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    ARMENIANS' CHANCES TO LEGITIMIZE SECESSION LOW AFTER COURT'S OPINION ON KOSOVO

    news.az
    July 28 2010
    Azerbaijan

    Vugar Seyidov The International Court has passed a legally correct
    opinion.

    AzerTAj reports that the statement came from political reviewer
    Vugar Seyidov.

    "On the one hand, he did not confirm the fact of irreversible change
    in the territory of Serbia and did not state the appearance of a new
    state-Kosovo. The court just stated that the declaration of Kosovo
    independence is not prohibited, since international law does not have
    either a ban or permission to adopt declaration with no sense.

    They are without sense because the Court did not even consider the
    issues on legal implications of the adoption of declaration and
    refused to answer the question whether a new state appeared in the
    Balkans in the result of this declaration (see article 51 of the Court
    decision). The court was just answering the question set by the UN
    General Assembly recognizing only the narrowness of its frames. The
    court did not go beyond the frames of the question. Therefore, when
    Armenian Defense Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan says that the
    court "has shown that the right for self-determination is primary
    while territorial integrity is aimed to serve this primary goal",
    he is demonstrating his incompetence to the world about which we
    have no objections. The court even did not consider the issue of
    self-determination and territorial integrity. Any competent person will
    see it after getting familiar with the text of the Court's opinion.

    "On the other hand, the states which decided to recognize Kosovo
    have supported the victim of the conflict-the people that suffered
    the deportation from native lands and physical termination. Civilized
    world has demonstrated that it does not intend to reconcile with rule
    violations of human rights and forgive grave crimes such as ethnic
    cleansing, termination of civil population, shooting of refugees,
    looting, plunder and so on.

    But it is really important in the resolution of the Court that
    article 81 says clearly that in definite cases when independence is
    declared on the background of crimes against humanity, aggression,
    ethnic cleansing, genocide and steps on unilateral proclamation of
    independence may even be condemned. There is no need to prove that
    proclamation of independence by Armenian separatists was accompanied by
    all these crimes, plus aggression and occupation by Armenia, policy of
    illegal settlement of occupied lands and factual annexation of Nagorno
    Karabakh by Armenia. Thus, the Court's decision on Kosovo creates
    a brilliant precedent for condemnation of unilateral declaration of
    Karabakh independence.

    Armenia considers that the chances of Karabakh Armenians for
    independence have increased after the resolution of the Hague Court
    on Kosovo. But I think they have even dropped!", Seyidov said.




    From: A. Papazian
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