Azerbaijan`s aggressive plans against Armenia became possible in wake  of Pashinyan`s decisions on Artsakh - expert 

ArmInfo.Azerbaijan's aggressive plans against Armenia became possible solely as a result of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's decisions on the Artsakh issue. This was written on her Facebook page by Azerbaijani expert Tatevik  Hayrapetyan, amid Azerbaijan's active promotion of a false narrative  and vocal territorial claims regarding Armenia's sovereign  territories.

The expert expressed her conviction that by aggressively promoting a  state concept bearing the historically unspecified name "Western  Azerbaijan," the Azerbaijani leadership, in addition to its dangerous  occupational agenda, is also waging a moral and psychological war of  aggression against Armenians. In this regard, she recalled that days  earlier, on the direct orders of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev,  Azerbaijanis had gathered in Nakhichevan, where, nearly 20 years ago,  they had completely wiped the rich cultural heritage of Armenians off  the face of the earth.

"At this meeting, they called our state their 'homeland,' and then  renamed it 'Western Azerbaijan,' after which they became so brazen  that they posted a video from the streets of Yerevan and declared,  'Look, this is our land.' This absurdity is so vast and unbelievable  that sometimes you wonder: how is this possible? Then you return to  simple human logic and conclude that Azerbaijan is an aggressive and  genocidal state, which it has always been and remains. And for them,  propaganda of occupation and hatred against Armenia and Armenians is  as commonplace as drinking water," the Azerbaijani expert wrote.

At the same time, she noted that the current Armenian leadership had  increased these "appetites" with its concessions. "The collaborators  in power in Armenia, groveling before Aliyev, only increased his  appetite. The more they made concessions, the more dangerous  Azerbaijan became vis-a-vis our state," Hayrapetyan noted.

Meanwhile, according to the expert, during this meeting, Azerbaijani  Minister of Science and Education Emin Amrullayev bluntly stated:  "The issue of Western Azerbaijan is of strategic importance." In  other words, Hayrapetyan explained, this means that expansionist  plans against Armenia have become their new state strategy. "And this  became possible only after Pashinyan's decisions on the Artsakh  issue, as Azerbaijan would never have dared to make such a statement  before.

Moreover, Aliyev himself acknowledged this truth, stating that "it  was premature to talk about this before the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict  was resolved," the Azerbaijani expert noted.

Moreover, according to Hayrapetyan, since the introduction of this  aggressive concept on December 24, 2022, every diplomatic, political,  and informational means could have been used to make it a huge  headache for the Azerbaijani leadership-so much so that Aliyev would  regret using this term.

"Every opportunity for this was and is, but the current leadership,  instead of acting, is simply fighting against our identity, the  foundations of the state, the Declaration of Independence, the army,  Artsakh, the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), and national dignity,  in accordance with Aliyev's demands," the expert concluded.

Following the violent seizure of Artsakh, Azerbaijan began promoting  a new narrative about so-called "Western Azerbaijan." Thus, the  Azerbaijani authorities are attempting to advance the creeping  occupation of Armenia by Azerbaijanis, attempting to resettle  approximately 300,000 Azerbaijanis in Armenia. Moreover, at the  collapse of the USSR, fewer than 80,000 Azerbaijanis lived in  Armenia. These Azerbaijanis left Armenia voluntarily in the late  1990s, receiving compensation from the Armenian state for their  abandoned property, unlike the approximately 500,000 Armenians living  in Azerbaijan.  The latter fled Azerbaijan, trying to save their  lives amid pogroms, often naked.