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    TESSA HOFMANN: NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED BY A NEUTRAL STATE
    By Kim Gabrielian in Stepanakert

    AZG Armenian Daily
    27/06/2006

    International workshop entitled "Nagorno Karabakh Republic: Its Past,
    Present and Future" was scheduled to end on June 24 but it was closed
    a day earlier.

    Prior to the final session workshop participants called a press
    conference to summarize results of the three-day meeting. Kamo Atanian,
    NKR minister of education, culture and sport, stated in his speech
    that the workshop is a unique event in independent Artsakh and that
    it's the first time such a workshop is held here. In his words, the
    workshop evidenced that NKR exists as a country that independently
    forges its statehood, which is able to defend its borders alone and
    develop its economy and culture. He thanked all those who contributed
    to workshop's success.

    Aram Simonian, rector of Yerevan State University, thinks that the
    workshop showed that Artsakh is not only a center of resistance
    but also a center of science and culture. The rector expressed that
    young participants were not active during the conference. He also
    emphasized that henceforth such workshops should be held using the
    local scientific potential as outsiders can only play the role of
    a detonator.

    Simonian thinks that the Stepanakert workshop cannot directly
    contribute to the international recognition of NKR but can create
    an environment for the correct perception of the issue by the world
    community and also serve as propaganda.

    All speeches made at the workshop will be published in a book and
    distributed to the public for the people to know the opinions
    voiced there, education and culture minister said. Besides, an
    announcement-document will be prepared to hand the international
    structures.

    Asked by daily Azg to comment on her earlier statement that it's vital
    for NKR that at least one state recognizes its independence, famous
    German political scientist Tessa Hofmann said that she first of all
    means the international structures engaged in Karabakh regulation. For
    the world community itself it will be very weighty that any powerful
    state recognizes NKR.

    Asked whether NKR's recognition by Armenia will have a positive
    impact, Mrs. Hofmann said no reminding the example of Northern
    Cyprus. "Recognition by an interested state can even have an opposite
    effect.

    It's necessary that a neutral state takes this step," she said.

    Undoubtedly, the Stepanakert workshop was a significant event
    in Nagorno Karabakh regulation process. We expect that it will be
    adequately evaluated abroad. It seems that the international scientific
    thought has created ground for the right legal approaches to the issue.
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