World community should condemn upcoming election scam in Nagorno-Karabakh

/By AzerNews/

By Mushvig Mehdiyev

The international community should condemn the so-called "parliamentary elections" scheduled by the separatist regime in Nagorno-Karabakh for this May, a Turkish parliamentarian said.

Member of Turkish ruling Justice and Development Party, Mustafa Kabakci said global powers have to turn a deaf ear to the results of the upcoming election scam.

"I hope the results of the "parliamentary polls" will not be recognized as it was last time," Kabakci added.

Acting on its usual belligerent narrative, Yerevan has encouraged the puppet regime in Azerbaijan's occupied lands to hold illegitimate parliamentary elections, in view of drawing Baku into a new confrontation.

The so-called authorities in the occupied Azerbaijani lands have scheduled "parliamentary elections" for May 3, 2015, read an earlier statement from the illegitimate "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" president’s press office.

Kabakci said that the forthcoming fallacious "election" should be regarded as a step taken in defiance of the decisions of the UN Security Council and all OSCE principles.

"Turkey doesn’t recognize this so-called "election" and considers it illegal," he noted.

Ankara’s position in view of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is crystal clear - it should be settled in line with Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, Kabakci said.

The Turkish MP called on the OSCE Minsk Group to approach this issue fairly as part of its mediation efforts in settling the conflict.

"During the negotiations held within the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict's settlement, this "election" should be strongly condemned and appreciated as a blow on regional peace and stability," Kabakci said.

Earlier Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Latvia, Italy, and Switzerland voiced the same stance, slamming the elections as illegitimate.

In February, the Azerbaijani foreign ministry called the "parliamentary elections" by the Yerevan-backed puppet regime in Nagorno-Karabakh illegitimate, stressing that it was a deliberate move aimed at undermining peace talks and preventing any breakthrough in the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The Azerbaijani authorities, additionally, announced that they would asses any step taken by the puppet regime in these territories as an act of aggression on another country's territory.

As a result of Armenia's armed invasion into Azerbaijan's legal territory, the two neighboring countries remain locked in a bitter territorial dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Armenia-backed separatists seized from Azerbaijan in a bloody war in the early 1990s.

Despite Baku's best efforts, peace in the occupied lands remains a mirage in the distance since Armenia refuses to comply with international law.

Baku proposed a Great Peace Agreement project to work jointly on the conflict's settlement. Yerevan refused, of course to seize such peace opportunity, preferring instead to support the occupation.