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    Edward Nalbandian: In response to Karabakh people's free expression of
    will Azerbaijan started the large-scale military actions and ethnic
    cleansing


    2011-01-29 10:12:00


    ArmInfo. "It was the decision of the Caucasian Bureau of the Bolshevik
    Party that made Karabakh part of Azerbaijan. Of course the population
    and people of Nagorno-Karabakh did not agree with that decision. But
    the Soviet leaders replied that they did not have any borders between
    the states - there were only territorial- administrative borders, we
    all lived in one country. But during the collapse of the USSR the
    people of Nagorno-Karabakh organized a referendum and 99,89% percent
    of population voted for the
    independence," Edward Nalbandian, Foreign Minister of Armenia, says in
    an interview with Russia Today TV.

    He recalled that before that, on the 26th of November 1991, the
    Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan liquidated the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomy
    as a national and territorial entity.

    "In two days time the Constitutional Supervision Committee of the USSR
    - it still existed back then - condemned that decision. The referendum
    took place almost two or three weeks later, in December. The voting
    showed that not just majority, but almost all the people were for
    Nagorno-Karabakh's independence. In response to that, Azerbaijan
    started the large-scale military actions and ethnic cleansing both in
    Karabakh and other settlements of Azerbaijan. Actually, it was an
    aggression against Karabakh," he says.

    The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out on February 28 1988 in the
    Azerbaijani Sumgait with massacre of Armenians as a peculiar response
    of Azerbaijanis to the peaceful demand of the Nagorno-Karabakh
    autonomous Region, part of the Azerbaijani SSR, to unite with the
    Armenian SSR. This resulted in other pogroms of Armenians in Baku,
    Kirovabad and other regions of Azerbaijan populated with Armenians. In
    1991 Azerbaijan unleashed war against peaceful populations of
    Nagorno-Karabakh, expulsing ethnic Armenians from the territory of
    Azerbaijan. Dozens of thousands of peaceful residents on both parties
    were killed in the military actions, and hundreds of thousands were
    left homeless and have become refugees. In 1994 in Bishkek in
    mediation of the OSCE MG, the NKR, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a
    Protocol on Ceasefire that is observed more or less so far.




    From: A. Papazian
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