Azerbaijan has chosen the path of war | Conflict Zone

Armenia and Azerbaijan trade accusations as more die in fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia’s foreign minister, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, tells Conflict Zone Baku has chosen the path of war and Turkey is a force for destabilization.

Chapters Info

00:12 Intro
01:32 Armenia's responsibility for fighting
04:01 Both sides are accusing eachother
05:35 We will fight till the end
08:00 Poisonous rhetoric
09:25 NK is Armenia
11:45 Road to Karabakh
13:00 90,000 people are displaced
15:45 Claims from Azerbaijan are preposterous
16:45 Is territory more important than peace
18:25 Harsh reality
20:00 Missed opportunity
22:25 Turkey has been the destablizing force
23:30 Azerbaijan is a terrorist hub
25:27 Credits

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[sanankazimov]

Armenian Government:

- Azerbaijan attacked Armenia!
- Yerevan?
- No, Karabakh.
- Is Karabakh Armenian territory?
- No, it's an independent country!
- Who recognizes Karabakh as a country?
- Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia.
- Are there such countries?
- Yes.
- Who recognizes them?
- Nicaragua and Nauri.
- How is Karabakh recognized by official countries and international organizations?
- As part of Azerbaijan.
- Does Armenia recognize Karabakh as an independent country or as part of Armenia?
- No.
- So then no one attacked Armenia?
- Yeah, but Azerbaijan is killing Armenian soldiers!
- But if Karabakh is not part of Armenia what are Armenian soldiers doing in Karabakh?
- These are Armenians who live in Karabakh and they formed their own army.
- So, basically, they are unlawful separatists of a region that no one recognizes as legitimate?
- But there are also soldiers from Armenia who are helping them.

So, verdict: Armenian Army together with unlawfully formed militia are occupied Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territories and keeping under occupation. Got it?

[smyrnianlink]

According to the Armenian model the English people should move back to Germany and give their island back to Celts.

[ramilrex]

pure and simple - the worst answers by any politician I have seen in a long while - what a fiasco!

[elkhanaliev]

The whole point of the conversation: the occupier denies, deflects, makes up lies, falsely accuses, blames the other side for an attempt to liberate its territories.

[jarveyjaguar]

Dude didn't answer a single question
Azerbaijan this Azerbaijan that
he makes it sound as if Armenians were angles

[lalaorujova]

DW team, I highly appreciate your objective interview, that obviously shows weaknesses and inconsistency of Armenian policy which totally destroys and discredit Armeniya itself and its relationship with all counties of the world. Hopefully, armeniyans who believes in their invincibility will turn around taking out virus of "being great and ancient nation" and totally change their behaviour starting constructive actions to be observed. There is nothing precious but life of each human being!!

[sarooshbrian]

Leave occupation and war crimes let everyone live in peace, is so.strange Armenia asking help to keep occupation !!!!?

[aj]

The legend says that Sarah Kally (the host) still waits for an answer on 1 of her many questions

[rm]

So, in simple words:
Someone breaks into your house and claims ownership for 3 rooms saying that his son lived in one of them. Then that person says he wants to add these rooms to his house and that is that.
And when you try to free your house after asking to rule out the problem peacefully for 30 years that person says that he always been peaceful and just want to make sure the rooms he took over are safe.
Does it really make sense?

[nijathajiyev]

Thank you DW team for asking the right questions! I wonder what Mr Mnatsakanyan thinks of more than 700, 000 internally displaced people in Azerbaijan? Don't they have any right to live in their homes?

[Biotikus]

This is a excellent example when you have nothing to say, but keeping or trying to answer to questions.. Armenia occupied internationally recognized Azerbaijani territories, now want status -quo.. ceasfire..peace..;-). Is so simple, just give back territories then will be peace in the region.

[malayatable]

shame on you armenians..!!!why in 1992 you Armenians want to separate from Azerbaijan If you live under the rule of Azerbaijan in Karabah, this war will not happen .. you started fighting the Azerbaijani people and want to join the Armenian country, you also expelled the Azeri people .. is a province of Azerbaijan.

[shamshuseynova]

Thank you Sarah! Thank you for telling the truth and not believing this LIAR!!! They killed a lot of Azerbaijani people in 1992-1993. And now as Azerbaijan is strong they don’t know what to do. Anyway, Azerbaijan will liberate all occupied territories. 🇦🇿 🇹🇷

[hassannaseeb]

The minister said in interview, "Armenia's Nagorno Karabakh" but the problem is Nagorno Karabakh is a conflicted area. First the Armenia should return 7 occupied azeri (azerbeijan) district then resolve the issue of Nagorna karabakh with Azerbaijan. Those districts are not Armenia's or Nagorna Karabakh part, how can you justify occupying them and then crying for Nagorna Karabakh.

[pineapplesareyummy]

Last I checked, the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh lies ENTIRELY WITHIN THE BORDERS OF AZERBAIJAN. How can Azerbaijan choose the "path of war" when it is Armenia that has sent troops inside Azeri territory? Notice even Russia, which has a defense treaty with Armenia, is not backing Armenia but is instead calling for peaceful resolution. And that's correct: Armenia is the one that's occupying the territory of another country, so their war is not defensive and Russia is under no obligations to intervene on its behalf.

[aj]

I: Do you want peace
M: Yes
I: But you are making 3 clear provocative action
M: We are going to continue on doing them
I: Bit than you lose and you cry
M: Yeah that's our policy

[joey]

I really like this confrontational journalism style and DW should keep doing this as it's the only of its kind from Europe that plays harsh.

[azerxeyrullayev]

Give me this girl, I want to hug her :)

[tair]

He didn’t even really answer any question ....

[anardadashov]

I would talk better than this guy 😃 he basically failed to answer all the questions. This is how it works when you are totally wrong on one situation. 🇦🇿