POLITICS
APPEAL OF MILLI MAJLIS OF THE AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC TO THE INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY ORGANIZATIONS AND PARLIAMENTS OF WORLD COUNTRIES
Carrying out of "elections" to this or other authorities of the puppet regime created with the help of foreign interventionists in the mountainous part of Karabakh, being an integral component of the Azerbaijan Republic, and not recognized by any world state, contradicts the standard principles and norms of international law, the Constitution, laws of the Azerbaijan Republic, does not possess any validity and cannot have any legal consequences. This political provocative act roughly breaking usual civil rights of 50 thousand of Azerbaijanis, ousted from mountainous parts of Karabakh, testifies to intention of the Armenian separatists to prevent the efforts directed on peace settlement of the Nagorny Karabakh problem and establishment of stability in region.
Plans of carrying out of the mentioned so-called "elections" are one more unsuccessful attempt to fix occupation of 20 percent of the Azerbaijani lands, that is Nagorny Karabakh and adjoining to it 7 districts, as a result of aggression of the Republic of Armenia and ousting from these arrears about 1 million Azerbaijanis.
As is known, in December 1999, in territory of the Azerbaijan Republic in democratic conditions municipal elections have been carried out, for the first time in history of our independent state institutions of local government have been generated. At that time, the Armenian separatists in mountainous parts of Karabakh have not taken part in the elections. In December of this year, in our country new municipal elections will be carried out. The Armenian separatists and this time are playing their game in "elections", showing unwillingness to return to legal space of Azerbaijan. In the whole, lawful authorities, including elected representation bodies, in the mountainous parts of Karabakh can be created only after elimination of consequences of aggression of the Republic Armenia against Azerbaijan, restoration of the sovereignty of the Azerbaijan Republic on all of its territory, returning of the Azerbaijan refugees and IDPs to the homelands.
Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic, expressing sovereign will of the Azerbaijani people, once again states that the Azerbaijan Republic will never be agreed with the predatory capture and annexation of a part of its territory and, using all available opportunities, will achieve restoration of the territorial integrity. The world community should know that the political tricks connected to carrying out in the mountainous part of the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan of illegal "elections" to institutions of local government, renders negative influence on the course of peace talks carried out with a view of peace settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic, demanding realization of the United Nations Security Council adopted in 1993 of the Resolutions number 822, 853, 874 both 884 on urgent and unconditional liberation of the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, calls to settle the Nagorny Karabakh problem on the basis of decisions and final documents of Budapest, Lisbon and the Istanbul summits of OSCE.
Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic, once again confirming adherence of the Azerbaijan Republic to peace settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh conflict, calls on the Armenian side to hold a constructive position in peace process, to refuse the acts preventing negotiations, conducted in the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group.
The international community should not remain indifferent to infringement of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Azerbaijan Republic. Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic calls on the United Nations Organization, Inter-parliamentary Union, Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly of BSEC, Parliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Islamic Conference Organization, the European Parliament and North Atlantic Parliamentary Assembly, other international organizations, parliaments and the governments of the countries of the world to express the resolute position in connection with plans of carrying out by a puppet regime of illegal "elections" in mountainous part of the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and to support the fair cause of Azerbaijan.
(The Appeal was adopted at session of Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic, June 22, 2004)