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    SITUATION IN KARABAKH 'MIRROR IMAGE OF KOSOVO' - ANALYST

    news.az
    July 27 2010
    Azerbaijan

    Svante Cornell The situation in Nagorno-Karabakh is in many ways
    a mirror image of Kosovo, strongly weakening the separatists' case
    for independence.

    Svante E.Cornell, research director at the Central Asia-Caucasus
    Institute in Washington DC, believes that the International Court
    of Justice ruling on Kosovo's secession from Serbia may have been
    misunderstood.

    "There may not be anything illegal in terms of international law in
    a declaration of independence; it would violate the law of the mother
    country, in this case Serbia. But that a declaration of independence
    is not illegal does not mean that it is recognized by the rest of
    the world," Svante Cornell said in an interview with APA news agency.

    He said that the case of Nagorno-Karabakh was very different:
    "One difference is the extent of human rights violations and the
    changes in population structure. In the case of Kosovo, there was
    ethnic cleansing committed against Kosovars by Serbia, which is what
    triggered multilateral international intervention under the NATO
    umbrella. Thus, international intervention restored the demographic
    status before the war.

    "In the cases of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Nagorno-Karabakh,
    the situation is very different...There was massive ethnic cleansing
    committed by the separatist side, especially in the cases of Karabakh
    in 1992-93 and Abkhazia in 1993, as well as in South Ossetia in 2008.

    These are, therefore, in many ways mirror images of the Kosovo
    situation, strongly weakening the case for independence made by the
    separatists. It is a long-standing principle of international law
    that it is unacceptable to first alter the demographic situation and
    then make political declarations of independence."




    From: A. Papazian
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