Azerbaijan is playing cat and mouse game with Armenia and the world -  analyst

ArmInfo.  While we are arguing on the streets and in government corridors about the conditions under which the Armenian state should be restored within the borders of the former USSR, 

Azerbaijan has decided to take a detour and question the very 

legitimacy of the Republic of Armenia.  Famous Armenian political 

analyst Manvel Sargsyan expressed such an opinion on his Facebook 

page.

The leadership of Armenia, by involving Azerbaijan in the process of 

border demarcation through preliminary territorial concessions, hopes 

that it will establish a strong "legitimate" fence against anyone 

entering its territory. But, as it turns out, once again the 

ingenuity of the opponent is underestimated. There is no 

understanding that the border issue for Azerbaijan is simply a method 

to force Armenia to make further concessions on more serious issues. 

Our "dreamers of peace", of course, are far from understanding such 

things.

The analyst briefly tried to explain the situation. In his opinion, 

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, during the reception of a 

delegation led by the OSCE Chair-in-Office on May 14, stated that the 

Armenian- Azerbaijani conflict was already a thing of history and it 

no longer exists, and said that the time had come to abolish the OSCE 

Minsk Group and all related institutions.

 The Azerbaijani side has raised this issue, and there is no reason 

why the Armenian side would not agree to this. At the same time, 

Aliyev emphasized that Azerbaijan, thanks to its will and strength, 

put an end to the 'occupation', ensuring territorial integrity and 

sovereignty in accordance with the norms and principles of 

international law and the UN Charter.

As Sargsyan noted, not only the OSCE, but also Armenian "advanced" 

eggheaded persons, of course, will internally agree with Aliyev. 

Like, let him close everything from the past and let's go to a 

"peaceful future". Those in the leadership of Armenia thought exactly 

the same way, who in 1991 recognized Artsakh as part of Azerbaijan 

with the hope that after that there would be no need to fight. But 

then they received punishment for their naivety - a brutal war. And 

only after that they realized that ceding rights to the enemy is not 

so harmless, you can get a terrible blow in return.

And why does Aliyev want to shut down the activities of the OSCE 

Minsk Group? Is it just to sum up the story?, the analyst asks. " By 

the way, for the first time he addressed this proposal to the OSCE 

Secretary in Munich. Why such persistence? Have the Armenian 

authorities thought about this? Apparently, not entirely, since 

during a conversation with the same OSCE chairman in Yerevan they 

only talked about how diligent they are and how carefully they carry 

out the demarcation and build peace and democracy. They didn't 

understand that completely different intrigues were being woven 

against them - on the border, Azerbaijan was just playing cat and 

mouse with Armenia and the world. And again, it seems to our 

philistines that delimitation is of some value for Azerbaijan - they 

cannot understand that this is just an effective mechanism for 

forcing Armenia to unconditionally surrender by admitting its guilt 

in the 'occupation' of foreign territories. With the termination of 

the Minsk Group's activities, a way is opened for Azerbaijan to 

declare Armenia an 'occupier' and further isolate and destroy the 

Armenian state.

The analyst believes that with this Azerbaijan will close the entire 

arsenal of political and legal facts about its gross violation of 

international law and the aggression of 1992. It will close the 

history of causing huge tragedy to people. Armenia will ultimately 

remain an 'aggressor and occupier'.

Azerbaijan has been working in this direction for several years. Both 

the trial and the reparations required are announced. And our 

townspeople have no idea about this arsenal of accusations against 

Azerbaijan, which are preserved by the 30-year history of attempts to 

determine the status of Artsakh in the international format of the 

CSCE/OSCE Minsk Group. Apparently, the subsequent demands of 

Azerbaijan will sober up many actors- it was not for nothing that 

Azerbaijan declared that the basic principle of settling relations 

with Armenia would be its demands, and not the Alma-Ata Declaration. 

Perhaps not everyone is completely clear about the essence of this 

dangerous story, Manvel Sargsyan noted.