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    ARFD CONDEMNS STATEMENT BY PACE RAPPORTEUR ON KARABAKH


    YEREVAN, JANUARY 28. ARMINFO. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation
    Dashnaktsoutyun party considers inadmissible the statement by PACE
    rapporteur on Karabakh David Atkinson that the principle of a nation's
    self-determination right is not applicable to the Karabakh people,
    says ARFD member, parliamentary vice speaker Vahan Hovhannissyan.

    Especially inadmissible is the statement that "if Azerbaijan agrees to
    Karabakh's independence PACE will not object." This is in fact a call
    on Azerbaijan to toughen its position in the Karabakh
    issue. Hovhannissyan says that ARFD warned that Atkinson's report
    might be biased as he "reeks of oil" and that Armenia should do its
    best to invalidate this report. "One should not underestimate the
    factor of Azeri oil and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in the Karabakh
    issue," says Hovhannissyan noting that his statements do not refer to
    the British government but its cdertain officials.

    Commenting on the acknowledgement of Azerbaijan's territorial
    integrity by some states Hovhanissyan says that this principle is more
    clearly formulated than that of a nation's self-determination and
    that's why the international community prefers the former to the
    latter. That's exactly why Armenia should not react to such statements
    so acutely. "We should stay immune to such statements. Armenia too
    recognizes Azerbaijan's territorial integrity but without Karabakh who
    has never been part of independent Azerbaijan," says Hovhannissyan.
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