“Aliev and Serzh Sargsyan face the same issue”
"The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will not be resolved during the tenures of Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliev," said director of the "Institute for Peace and Democracy" of Azerbaijyan Leila Yunusova during the program organized for representatives of the legal field and mass media of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan with the topic entitled "Legal state".
The meeting took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany with experts engaged in conflicts in the South Caucasus.
"The "Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be resolved through mutual concessions. They are going to be painful and must be made only by legitimate presidents. Ilham Aliev has a problem with legitimacy in Azerbaijan, while Serzh Sargsyan faces that issue in Armenia," declared Mrs. Yunusova.
According to her, the youth consider the conflict resolution through mutual concessions as unacceptable. Mrs. Yunusova remarked that as head of a NGO, she is only able to communicate with representatives of the Armenian opposition and some mass media outlets.
"We don't feel the need for Europe's support after it shuts its eyes on the events taking place in our countries. How can I tell Armenians that I will always defend my country's rights when rights are violated in Azerbaijan and vice versa?"
Touching upon the electoral systems in Azerbaijan and Armenia, Yunusova said:
"What happened on March 1 in Armenia was no surprise and it was the repetition of what took place in Azerbaijan in 2003."
Summing up the current situation in the South Caucasus, Yunusova said that there are pitfalls in democracy in all three countries of the region. Yunusova believes that the best way of reaching democracy is to raise the issues and find solutions to them. Yunusova allowed "A1+" to release her statements and point of views.
Let us mention that recently the Azeri authorities are persecuting Yunusova and her husband, politician Arif Yunusov even more.
