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    Karabakh settlement options

    Yerkir/arm
    01 April 05

    Below is the speech made by Armen Rustamian, Chairman of National
    Assembly's Standing Committee on International Relations, in the
    parliamentary hearings on Karabakh conflict settlement.

    The doctrine must generalize the approaches of the Armenian side on
    the ways for solving the Karabakh issue. It can be divided into three
    elements: principles, upon which main positions are based; goal,
    which must be the result of the whole process; and strategy, which
    must be fully complied with adopted principles and the developments
    of the conflict.

    Principle or basis

    Full and not limited implementation of self-determination right
    in terms of solution of the Karabagh issue and settlement of the
    conflict. The needed and sufficient arguments for the principle
    are: - Affirmation of realizing not on the lands of metropolis but
    on own lands, since Karabakh has never been a part of independent
    Azerbaijan, - Legal realization of the self-determination process in
    compliance with international standards and USSR actual legislation,
    - Impossibility to realize Azerbaijanâ~@~Ys territorial integrity
    with inclusion of Karabakh , since, first, Karabakh has never been a
    part of independent Azerbaijan, - Unrejectable right of the people of
    Karabakh for both self-determination, and forming and possessing their
    own authorities, - Azerbaijan has lost its right for Karabakh gained by
    the illegal decision of the Caucasian bureau in 1921 and conditioned
    solely by the existence of USSR. This is mainly due to inability and
    unwillingness to respect human rights, secure inter-ethnic peace,
    democratic governance and regional stability.

    In addition, as a result of decades long ethnic cleansing policy,
    the Armenian populated autonomous republic of Nakhichevan has been
    depopulated of Armenians.

    Under the Soviet dictatorship, the original territories of the
    autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh shrank and were reduced. In
    response to peaceful and legal demands of the Karabakh Armenians,
    Azerbaijani authorities organized the Sumgait massacres, dissolved
    the autonomy (which was already independent), and, as a continuation,
    launched a massive war on the people of Karabakh . - Eventually,
    Azerbaijan, first in its declaration of independence (30.08.91),
    and later in constitutional act on independence declared its state
    to be in frames of 1918 borders, thus factually renouncing the USSR
    inclusion of Karabakh into its territory.

    Goals or results expected from the doctrine

    Implementation of the self-determination right. This can take place
    on two level: international recognition of Karabakh â~@~Ys right for
    self-determination or adoption of a proper peace agreement, which must
    include at least the following aspects: Status of Karabakh , due and
    sufficient security guarantees, issues of refugees and territories,
    as mutually needed aspects, and prescription of Armeniaâ~@~Ys role
    as a guarantor.

    An important statement is that implementation of the self-determination
    right may have two logical results: establishment of state independence
    or reunion with Armenia, but can by no means be stipulation of
    highest extent of autonomy within Azerbaijan, since it is based on
    implementation of the national minority right inside a metropolis.

    --Boundary_(ID_pur/OMyDIELd9hgrtngvxg)--
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