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2024-05-21 02:13:25
Creator: Elchin Alioglu
Supply: Pattern
It was essential to take concrete steps to get rid of the stress within the relations between the USA and Azerbaijan. Regardless of the biased conduct of the official Washington, unusual statements and selections that would significantly have an effect on the peace course of within the area, Baku behaved coolly.
Now the USA is about to take an actual step ahead.
On this regard, the Baku-Washington dialogue intensified final week for the primary time in latest months.
In Washington, talks have been held with Jake Sullivan, adviser to US President Joe Biden, John Bass, deputy secretary of state for political affairs, Anthony Blinken, Yuri Kim, first deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, in addition to Robert Gilchrist, assistant secretary of state for democracy, labor and human rights. Within the discussions, in fact, the present state of the US-Azerbaijani relations and, most significantly, their prospects have been reviewed.
A very powerful level was the normalization of contacts between Washington and Baku.
As a result of the relations between our states have change into fairly strained in latest months.
Statements of the US embassy in Azerbaijan “concerning human rights and democratic elections within the nation” have already change into a mantra, harking back to a cliché, Ambassador Mark Libby’s – to place it mildly – too ambiguous statements in an interview with native journalists, his refusal to go to Shusha, and later subjective feedback in regards to the parliamentary elections and his biased assertion – all this, in fact, couldn’t serve the growth of relations between Baku and Washington.
Beforehand, the “unusual” video games of the USA with Yerevan; on April 5, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, President of the European Fee Ursula von der Leyen, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met in Brussels and signed an settlement on the unprecedented help of CIS international locations to Yerevan; The start of the USA brazenly addressing navy support to Armenia; The complete help of Yerevan, the place the ultimate peace settlement between Azerbaijan and Armenia has not been signed, its instigation to new geopolitical and diplomatic “initiatives”, thereby creating synthetic issues within the negotiation course of – all this was to weaken the American efforts geared toward establishing sustainable peace and stability within the South Caucasus area.
Earlier, there have been hearings within the US Congress, Yuri Kim and James O’Brien left behind the pro-Armenian congressmen and senators and voiced harsh, baseless and biased statements in opposition to Azerbaijan and accused Baku.
In fact, all this triggered shock after which anger in official Baku.
Because of this, in latest months, Washington and Baku have been experiencing extreme and diplomatic conflicts.
Now evidently the ice in mutual relations is regularly melting.
Step one was to go to Shusha after US Ambassador to Baku Mark Libby mentioned “I can’t go”.
Actually, this journey didn’t change something and couldn’t change something.
The media of the USA and Armenia, in addition to Russia and Iran, described M. Libby’s refusal to go to Shusha as virtually a non-recognition by Washington of the truth that Shusha is an Azerbaijani metropolis.
Such claims are absurd and ridiculous. There’s completely no want for the standing of Shusha, the cultural capital of Azerbaijan, to be acknowledged by any state, together with the USA. Shusha is likely one of the cities of Azerbaijan, and that is an axiom in keeping with the Structure of the nation, in addition to worldwide legislation.
When Azerbaijan gained state independence in 1991, its sovereignty, territorial integrity and border inviolability have been acknowledged by worldwide organizations and states, together with the United Nations, amongst which was the USA.
Mark Libby’s go to to Shusha signaled Washington’s intention to step ahead somewhat than retreat, and Baku obtained and understood this message.
Washington’s initiative in direction of the normalization of the relations, which have been strained on account of the conduct of the political elites of the USA based mostly on subjective and biased factors, and which have been usually strained in latest months, was welcomed with understanding.
Because the present state of relations, that’s, the disaster scenario, is fully and straight the “work” of Washington, it ought to have taken step one in direction of softening the tough diplomatic dialogue.
And threw.
Illusions comparable to adjustments in US coverage and Washington’s sudden sympathy for Baku are misplaced. It is simply that the USA adequately assesses the adjustments in world geopolitics and the realities within the South Caucasus.
Washington additionally realizes that the weakening of interstate relations and the straining of relations don’t meet the pursuits of Baku. Official Baku is concerned about activating contacts throughout the ocean, increasing cooperation in all (!) fields, from financial system to geopolitics, and is able to take the mandatory steps in these instructions and make applicable selections.
Fairly, it has all the time acted throughout the framework of the talked about technique.
However along with all this, there are points on which Azerbaijan won’t ever compromise and won’t take a single step again, which Washington is aware of about.
The record of these points could be very brief: border inviolability, territorial integrity, sovereignty, inadmissibility of interference in inner affairs.
Not like various states within the post-Soviet area and different areas, insistences, threats, ultimatums, threats of sanctions, and so on., are usually not utilized to Azerbaijan. it’s unattainable to forcefully settle for one thing, to make “crucial adjustments” within the present coverage.
Official Baku has all the time maintained its place on basic points and can proceed to take action sooner or later.
Azerbaijan, which renewed the geopolitical realities within the South Caucasus after the 44-day Second Karabakh Warfare, ended the existence of the separatist-terrorist junta in Khankendi with one-day native anti-terrorist measures on September 19 final yr, and restored its borders alongside the complete perimeter, is now the financial, political, geopolitical and navy chief of our area.
The intensification of relations between the international locations of Jap Europe and Azerbaijan, the will of Bulgaria and Slovakia to purchase extra pure gasoline from Azerbaijan, the rise of relations and affect of official Baku within the Jap bloc of the European Union, in addition to the activation of contacts between Azerbaijan and China haven’t escaped the eye of the USA.
America realized, though it was too late, that shut relations with Azerbaijan are inevitable with the intention to enhance its affect and strengthen its place within the South Caucasus.
After the adoption of the legislation “On the transparency of international affect” in Georgia, the USA realized that the perceptions in Washington in regards to the apparent inclination of official Tbilisi to the West have been a fable.
Armenia nonetheless doesn’t reside as much as Washington’s hopes.
Regardless of all of the speeches and anti-Russian rhetoric of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia has no intention of leaving the CSTO, the Eurasian Financial Union and the Eurasian Customs Union.
Having expelled the Russian peacekeeping contingent (RSK) from its whole territory, Azerbaijan pursues a cold-blooded, pragmatic and rational coverage in such a scenario.
It is because of this that Washington needed to admit its errors.