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STATE DEPT. AGAIN UNDERMINES PROSPECTS FOR KARABAKH RESOLUTION
asbarez
Friday, May 25th, 2012
US State Department
Annual Human Rights Report seeks to prejudice the outcome of
international status and security talks
WASHINGTON-The State Department, in its recently released annual report
on human rights, undermined prospects for a negotiated settlement of
the very status and security issues it is helping to mediate regarding
Nagorno Karabakh, by again seeking to pre-judge the final status of
Nagorno Karabakh in accord with Baku's undemocratic demands, reported
the Armenian National Committee of America.
The annual report, in language reflected in both its sections
on Armenia and Azerbaijan, asserts that: "Ethnic Armenian
separatists, with Armenia's support, continued to control most of
the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the country and seven surrounding
Azerbaijani territories."
"With a short sentence, remarkably long on errors of both fact and
bias, the State Department risks rolling back the cause of democracy
and self-determination a half a century or more," said Aram Hamparian,
Executive Director of the ANCA. "By this standard, few if any of the
more than 80 states that have joined the U.N. over the past fifty years
would have been allowed entry into the community of free nations."
asbarez
Friday, May 25th, 2012
US State Department
Annual Human Rights Report seeks to prejudice the outcome of
international status and security talks
WASHINGTON-The State Department, in its recently released annual report
on human rights, undermined prospects for a negotiated settlement of
the very status and security issues it is helping to mediate regarding
Nagorno Karabakh, by again seeking to pre-judge the final status of
Nagorno Karabakh in accord with Baku's undemocratic demands, reported
the Armenian National Committee of America.
The annual report, in language reflected in both its sections
on Armenia and Azerbaijan, asserts that: "Ethnic Armenian
separatists, with Armenia's support, continued to control most of
the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the country and seven surrounding
Azerbaijani territories."
"With a short sentence, remarkably long on errors of both fact and
bias, the State Department risks rolling back the cause of democracy
and self-determination a half a century or more," said Aram Hamparian,
Executive Director of the ANCA. "By this standard, few if any of the
more than 80 states that have joined the U.N. over the past fifty years
would have been allowed entry into the community of free nations."