Zurab Todua: "Azerbaijan does not seem willful to return its territories"

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Azerbaijan does not seem willful to return its territories," according to a Russian expert.



"Let's imagine the following situation: President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev declares that patience of the Azerbaijani people has been exhausted and it will settle the Karabakh problem independently. Then Azerbaijan will start hostilities. How many volunteers will go to the front to return the lost lands? How much money will Azeri officials spend for army needs? How many of them will reject their villas, yachts and limos and other luxurious things to bear wartime hardships and miseries alongside with ordinary citizens? How many victims is the Azerbaijani society ready to give for the sake of the return of the lost lands? If you give an honest answer to these questions, you will admit that Turkey has the right to take care of its national interests, which also envisages normalization of relations with Armenia," political scientist Zurab Todua said.



Asked about "improvement" of the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, he said, "If you mean prospects of "return" of Nagorno Karabakh, then it is unreal. On the whole, Armenian-Turkish dialogue will not have a serious influence on the Azerbaijani-Armenian relations, I think."



"There is no place of naivety in the politics and Turkey and Armenia primarily settle their own tasks at the bargaining table," he added, Day.az reports.