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    ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENTARY DIPLOMACY SHOULD INITIATE N RECOGNITION OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH REPUBLIC: EXPERT

    /ARKA/
    July 27, 2010
    YEREVAN

    YEREVAN, July 27, /ARKA/. Karen Bekarian, head of a non-governmental
    organization, called European Integration, urged today Armenia's
    parliament to launch consultations with lawmakers from friendly
    countries on recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

    The United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled last
    Thursday to upheld the international legitimacy of Kosovo's secession
    from Serbia.

    Speaking at a news conference Karen Bekarian said the ICJ ruling is an
    important event creating a "new political situation" in the Karabakh
    conflict zone and opening large avenues for Armenian parliament
    and its standing committees as well as Armenian delegations to
    various international organizations to advocate the recognition of
    Nagorno-Karabakh.

    In his words, the ICJ ruling will have a certain impact on the future
    pace of the negotiations on the peaceful resolution of the conflict,
    but Armenia will be constrained in its moves. He said also Armenian
    civic society as well as tits vast Diaspora should have their say in
    this issue.

    The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh broke out in 1988 after the
    predominantly Armenian-populated enclave declared about secession
    from Azerbaijan As Azerbaijan declared its independence from the
    Soviet Union and removed the powers held by the enclave's government,
    the Armenian majority voted in 1991, December 10, to secede from
    Azerbaijan and in the process proclaimed the enclave the Republic
    of Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Full-scale fighting, initiated by Azerbaijan, erupted in the late
    winter of 1992. International mediation by several groups including
    Europe's OSCE's failed to bring an end resolution that both sides
    could work with. In the spring of 1993, Armenian forces captured
    regions outside the enclave itself. By the end of the war in 1994,
    the Armenians were in full control of most of the enclave and also
    held and currently control seven regions beyond the administrative
    borders of Nagorno-Karabakh.

    Almost 1 million people on both sides have been displaced as a result
    of the conflict. A Russian- -brokered ceasefire was signed in May
    1994 and peace talks, mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group, have been
    held ever since by Armenia and Azerbaijan.




    From: A. Papazian
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