Again, in the European countries, some injustice has been demonstrated against us, either the Netherlands, Belgium, or both at the same time have issued decisions or the like against Azerbaijan in their parliaments, specifically on the Nagorno-Karabakh topic. Honestly, I thought such decisions and resolutions were things of the past.
Firstly, the time has come when even the Armenians themselves understand that the train has left, peace talks are being held, and sooner or later people are preparing to buy tickets for the Yerevan train. In this situation, what is the point of digging into an old saddle, or picking at a festering wound? Or to put it sharply, it turns out that the dog is pawing, but the moth isn’t pawing back.
Secondly, the current geopolitical flow of the world has brought humanity to a level where not only some parliamentary decisions, but even interstate agreements and UN resolutions have no more value than toilet paper. They change decisions 180 degrees within an hour, friends become enemies, allies become hostile, and peoples once close turn bloody; dog-fighting happens even between brotherly states. As they say, "in such conditions," if they want to pass seven resolutions against us all at once—why should we care? At most, it will cost us a few barrels of oil and two or three kilos of caviar, and the matter will be closed.
However, an episode of the traditional National Assembly protests against these recent resolutions caught my eye, and I felt somewhat saddened, because our esteemed opposition deputy Erkin teacher had risen to the tribune to respond to the Netherlands and Belgium. It turns out that Erkin teacher is a member of the friendship group with those very Netherlands people in our National Assembly. Some deputies were even throwing words from the floor to tease Erkin teacher, suggesting to dissolve the group and boycott trips and so on. They want Erkin teacher to never be able to go to Amsterdam again. There are many bad people in our world.
By the way, these Europeans should not overstep their limits; in our deputies’ administration, there used to be even harsher representatives. For example, in the 1990s, when representatives of the German parliament came to Baku, a deputy who was a member of our friendship group with that faction once said in a meeting: "These oppositionists, Gambarov Isa and Karimov Ali, are worse than German fascists!" Interesting times indeed, translators had many amusing days back then.
Now I want to write that Erkin teacher is not such a successful option to respond to the Netherlands. Experience shows this. For example, once at an opposition rally when he was given the floor, he made a speech resembling that of Şaban, the character played by Turkish actor Kemal Sunal in the 1979 film "Ümidimiz Şaban": "Now, why I went up here, why I came up here, how I came up here, no explanation is needed, you saw it, I just got up and went up, but maybe I did not get up."
I'm not meaning it negatively; Erkin Qadirli is a highly enlightened and well-spirited figure to respond to external black forces. Do we not have heavier weapons?
In the Netherlands themselves, by the way, we have good cadres. My dear friend Hikmat Bey recently wrote and sent me this story.
An Azerbaijani seeking asylum in the Netherlands tried all avenues, and then pretended to be insane so that they would not send him back or deport him to Azerbaijan. However, the administration's doctor suspected a trick and frequently conducted monitoring in the asylum camp. One day, when our compatriot went to meet a woman dressed beautifully and holding a bouquet of flowers, the doctor caught him on the street and asked where he was going. Our local said: "My late mother appeared in my dream and said come to the lakeside at such and such time, I will come out of the water, and we will meet..."
The doctor expressed this, soothed him, slowly pressed the button in his pocket, called the brigade, took the compatriot to the hospital, and thus the brother’s matter was resolved.
Why does a government and community with such a talented diaspora trouble Erkin teacher?