resolved this Mirza İbrahimov 8, Baku, AZ1005, Azerbaijan, Phone: (+994 12) 596-82-39, (+994 12) 596-82-41, E-mail: [email protected] www.aircenter.az 4 there is no other way,” President Ilham Aliyev territories. Overall, $2.2 billion is planned to said, adding that “the 10 November Trilateral be allocated for the restoration process in Declaration states: all refugees must return to 2021. The funds will be used to restore the their homeland. Our native land is Zangazur, infrastructure and historical monuments in the our native land is Goycha district, Iravan. We liberated lands. will definitely return there.” The first steps taken in the restoration process The new division has been carried out with the have been the construction of roads, aim of making the restoration and highways, airports, and other transport links. reintegration process of liberated territories as Reconstruction of transport networks and efficient as possible. Azerbaijan liberated 300 establishment of airports in the liberated city centers, settlements, villages and the territories will create a favorable environment historic Shusha city as a result of the 44-Days for the full usage of the tourism potential of War. The November 10 agreement also Karabakh while establishing green energy imposed the return of Kalbajar, Lachin and zones and smart cities will boost economic Aghdam districts occupied by the Armenian growth in the region. As Dr. Esmira Jafarova forces in the war in the early 1990s. The puts it, “Azerbaijan is bent on carrying out the Armenian occupation has caused the reconstruction work in its liberated territories, enormous destruction of Karabakh. Armenia and the idea is to rebuild those territories as has almost completely destroyed the existing “smart” cities and villages”. The main goal is to infrastructure in the occupied territories, utilize technology integration and smart green razing most of the cities and villages to the solutions as the way to achieve a sustainable ground.
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