OPINION: Azerbaijan seeks to derail international international status, including Australian, in support of OSCE Minsk Group in Nagorno-Karabakh – Press releases – News |
The authoritarian President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has now openly promised to derail the OSCE Minsk Group, an instrument supported by the UN Security Council and supported by the international community, including Australia, for a lasting solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
The Minsk Group, set up by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1992 and chaired by representatives of Russia, the United States and France, remains the only form of solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict agreed by all parties. The Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Artsakh and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Prior to the military attack in Azerbaijan supported by Turkey and Jihad in 2020, which led to ethnic cleansing and the subsequent occupation of certain areas of the Republic of Armenia, the OSCE Minsk Group Chairs had held peaceful talks between the parties under Helsinki. Principles of non-use of force, territorial integrity and the equal rights and sovereignty of peoples in the Final Act.
Aliyev has now, defying the international community and the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, brazenly declared that the OSCE Minsk Group “should not address the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as it has been resolved” following the recent military invasion of Azerbaijan. This indicates a clear intention to carry out the same occupation, ethnic cleansing and religious / cultural extermination and presence of the Armenian indigenous people that it has carried out over the last 14 months in the remaining Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is currently protected by Russian peacekeepers. as his final solution to the indigenous peoples ’quest for sovereignty in the lands of their ancestors.
Since the beginning of the OSCE Minsk Group process, the resistance to negotiations in Azerbaijan and the threats of violence in 2020 have despised international law that protects fundamental human rights, including the right to self-determination. Unfortunately, such behavior did not receive proper and necessary reprimands from the international community, which has thus appeased and continues to appease the clear aggressor and its consistent mockery of human rights norms.
Significantly, many nation states, including the Australian Federation, have used their post-2020 war declarations to express their unwavering support for the OSCE Minsk Group to find a final and newly negotiated solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, guided by the above principles.
Given the intention announced by the Azerbaijani dictatorship to undermine the OSCE Minsk Group in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Australian National Committee for Armenia (ANC-AU) urges the Australian Government to send a clear message once again to all parties to the conflict. reaffirms Canberra’s strong and principled support for the OSCE Minsk Group process for a lasting peace in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, guided by the principles of non-use of force, territorial integrity and equal rights and sovereignty in the Helsinki Final Act. Nations.
Australia, together with international stakeholders that secured visions for the independence of Kosovo and East Timor, must engage in a reflection on a lasting and peaceful outcome for the legitimate sovereignty of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) to ensure that the freedom race is never surrendered racial discrimination, ethnic cleansing, including the destruction of cultural and religious institutions, and many other human rights violations.
– Australian National Committee of Armenia (18 January 2022)