Baku conduct conflicts with international legitimacy criterion
Azerbaijani official establishment announces that "the Karabakh status problem can be resolved only on the basis of the internal legislation of Azerbaijan" and the activities of the Minsk Group, in consultations with the conflict sides on the status, are allegedly an intrusion into the domestic affairs of Azerbaijan, Head of the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the MoD, Doctor of Political Sciences, Major General Hayk Kotanjian said in an interview with the press center of the RA Ministry of Defense.
"A symptomatic illustration appears to be the incompatibility of the Republic of Azerbaijan's Constitution with the essence of international legal norm on the principle and right of nations to master their fate independently by means of free expression of popular will in conditions of complete freedom, stipulated by the UN Charter and International Covenants on Human Rights of 1966. As it is known, these documents in the international relations system are treaties consolidating the states' commitment to adhere to and respect universally recognized fundamental principles and norms of the International law, first and foremost - human rights and freedoms. It concerns those principles of the International law, which comprise its most stable kernel and are a universal criterion to evaluate legitimacy of states' conduct."
"The norm of the Azerbaijan's Constitution "on change of territory by holding a referendum among all the Azerbaijani population" contradicts the other norm of the same document, defined in the article "The ultimate goal of the state". In accordance with the given definition "human and citizen rights and freedoms, enumerated in the present Constitution are employed in conformity with the international treaties, which are supported by the Republic of Azerbaijan". In this case the above mentioned international treaties should be touched upon."
"Thus the assertions of the Azerbaijani authorities on their adherence to the international law in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict resolution don't correspond to the truth. The conduct of Azerbaijan in terms of consistent reflection of universally accepted principles and norms of the international law in the Constitution, as well as in the Karabakh conflict settlement practice, doesn't correspond to the international legitimacy criterion," the Major General resumed.
"A symptomatic illustration appears to be the incompatibility of the Republic of Azerbaijan's Constitution with the essence of international legal norm on the principle and right of nations to master their fate independently by means of free expression of popular will in conditions of complete freedom, stipulated by the UN Charter and International Covenants on Human Rights of 1966. As it is known, these documents in the international relations system are treaties consolidating the states' commitment to adhere to and respect universally recognized fundamental principles and norms of the International law, first and foremost - human rights and freedoms. It concerns those principles of the International law, which comprise its most stable kernel and are a universal criterion to evaluate legitimacy of states' conduct."
"The norm of the Azerbaijan's Constitution "on change of territory by holding a referendum among all the Azerbaijani population" contradicts the other norm of the same document, defined in the article "The ultimate goal of the state". In accordance with the given definition "human and citizen rights and freedoms, enumerated in the present Constitution are employed in conformity with the international treaties, which are supported by the Republic of Azerbaijan". In this case the above mentioned international treaties should be touched upon."
"Thus the assertions of the Azerbaijani authorities on their adherence to the international law in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict resolution don't correspond to the truth. The conduct of Azerbaijan in terms of consistent reflection of universally accepted principles and norms of the international law in the Constitution, as well as in the Karabakh conflict settlement practice, doesn't correspond to the international legitimacy criterion," the Major General resumed.
