Russia is eager to regain influence over Azerbaijan, which currently is a “real ally” in the region, writes American Thinker. Now Moscow will rule over Armenia with money and military forces, and the Russian authorities intend to do the same with Baku, I’m sure the author of the article.
When in early April broke the military confrontation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the reconciliation of the warring parties engaged in Russia, not the United States, writes American Thinker columnist Raoul Lowery Contreras. Moreover, as the author notes, by intervening in the situation as a mediator, Moscow acted unilaterally – without U.S. and France, the other co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk group, which was established in 1990-ies for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict.
Meanwhile, us President Barack Obama, emphasized in the article, had not even held meetings with presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, when those at the beginning of April was in Washington to participate in the nuclear security summit. Besides, he didn’t even try to arrange a meeting between the two leaders of the conflicting States. In addition, when fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry is also “nowhere to be seen“. Both he and Barack Obama just “went missing“.
“No diplomacy at the moment is shocking. Why the U.S. President did not intervene in this episode, which was not just an ordinary shooting, and which claimed, as they say, the lives of hundreds of soldiers and civilians?” – asks the author.
Perhaps this will be news to the American President, but Azerbaijan was a partner in the U.S. fight against terrorism since 2002, when Baku gave the United States permission to move troops and supplies through Azerbaijani airspace for the war in Afghanistan, the observer noted American Thinker. In addition, the military of Azerbaijan to this day serve in Afghanistan as an ally of Washington, and Baku has played and continues to play an important role in “ensuring the energy security of the United States, its allies in Europe and Israel“.
Meanwhile, as recalled by Raoul Lowery Contreras, Washington in 1992 began to take on Azerbaijan is absurd steps. Then the U.S. Congress passed a law that “encouraged Armenia for its illegal invasion and punished Azerbaijan for the fact that he was defending himself“. This law, as stated in the article, was enacted on demand “well in financial terms secured of the Armenian lobby“.
“And how was reached the truce that stopped the shooting [in the recent conflict]? The Russians returned. As in the days of the Russian tsars, and during the Communists of the USSR, Azerbaijan for 200 years was ruled by the Russians. And they want to get it back. The old phrase, “sphere of influence” came back to life. Russia craves… craves greater influence on its former territories. It dominates over Armenia with the help of money and more than 5 thousand military and border guards; and wants to do the same with Azerbaijan, “–said the author.
As noted in the article, in June 2015 the European court of human rights has recognized Armenia is guilty in “illegal invasion (with the help of Russian army) in Azerbaijani territory“. According to the observer American Thinker, the recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh would never have happened if Yerevan has followed the UN resolutions, according to which Armenia must leave the fifth part of Azerbaijan, which she “illegally occupied for 22 years“.
“But with Russian support, Armenia has no reason to pass at least a part of Azerbaijani territories and allow hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijani refugees to return to their homes. The U.S. administration should challenge the trade influence of the Armenian lobby and to support justice for Azerbaijan, a real ally of America in the region, “concludes Raul Lowery Contreras.
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