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Lragir
Oct 9 2007
Armenia
What are the thoughts of Armen Ashotyan, young Republican, on the
statement by a younger Republican but more experienced activist
Serge Sargsyan in Moscow that Armenia must recognize Azerbaijan's
territorial integrity, and Azerbaijan must recognize the right of NKR
for self-determination. The reporters stood a chance to learn Armen
Ashotyan's opinion on October 9 at the Tesaket press club.
"I am sorry but I think turning the statement about the territorial
integrity into a political show is at least political illiteracy,
let alone ill-mindedness, because according to the international
law and regulations by which Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are guided
through the process of international recognition of NKR, the issue
of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan has nothing to do with the
right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh for self-determination,"
Armen Ashotyan says.
Does this issue have anything to do with the territories which are
referred to as liberated or occupied, or are viewed as a security area,
the reporters asked Armen Ashotyan?
"Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was proclaimed in the Nagorno-Karabakh
Autonomous Region of the former Soviet Union and the region of
Shahumyan. If you remember the provision of the NKR Constitution,
NKR was proclaimed in the territory which it controls. Here the
opinions of Azerbaijani, the UN and international lawyers are placed
inferior to the right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic for
self-determination. Azerbaijan says it cannot hold a referendum in one
territory because according to its Constitution, a referendum must
be held all over the republic. The government of Nagorno-Karabakh
can make legal decisions regarding its society.
Maybe the problem of a new referendum is there, the problems may
solve but not fully, but the minimum space will be maintained which
is essential to national security," Armen Ashotyan says.
According to him, the issue cannot be manipulated. Ashotyan says Serge
Sargsyan spelled out our arguments of the de jure formulation of the
de facto problem.
Lragir
Oct 9 2007
Armenia
What are the thoughts of Armen Ashotyan, young Republican, on the
statement by a younger Republican but more experienced activist
Serge Sargsyan in Moscow that Armenia must recognize Azerbaijan's
territorial integrity, and Azerbaijan must recognize the right of NKR
for self-determination. The reporters stood a chance to learn Armen
Ashotyan's opinion on October 9 at the Tesaket press club.
"I am sorry but I think turning the statement about the territorial
integrity into a political show is at least political illiteracy,
let alone ill-mindedness, because according to the international
law and regulations by which Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh are guided
through the process of international recognition of NKR, the issue
of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan has nothing to do with the
right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh for self-determination,"
Armen Ashotyan says.
Does this issue have anything to do with the territories which are
referred to as liberated or occupied, or are viewed as a security area,
the reporters asked Armen Ashotyan?
"Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was proclaimed in the Nagorno-Karabakh
Autonomous Region of the former Soviet Union and the region of
Shahumyan. If you remember the provision of the NKR Constitution,
NKR was proclaimed in the territory which it controls. Here the
opinions of Azerbaijani, the UN and international lawyers are placed
inferior to the right of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic for
self-determination. Azerbaijan says it cannot hold a referendum in one
territory because according to its Constitution, a referendum must
be held all over the republic. The government of Nagorno-Karabakh
can make legal decisions regarding its society.
Maybe the problem of a new referendum is there, the problems may
solve but not fully, but the minimum space will be maintained which
is essential to national security," Armen Ashotyan says.
According to him, the issue cannot be manipulated. Ashotyan says Serge
Sargsyan spelled out our arguments of the de jure formulation of the
de facto problem.