Azerbaijan, Baku, March 28 / Trend M. Aliyev /
The military parade, which the Armenians intend to hold in Shusha, will become another laughingstock, Azerbaijani MP Aydin Mirzazade told Trend today.
"The parade, which Armenia held in Yerevan last September, was frivolous and ill-prepared show," he said. "In such a situation, one can not call the event, planned to be held in the Azerbaijani occupied lands with disorganized, poorly equipped Armenian Army, as a parade."
Armenia wants to show its citizens that the claims to Nagorno-Karabakh are still on the agenda and that Karabakh is under Armenian occupation, Mirzazade added.
"But the Armenian people are interested in the solution to everyday social issues, security and integration into the global community, rather than the claims of field commanders - natives of Karabakh," he said.
The MP said Armenia has little time to continue ignoring the international community's opinion with impunity.
"First of all, Armenia harms itself by its policy," he said. "Today Armenian statehood itself acquired as a result of some historical chance faces a big threat."
Mirzazade stressed that Yerevan demonstrates the impossibility of peaceful coexistence on the rules of the international community.
Armenian media disseminated the information about the intention to hold a military parade involving Armenian ground forces and air forces in the Azerbaijani occupied town of Shusha on May 9.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 per cent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France and the U.S. - are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.