Opinion: Azerbaijan must take Armenia out of economic blockade and make it economically dependent

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Azerbaijan must open borders with Armenia and establish economic and diplomatic ties with it, believes the leader of the Green Party (Azerbaijan) Mais Gyulaliyev.

According to him, the party conducted a geopolitical survey in the region and grounding on it prepared a package of proposals to settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The package mostly considers economic, social and political ways of the conflict settlement. The document provides analysis of the Azerbaijani economy, the country’s oil revenues. Besides, the package includes results of analysis of positions and interests of international institutions regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The Green Party leader believes that a military way of the conflict settlement is unreal and rules out this scenario. According to him, this could gain profit only to the Azerbaijani opposition seeking change of power. “The opposition comprehends that in the near future it will not be able to come to power through elections. Forces wanting ousting of the government are doing their utmost to make the government resort to the forceful way and using the situation to achieve replacement of the government. If there is a war, international institutions will spare no effort to replace the government, even NATO troops will immediately strike Azerbaijan,” the Greens leader says. According to him, the Karabakh issue must be settled only in the political way, which envisages Azerbaijan fulfilling all its international obligations. “In our package, we disclosed the obligations to the Azerbaijani public, opposition, NGOs and international institutions. After fulfilling those obligations and improving economy, Azerbaijan must take Armenia out of the economic blockade and make it economically dependent from it,” Mais Gyulaliyev is quoted as saying by Trend.