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American Azerbaijanis welcome the Obama-Erdogan negotiations

08 December 2009 17:41 (UTC +04:00)

Washington. Isabel Levin â€“ APA. American Azerbaijanis network welcomes the Obama-Erdogan negotiations, held in Washington DC yesterday, APAâ€™s US correspondent was told at USAN. US Azerbaijanis notice, that â€œthe item of most interest to our community was on the subject of the opening of the land border between Armenia and Turkeyâ€.

The U.S. Azeris Network is content with the public remarks and results of the talks between the two leaders, â€œbecause they re-emphasize the historic and umbilical link between the symbolism of the opening of the land border between Armenia and Turkey, and the need for Armenian military withdrawal from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region.â€

USAN also stresses that â€œIt was precisely because of Armeniaâ€™s military occupation of 16% of Azerbaijan and the ethnic cleansing of some 800,000 Azerbaijanis from their homeland in 1991-1994, culminating in the occupation of Kelbajar region in April 1993, that the Republic of Turkey, complying with several UN Security Council resolutions and OSCE decisions dealing with Armenian occupation and military aggression, closed its border with Armeniaâ€.
They remind Turkeyâ€™s assistance: â€œTurkish action saved countless Azerbaijani lives, and made an important precedent in the penalizing a nation that broke all international laws and chose military aggression and occupation as the way to developâ€.

USAN states, that today, with Armenia wanting to open the border, â€œthese talks and negotiations present a unique chance for the international community, particularly Turkey and the U.S., to bring the OSCE Minsk Group peace negotiations, that are going on since 1992, between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, to a successful fruition.â€
The USAN calls on: Armenia to comply with the four outstanding UN Security Council resolutions from 1993; the Armenian Diaspora and its lobby and advocacy organizations to stop being an impediment to the peace and prosperity in the South Caucasus; regional powers to more strongly support the sequential course of actions; Turkey for continued coordination of actions with Azerbaijan, and fending off pressure to open the border unilaterally; United States for using its unique influence to compel Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora to view this sequential course of action as a necessity primarily for Armenia and Armenians, as it is in full interest of the Armenian nation.