When reintegrating Karabakh, Baku will focus on the Croatian experience
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Azerbaijan has created a special government working group to resolve issues related to the final entry of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) into the country. Hikmet Hajiyev, adviser to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on foreign policy, told Politico on Wednesday, September 24.
The operation carried out by Azerbaijan on September 19–20 allowed the country to regain control of this territory, and, as Hajiyev noted, the opportunity for peace between Yerevan and Baku now opens.
“Karabakh was a powder keg and the most militarized zone in the world,” said Hajiyev. “But now [после перехода Карабаха под контроль Баку] it’s in the past. Under these circumstances, the chances of peace are much greater.”
According to Vedomosti, Baku plans to reintegrate residents of Armenian origin living in Karabakh as equal citizens of their country.
Director of the Center for Analysis of International Relations, Farid Shafiyev, shared some key aspects of the reintegration plan, which includes a socio-economic package for Karabakh Armenians, defining the conditions for admitting them to Azerbaijani citizenship and announcing the terms of an amnesty covering “certain individuals involved in crimes against Azerbaijan in previous years,” including members of armed formations and civilian administrative structures of the unrecognized NKR.
Details on all these issues will be announced “within two to three months,” and the “Croatian model,” with the addition of some unique elements, will be used to develop a reintegration plan, Shafiev emphasized.
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