THE KARABAKH CONFLICT AS AN IMPORTANT SECURITY ISSUE IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS

Abstract

It was very difficult for the newly independent Republic of Azerbaijan to formulate its national
security policy, as well as to define specific security criteria and other criteria within the general
security issues of the region in the 1990s. Because, on the eve of the last years of the Soviet Union,
incitement of ethnic separatism in its territory and the occupation of its lands by Armenia and so
on.
Issues such as foreign military intervention and national security were added to the list of problems
of nation-building that Azerbaijan has just begun.
Over the past thirty years, the Republic of Azerbaijan has demonstrated a principled position to
ensure its territorial integrity and national security, as well as increased the economic and military
power of our country and its international political prestige.
In modern times, with the help of President Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan, as a key player in the South
Caucasus region, is pursuing an independent foreign policy in difficult and complicated geopolitical
conditions, improving its economic system and taking consistent and systematic steps to ensure
regional security.
As a result of Armenia's policy of aggression, as well as its foreign policy, it has been left out of all
regional projects. Recently, Yerevan's foreign policy has been failing on a regional scale. Because,
Armenia has not been formed as a fool state and is completely dependent on external forces. In this
regard, the geopolitical specificity of the situation in the South Caucasus stems from the fact that
Armenia poses a threat to the well being, security and sovereignty of neighboring countries in this
region. The geopolitical dynamics in the South Caucasus are extremely negatively affected by the
Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. However, by ending the Second Karabakh
War with Victory, the Azerbaijani state restored its territorial integrity.