Elkhan Suleymanov: “james Warlick is Distinguished With Sharing His “fantastic” and Crazy “ideas” on Social Networks Since His Appointment of A Co-chair From Usa to Osce Minsk Group”

“Mr. James Warlick is distinguished with sharing his “fantastic” and crazy “ideas” on social networks since his appointment of a Co-Chair from USA to OSCE Minsk Group. The USA Co-Chair of Minsk Group again achieved to take a “worthy” place on the center of attention. Thus, Mr. James Warlick has recently visited the region together with other Co-Chairs of Minsk Group. They visited Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia and met “head” of the separatist regime formed by the aggressor state. Mr. Warlick again preferred to get distinguished from his colleagues and shared his “genius” idea on social network. He placed the photo of Sarsang reservoir in his account and wrote: “This is Sarsang reservoir. It would be a positive step if the parties were able to use the resources of water.” Thus, the opinion of the American co-chair is clear: he calls on the aggressor and Azerbaijan, subject to occupation, to commonly use Sarsang reservoir”, said Elkhan Suleymanov, President of ACSDA, Chairman of the Azerbaijani Delegation to the Euronest, a member of the Azerbaijani Parliament.

“I would like to remind that 20% of our territories, including Nagorno Karabakh and 7 surrounding regions, have been occupied by Armenia for about 25 years. Several buildings of strategic importance are in the occupied territories. One of them is Sarsang reservoir.

The technical equipments are in an emergency condition due to lack of maintenance as a result of occupation of Sarsang reservoir. Thus, Sarsang reservoir is very likely to collapse due to natural disaster, technical and deliberate diversion. Any diversion, technogeneous or natural disaster is much likely to lead to ecological crisis, as well as mass casualties of 400 000 civilians living in frontier regions, and a new humanitarian catastrophe; this threat gradually becomes real.

Moreover, the aggressor opens the water from Sarsang reservoir in winter; thus, the lands are flooded, and roads erode. And in summer when people and agriculture mostly need water, they stop the water. Consequently, agriculture of frontier regions was seriously hampered, problems arose in the irrigation of farmlands, greenery dried, persistent processes occurred in biological structure of the land, and serious ecological tension emerged in the region.

Therefore, the Association for Civil Society Development (ACSDA) launched a wide-scale project on Sarsang reservoir since May of 2013. The organization made critical efforts to bring to the agenda of...