October 11, 2006 - 18:12 AMT
Vafa Guluzade: Legally Nothing Can Prevent Azerbaijan from Starting War
The Azerbaijani government has not undertaken any obligation forbidding it to start war," former presidential advisor Vafa Guluzade stated. According to him, the document on ceasefire of May 1994 records of "ceasefire before achieving peace." "There are no other obligations except this one and the state leader has many times said that if the peaceful talks fail the liberation of lands is Azerbaijan's indefeasible right. However it does not mean that Azerbaijan will launch war. All including Europe know that Azerbaijan will not do this," Heydar Aliyev's former advisor said. In his opinion, Azerbaijan can take the move only being sure of capability to defeat Armenia and Russia. "Only in this case the European Union mat ask Azerbaijan to undertake not to defeat them,' he said.

He also remarked that legally nothing can prevent Azerbaijan from liberating the territories by force. However, the political scientist remarked, war is a very complicated variant, since "the occupant is Russia and Azerbaijan will have to fight against Russia," reports Media Forum.