{"id":823559,"date":"2024-01-25T10:40:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T07:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=823559"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:18:38","slug":"when-armenia-occupied-azerbaijani-lands-josep-borrell-was-very-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2024\/01\/25\/when-armenia-occupied-azerbaijani-lands-josep-borrell-was-very-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"When Armenia Occupied Azerbaijani Lands Josep Borrell Was Very Silent\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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By Azer HASRET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his press remarks after the Foreign Affairs Council the High Representative on Foreign Affairs of the European Union Josep Borrell<\/strong> voiced baseless and unjustified claims regarding Azerbaijan. He noted that Azerbaijan has territorial claims against Armenia. He had even stressed that the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev<\/strong> voiced these claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see the issue deeper let\u2019s read through what was said<\/a> by Mr. Borrell on Jan 22, 2024, during his press remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u2026we agreed that Azerbaijan needs to return to substantive peace and normalization talks with Armenia. The latest territorial claims by President [of Azerbaijan, Ilham] Aliyev are very concerning. And any violation of Armenia\u2019s territorial integrity will be unacceptable and will have severe consequences for our relations with Azerbaijan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As is seen Mr. Borrell is talking about President Aliyev\u2019s territorial claims against Armenia. But as a citizen of Azerbaijan, plus as a person closely following political developments not only within, but outside of Azerbaijan I can strongly oppose these claims by Mr. Borrell and assure that President Aliyev never voiced territorial claims against Armenia. What I know the President continuously states that Azerbaijan has no intention to occupy any piece of territory of any other country including Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is obvious and even Mr. Borrell has an opportunity to contact Mr. Aliyev and ask him if he has territorial claims against Armenia. But as we see Mr. Borrell didn\u2019t dare to do this and check the truthfulness of the claims spread by some propaganda centers. He made himself a tool of propaganda for those centers. Unfortunately\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we\u2019ll see which country has the territorial claims against its neighbor. That is Armenia, not Azerbaijan having territorial claims. And we have quite enough evidence to prove this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s read through The Constitution of Armenia. Just in its Preamble, we can see that Armenia has territorial claims against Azerbaijan! And this is the major soul of that Constitution thus making this country an aggressor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see the details let\u2019s read through the mentioned Preamble: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Armenian People, accepting as a basis the fundamental principles of Armenian statehood and pan-national aspirations enshrined in the Declaration on the Independence of Armenia<\/a>, having fulfilled the sacred behest of its freedom-loving ancestors to restore the sovereign state, dedicated to the strengthening and prosperity of the fatherland, with the aim of ensuring the freedom, general well-being, and civic solidarity of the generations, and affirming its commitment to universal values, adopts the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One who doesn\u2019t know the issue well would say that where is the territorial claim here? We\u2019ll explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Preamble is quoting The Declaration on the Independence of Armenia. And very this document openly expresses territorial claims against Azerbaijan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s see this time the mentioned Declaration:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Supreme Council of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expressing the united will of the Armenian people;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Based on the December 1, 1989, joint decision of the Armenian SSR Supreme Council and the Artsakh National Council on the \u201cReunification of the Armenian SSR and the Mountainous Region of Karabakh\u201d;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Declares<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beginning of the process of establishing of independent statehood positioning the question of the creation of a democratic society based on the rule of law;..\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Declaration was adopted on August 23, 1990, and is taken as a basis for The Constitution of Armenia. Mr. Borrell before accusing Azerbaijan of territorial claims against Armenia could look through this Constitution and see the real territorial claimers\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And this is not even the last evidence showing Armenia\u2019s territorial claims against its neighbors. The Constitution of Armenia has one more piece of evidence, this time against T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s see again The Constitution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Article 21. The Symbols of the Republic of Armenia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026The coat of arms of the Republic of Armenia shall depict, in the center on a shield, Mount Ararat with Noah\u2019s ark and the coats of arms of the four kingdoms of historical Armenia\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, once again a person with no imagination about the region would see nothing here. But if look deeper one can see that Armenia has territorial claims against T\u00fcrkiye. As we know the mount which Armenia calls \u201cArarat\u201d is a Mount Aghri based in the territory of T\u00fcrkiye. Why would a country depict a natural object of another country on its national symbol? Where is the logic?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is one more piece of evidence proving that Armenia has territorial claims against at least two of its neighbors: Azerbaijan and T\u00fcrkiye. But Mr. Borrell is accusing Azerbaijan of \u201chaving territorial claims against Armenia\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going through this evidence we can once more see that the EU High Representative Josep Borrell is voluntarily acting as part of the Armenian propaganda machine. But we here in Azerbaijan and other countries of the region were seeing the European Union and its representatives as those who could guarantee more freedom, justice, and well-being for our people\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S.<\/strong> Armenia kept under its occupation about 20 percent of the territory of Azerbaijan for more than 28 years. This very Mr. Borrell never talked about Armenia\u2019s obvious occupation while the evidence was very clear. But now he is accusing Azerbaijan for having territorial claims against Azerbaijan while he has no single evidence to prove this\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As is seen Mr. Borrell is talking about President Aliyev\u2019s territorial claims against Armenia. But as a citizen of Azerbaijan, plus as a person closely following political developments not only within, but outside of Azerbaijan I can strongly oppose these claims by Mr. Borrell and assure that President Aliyev never voiced territorial claims against Armenia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4108,"featured_media":823560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10434,41,21,89],"tags":[9724,9726,8644,10876,10875],"class_list":["post-823559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-azer-hasret","category-azerbaijan","category-eu-members","category-turkey","tag-armenia","tag-azerbaijan","tag-european-union","tag-josep-borrell","tag-territorial-claim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}