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No principal difference between Crimean and Karabakh events – expert
Wed 19 March 2014 07:34 GMT | 12:34 Local Time
The Crimean events can be called a mirror image of the Karabakh events with a similar scenario of illegal referendum, political commentator Vuqar Seуidov thinks.
The referendum took place in the Crimea on 16 March.
Turnout, according to official data, was 82.71 percent of voters. Of those who went to the polls, 96.6 percent were in favor of joining the Russian Federation on the rights of a subject.
According to Seyidov, the referendum held in the Crimea is not legitimate, since it fundamentally violates the laws of international law.
"If we take as a basis the same principles and norms of international law, between the events in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Crimea there is no fundamental difference.
The only difference from the Crimea and Karabakh is that no ethnic cleansing was carried out in the Crimea," Seyidov said.
"In addition, one-sided referendum contradicts the Republican Constitution, as neither Azerbaijan nor Ukraine Constitution allows local referendums [in any separate area]. What kind of legitimacy can we argue about if on the one hand, it is a frame of nations to self-determination and on the other hand the rights of minorities, in this case the Crimean Tatars, is ignored?" said the expert.
According to the expert, there was a complete collapse of the system of international law established at the time high and mighty.
"And now we are seeing how this system began to work against their authors. Figuratively speaking, there is a transformation of 'power of law' into 'law of power' that is, the superiority of 'realpolitic' over idealism.
In the theory of international law, there are two schools: the school of realists who stand on the position that the strong is the one who is right, and the school of idealists who believe that the law should be paramount and it must be obeyed by all, including the strongest. So today, there was a victory of the school of "realpolitic" over the school of idealism. Now there is no power that could stop the Crimean events. Today Ukraine is divided into two parts, as it happened at the time with Germany.
Of course, the divided Ukraine will enter into NATO the same way NATO received the divided Germany (or rather the western part of Germany). It will be followed by separated Moldova, Georgia, and the world will wait for the end of the second Cold War and the emergence of another "Gorbachev". History is characterized by repetition, but from it we must be able to draw the right conclusions," Seyidov concluded.
News.Az
Wed 19 March 2014 07:34 GMT | 12:34 Local Time
The Crimean events can be called a mirror image of the Karabakh events with a similar scenario of illegal referendum, political commentator Vuqar Seуidov thinks.
The referendum took place in the Crimea on 16 March.
Turnout, according to official data, was 82.71 percent of voters. Of those who went to the polls, 96.6 percent were in favor of joining the Russian Federation on the rights of a subject.
According to Seyidov, the referendum held in the Crimea is not legitimate, since it fundamentally violates the laws of international law.
"If we take as a basis the same principles and norms of international law, between the events in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Crimea there is no fundamental difference.
The only difference from the Crimea and Karabakh is that no ethnic cleansing was carried out in the Crimea," Seyidov said.
"In addition, one-sided referendum contradicts the Republican Constitution, as neither Azerbaijan nor Ukraine Constitution allows local referendums [in any separate area]. What kind of legitimacy can we argue about if on the one hand, it is a frame of nations to self-determination and on the other hand the rights of minorities, in this case the Crimean Tatars, is ignored?" said the expert.
According to the expert, there was a complete collapse of the system of international law established at the time high and mighty.
"And now we are seeing how this system began to work against their authors. Figuratively speaking, there is a transformation of 'power of law' into 'law of power' that is, the superiority of 'realpolitic' over idealism.
In the theory of international law, there are two schools: the school of realists who stand on the position that the strong is the one who is right, and the school of idealists who believe that the law should be paramount and it must be obeyed by all, including the strongest. So today, there was a victory of the school of "realpolitic" over the school of idealism. Now there is no power that could stop the Crimean events. Today Ukraine is divided into two parts, as it happened at the time with Germany.
Of course, the divided Ukraine will enter into NATO the same way NATO received the divided Germany (or rather the western part of Germany). It will be followed by separated Moldova, Georgia, and the world will wait for the end of the second Cold War and the emergence of another "Gorbachev". History is characterized by repetition, but from it we must be able to draw the right conclusions," Seyidov concluded.
News.Az
