YEREVAN—Azerbaijan has outlined its demands for achieving a final peace agreement with Armenia, calling for significant amendments to Armenia’s Constitution.
Azerbaijan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Elnur Mammadov, speaking at a conference he
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Ermenis must do everything to appease beautiful brotherly turks.
Ermeni democracy picked Nikol Pashinyan, who is hero to all Ermenis.
Listen to beautiful Englishman, @Charles, who also says Ermenis must get rid of bad Russian kartoshkas. Ermenis have made their choice, let’s make Ermenistan part of Turkiye again! That is what we wanted with democracy.
I move from beautiful Istanbul to Erivan, and make so much money introducing beautiful brotherly Turks to Nikol Civil Contract. Many Armenian NGO Bolsahyes do, that’s why we are richest Ermenis.
Time for rest of Ermenis to get with the program, new Mercedes for everyone, just embrace beautiful brotherly Turks, and get rid of Russian kartoshkas
Armenia will become part of terrorist genocidal Turkey when pigs grow wings. I hear they are giving away beautiful Mongolian luxury yurts to any Turk who agrees to go back to his homeland in Central Asia. What better way to feel proud to be Turkish than live life like your Turkish grandparents. I will give you and your imaginary wife in Canada a brand new Mercedes Benz and all you have to do is to book a pre-paid one-way plane ticket back to where your Turkish grandparents came from!
The Turks can go and take a long walk off a short cliff.
There can be no real peace with the azeris and turks until they acknowledge the genocide and make reparations. This is only further repression and subjugation. Armenia did not lose any war with the azeris. Pashoglu and his regime were bought off and sold Artsakh out. Plain and simple.
And of course, Pashinyan will agree to Azerbaijan’s every demand. Has he refused so far?
The so-called republic of Azerbaijan in South Caucasus is an artificial state and that is a fact. There has never been a nation-state called Azerbaijan and there has never been a people or a tribe, never mind a nation, called Azerbaijani in the history of the region and the world. These names are all fabrications and they have been in official use only recently in the last century or so. The only TRUE Azerbaijan, and any references to it, can be found to the south of the Aras River inside Iran and nowhere else. There is no such thing as Western Azerbaijan just like there is no such thing as fabricated Northern or Southern Azerbaijan which this former homeless pseudo-Turkish tribe with a 106 year old artificial existence claims there is.
If our incompetent and dysfunctional leaders had any honor and dignity they would respond to the enemy and making it clear to them that artificial Azerbaijan republic is the continuation and extension of the contemporary republic of Armenia which itself is only 10% of the total Armenian landmass and the remaining 90% under Turkish and Azerbaijani occupation.
Furthermore, Armenia should demand that artificial Azerbaijan republic remove the crescent and the star from their fake flag and replace them with “White and Black Sheep” representing their homeless nomadic tribes. The sheep surely would be a TRUE representation of this former homeless tribe that today has established itself as a state, a fake one of course, on occupied Armenian territories!
I support what you say but has Armenia got the military capability to do all this let alone even defend itself ? What other choices apart from idle talk has Pashoglu got ?
My family name in Armenia goes back to 1610. The leaders of our Armenia should quit their jobs for complete and utter failure and incompetence in dealing with an enemy who keeps bullying another sovereign country to change its constitution for an enemy. In a logical world, their demands border on insanity. An Armenian leader, who agrees to change, and give away parts of a sovereign country to satisfy an enemy, is an enemy to my people, and my forefathers country. I am ashamed by the failed leadership of this spineless Armenian administration. The diaspora should all come back to show you how to fight. You have failed !!!!!
@Sevan
You and Charlie are both Turk lovers and traitors.
If Pashinyan capitulates to all of Azerbaijan’s and Turkey’s maximalist demands, which is a real possibility, Armenia will effectively become their puppet state. This would entail, apart from rewriting the Armenian Constitution to appease Azerbaijan and Turkey, a further loss of Armenian territory with the cession of a land corridor to Azerbaijan in Syunik, a foreign policy that takes the interests of Azerbaijan and Turkey into account and doesn’t clash with theirs, economic concessions and other benefits for Azerbaijan and Turkey, and a military that is restricted even further. This would be even worse than the Finlandization policy imposed by the Soviet Union on Finland, because of Armenia’s landlocked geographical location, meager resources and money, and lack of allies. Unfortunately, it is “the might makes right” situation, which has befallen so many smaller countries and nations throughout history, including Armenia, by larger powerful aggressors. What is tragic, is that a weak, cowardly, appeasing and treacherous man happens to be Armenia’s leader at its most precarious time.
@Gelo Ball
You are right. If western democracy means at the expense of Armenia’s territorial integrity, and in addition doesn’t bring more freedoms, rights, accountability, transparency or wealth for the Armenian people, then no thanks. There is nothing more important than Armenia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and security, whether it is authoritarian or a genuine democracy.
AS LONG AS ARMENIA CONTINUES TO BE A WEAK, CORRUPT, POOR, AND BACKWARDS, THIRD-WORLD TOILET, IT WILL FOREVER BE TURKEY’S AND AZERBAIJAN’S PAWN THAT WILL BE TOLD WHAT TO DO, WHEN TO DO IT, AND HOW TO DO IT. EVERY CORRUPT ARMENIAN SHOULD BE IN JAIL AS A SHAMEFUL DISGRACE AND TRAITOR TO THE NATION. EVERY PENNY SHOULD BE SPENT ON DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS, SCIENCE, RESEARCH, AND EDUCATION. EVERY FAMILY SHOULD HAVE 10 BABIES TO REPOPULATE ARMENIA. EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD, SHOULD BE A TRAINED SOLDIER WITH GUNS AND THOUSANDS OF AMMO. MAKE ARMENIA GREAT AGAIN!
By the way, when Azerbaijan has made it clear that it won’t allow Armenians to return and live in Artsakh, after it ethnically cleansed all Armenians and systematically destroyed Armenian heritage, homes and villages, why doesn’t the Armenian government issue any statements condemning Azerbaijan’s provocative irredentist “West Azerbaijan” rhetoric and categorically refuse the return of Azeris to Armenia? When Armenians won’t be allowed to live in Artsakh or Azerbaijan, why should Azeris be allowed to live in Armenia? Since neither will happen, and after all the wars and massacres, it is best that both people never live together again.
Steve: because Pashoglu and his regime were paid off by the Azeris and US/Uk oil interests. They installed a lackey as president of Armenia. No different than the maidan uprising in ukraine in 2014.
Pashoglu will do nothing to upset his US and turkic masters.
Any peace deal should also include release of all Armenian POW’s.
Steve M
A formal population exchange is probably the best option and a segregation like as between Greece and Turkey which whilst has its tension has avoided war although have come close indeed if not for both being part of NATO undoubtedly would have had some conflict rather than the occasional border incidents .
@Charles
In Greece and Turkey, and in Cyprus, the population exchanges were made, because the Turks and the Greeks who fought and massacred each other during the Greco-Turkish War in 1919-22, and during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, still briefly lived side by side in both countries after boths wars, and these population exchanges permanently ended the violence between both peoples.
However, a population exchange between Armenia and Azerbaijan is moot, because there are practically no Azeris living in Armenia since 1990 and practically no Armenians living in Azerbaijan since 2023. Only a few dozen Azeris are estimated to live in Armenia and a few dozen Armenians are estimated to live in Azerbaijan.
Armenia is willing to formalize the already occurred population exchange for a peace treaty with Azerbaijan, but Azerbaijan has still not reciprocated and shown an interest even for a cold peace with Armenia, by sticking to this irredentist pipe dream.
Formally agreeing that Armenia is for Armenians and the tiny numbers of non Armenians such as yazidi and Georgians and Azerbaijan for Azeris and other peoples within that country should remove much of the kith kin excuses. It will be the end of Arktash but will be the end of Azeri designs of western Azerbaijan upon Armenia theoretically they could demand Armenia Allow ethnic Azeri persons deported from Armenian SSR in 1947 by the Soviet Union which made way for Many from the diaspora to settle in exchange for return to Arktash where speaking Armenian is likely to be forbidden streets named after genocidaires Alyiev personality cult a depressing prospect. Sadly Armenia engaged in pipe dream antics 1994 2020 namely a complete failure to formally recognise Arktash and to get foreign recognition. It seems that Azerbaijan is engaging in similar folly even if it has overt Turkish support and possible covert Israeli support and a spiteful approval from Russia jealous of Armenia distancing due its poor support and hypocrisy towards Armenia.
SHOOT ONESELF IN THE FOOT. Azerbaijan’s demands are ֆոր exploitating the internal division of Armenia. The Armenians, I am referring to the citizens of Armenia, who oppose the Crossroad for Peace initiative, are shooting themselves in their feet. The hyphenated Armenians in Diaspora who oppose the Crossroad for Peace initiative from far away, may be giving the Armenians ammunition to do just that, shoot themselves in their feet.
You guys really need to stop fighting eachother. You will do much better if you learn to compensate for one another and move on for the good of the country. All the best.
That makes sense, and Seems like good advice.
Pashinyan and the other Armenian government members have been awfully quiet about Azerbaijan’s neverending irredentist demands. On top of these provocations, Azerpost – the state postal service of Azerbaijan which celebrated the genocidal Second Artsakh War by issuing a postage stamp with an exterminator fumigating Artsakh in 2020 – has now unveiled a “History of Western Azerbaijan” stamp series featuring Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, which they claim as “İrəvan”.
Just type in “History of Western Azerbaijan” and “exterminator fumigating Artsakh” and these provocative images will appear.
If Armenia issued stamps about Artsakh or about Eastern Armenia – after all, most of what is now Azerbaijan, was once part of Armenia in the Classical Era – Azerbaijan would throw a hysterical fit and threaten Armenia, which it already does. Why doesn’t the Armenian government call out this double standard by Azerbaijan and condemn its incessant provocations?