The separatists, who are living out their last days under the protection of Russian peacekeepers in Khankendi, are desperate to maintain their power over the Karabakh Armenians. They kick them out of meetings, demand the resumption of uncontrolled movement along the Lachin Corridor, including weapons and fighters, and categorically reject the possibility of supplying Karabakh Armenians from the rest of Azerbaijan. The separatists cry "blockade" and "genocide" and try to "appease" the international community.

Those Armenians who are still held hostage by the separatists should ask themselves whether the proposals made to them by the Azerbaijani authorities are "genocide"? Especially in comparison with what the separatists and Armenian occupiers have done to the peaceful Azerbaijani population, Azerbaijani villages and towns, Azerbaijani holy places in Karabakh.

Questions for the Armenian community of Azerbaijan:

Azerbaijan offers the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh a normal, decent life and security guarantees. This was recently confirmed by the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, in an interview with Euronews. Thus, Azerbaijan is ready to forgive its citizens of Armenian nationality a lot, knowing that they were drugged by nationalist propaganda and were hostages of occupiers and separatists.

But Armenians themselves should remember the crimes committed during the aggression and occupation. First of all, in order to realise how generous Azerbaijan's current offers are to them, to those whom Azerbaijan considers its citizens. Although deceived and misguided.

Azerbaijan offers the Karabakh Armenians all the rights and opportunities of its citizens. The Armenians of Karabakh should respond to these offers, start integrating into the peaceful life of a united Azerbaijan and stop demanding the preservation of an ugly separatist enclave that brings nothing but new wars, disasters and sorrow to both Azerbaijanis and Armenians.

George Mazniashvili