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supposition that the Parties to the conflict are responsible actors, not
self-righteous bandits or terrorist gangs. It is now too late to
disseminate the law and educate them. Moreover, once the
disintegration process sets on, the previously educated ones regress
so much that they abandon the minimum restraint and scruple.
Recently, we talk about preventive diplomacy. To be serious and to
be taken seriously, we have to see to it that the present conflicts be
justly resolved in the first place. If an aggression which trampled upon
every possible rule of international humanitarian law is crowned with
success at internationally organized peace negotiations, how could we
expect future aggressors to be deterred by our preventive diplomacy
This is the case in point in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and this is what is
unfolding in Karabagh region of Azerbaijan.
What do we want to prevent exactly Aren’t we or our human
rights circles supporting all over the world ethnic struggles in the
name of defending ethnic rights What do we expect from ethnic
terrorists: respect for human rights and humanitarian law
Today, most of the armed conflicts, international or national, are
increasingly fought with resort to prohibited methods which amount
to terrorism, regardless of the size and structure of the forces.
Terrorism came to be condoned, if not justified, for influential
human rights circles think that terrorism is a response, a painful but
inevitable is quite active in countries with democratic regimes and
developed economies. As a result, we grew accustomed to seeing
atrocious scenes created by a prohibited warfare. We turn blind eye
on countries which fuel ethnic conflicts, provide arms, training
ground and sanctuaries to terrorists be they called guerrilla, militia
or armed force.
I am afraid that, with this frame of mind which does not favour
multi-ethnic solutions to problems, we may exacerbate tensions
rather than prevent them from getting out of hand.
Therefore, I humbly suggest that we seize of this opportunity
which has been so generously offered to us by the Swiss Government
to initiate an introspective analysis as much as we try to restore
order to the outside world. Luckily we may discover that we are also
part of the problem, and that we have to change ourselves before we
change others.
Thank you.
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