“Breakfast Menu of Kocharyan and Aliev May Alter”
Support A1+!“Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan meet, because they should meet. Nothing will change in the negotiations till 2008, but for the breakfast or dinner menues of Kocharyan and Aliev”, announced Azerbaijani politician Arif Yunusov, the Head of the Department of Conflictology and Migration of the Institute of Peace and Democracy, who was participating in the “Caucasus 2006” conference in Yerevan.
In his report Yunusov presented the progress registered in Azerbaijan during the recent years. The results of the surveys carried out in the last 4 years Yunusov found out that if in the past only 30 percent of Azerbaijani population was for the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through military way, today 56 percent favors it. “Youth Azerbaijan is very radical today and they are for the restarting of the war”.
Among the recent successes of Azerbaijan Arif Yunusov mentioned Baku Jeihan pipeline exploitation. He assured that soon Kars-Akhalqalak-Baku Railway would be exploited and the US would finance that project. The Azerbaijani politician prioritizes Iran-USA relations for his country. “30-35 million Azeri live in Iran today. In case of US-Iran conflict, any position of Azerbaijan will be dangerous”, finds Yunusov.
Arif Yunusov considers the possible union of present Azerbaijan and Northern part of Iran “which is the most important point of pan Turkism project”. He also noted that today Azerbaijan was in better relations with NATO than Georgia; however, in order not to spoil relations with the Russian Federation no one makes this public. “Official Baku is confident in is external policy”.
“In the Russian and Azerbijan relations Azerbaijan is the leader, while in Azerbaijan the RF-West relations West is the leader”, said Arif Yunusov. The majority of the population in Azerbaijan is against both the RF and the West. And to the question as where Azerbaijan is headed today Yunusov replied: “To Armenia” and then added “To Islam”.
