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    NAGORNO KARABAKH AND AZERBAIJAN CELEBRATING THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE
    Tatul Hakobyan

    "Radiolur"
    31.08.2006 13:52

    On September 2 Nagorno Karabakh will celebrate the 15th anniversary
    of declaration of independence. Although the international community
    does not intend to recognize the second Armenian state de jure,
    i.e. legally. De facto it has been already recognized. Even in case
    Nagorno Karabakh is not recognized in the coming 15 years, this will
    not devalue the historical decision adopted September 2, 1991.

    August 19-21 the attempt to dethrone the President of the Soviet
    Union Mikhail Gorbacjev failed. It seems that the above-mentioned
    circumstance is not immediacy linked to the remote regions of the
    empire in decline, particularly to Azerbaijan, the part of which
    Nagorno Karabakh comprised then.

    August 19 Azerbaijani leader of that time Ayaz Mutalibov was on a
    visit to Iran. Learning about the coup in Moscow, Mutalibov expressed
    his conformity to the rebels. His Adviser Vafa Guluzadeh retrieves
    that he was advising Mutalibov to refuse from comments on the Moscow
    events before his return to Baku.

    The Azerbaijani leader, however, did not follow the advice and did
    not refuse from criticizing Gorbachev's policy.

    A few days later, however, the attempt of the coup in Moscow failed and
    the rebels were arrested. The failed rebellion, however, accelerated
    the unevitable collapse of the Soviet Union.

    August 30 in a special session the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan
    adopted the declaration of independence within the borders of the
    1918-1920 Democratic or Musavat Republic of Azerbaijan. September
    2 the Regional Council of Nagorno Karabakh and the District Council
    of Shahumyan held a joint sitting in Stepanakert, during which the
    declaration of independence within the borders of Nagorno Karabakh
    and Shahumyan regions.

    September 8 Mutalibov was elected the President of Azerbaijan. Only 12
    percent of the voters in Nagorno Karabakh, i.e. only the Azerbaijanis,
    participated in the elections.

    >>From the legal perspective Azerbaijan seceded from the Soviet
    Union on the same basis that Nagorno-Karabakh seceded from
    Azerbaijan. Besides, on August 30 the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan
    adopted the Declaration of Independence within the borders of
    1918-1920 Musavat Republic of Azerbaijan. Therefore, today's Azerbaijan
    considers itself the successor of the Musavat Republic. And it deserves
    attention that in 1918-1920 Nagorno Karabakh did not comprise part of
    Azerbaijan. Moreover, the League of Nations never recognized Azerbaijan
    de jure, considering the fact that the Musavats were laying claims
    on disputable Armenian territories, particularly Karabakh.

    Nevertheless, if the League of Nations refused to recognize Nagorno
    Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, then the Soviet or Bolshevik Russia
    divided not only Karabakh but also other Armenian territories between
    Azerbaijan and Turkey.

    Actually, with the establishment of the Soviet Union we lost not only
    our statehood, but also what is the most important - the original
    Armenian lands.

    On September 2, 1991 one of the segments separated from the Armenian
    people the Artsakhi Armenians - corrected one of the crimes of
    Bolshevik Russia and Ottoman Turkey.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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