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    PROCLAMATION OF THE NKR IS THE ONLY TRUE SOLUTION

    Friday, 29 August 2014 16:15
    http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1556:-proclamation-of-the-nkr-is-the-only-true-solution&catid=3:all&Itemid=4


    On September 2, the entire Armenian nation will celebrate the
    anniversary of the proclamation of the NagornoKarabakhRepublic. On
    this day in 1991, a joint session of the Nagorno Karabakh regional and
    Shahumian district Soviets of People's Deputies adopted the
    Declaration on the Proclamation of the NKR. From the historical and
    political points of view, this day, marking a new stage of the
    Karabakh National-Liberation Movement, became an important milestone
    in the fate of Artsakh and defined the future path of its development.

    It was the Declaration on the proclamation of the NKR that
    initiated the process of establishing an independent state, which
    today, 23 years later, can be rightfully considered an established
    reality.

    Today's younger generation of Artsakh may not be fully
    aware of the complicated twists and turns of the National-Liberation
    Movement and takes the reality of the NagornoKarabakhRepublicas a
    fact. We believe that there is nothing reprehensible in this, because
    the fact in itself proves that today's youth of Artsakh, which grew up
    in a free and independent country, cannot imagine itself in a
    different condition, in a different reality. However, it should know
    that the freedom was achieved at a high price, and the path to real
    independence was through hard trials, having become a visible
    testimony of the courage, honor and dignity, steadfast will and
    determination of the people of Artsakh in their aspiration to build
    and strengthen their hard-won statehood.

    The process of creation and development of the viable
    Karabakh statehood passed and is passing in extremely difficult
    conditions of confrontation with Azerbaijan, which committed
    unprecedented in their cruelty acts of mass murder and massacre
    against the Armenian population, set a blockade on Nagorno Karabakh,
    which hasn't been lifted so far, and then unleashed a war. Thehostile
    actions of the Baku regime are still underway, 20 years after the
    ceasefire establishment. The Azerbaijani authorities, actually, resort
    to almost any means, including clearly criminal, to impede the
    political, social-economic, and cultural development of our country. A
    special place in the foreign policy of Azerbaijan is occupied by
    distortion of the essence of the Karabakh conflict, substitution of
    the legitimate and legal bases of the proclamation of the
    NagornoKarabakhRepublicby pseudo-legal theses that have nothing to do
    with the reality. From many reputable platforms,Azerbaijan, in order
    to justify its unfounded claims for Artsakh, tries to impose on the
    appropriate international structures its viewpoint on the priority of
    the principle of territorial integrity over the people's right to
    self-determination.

    In this regard, I would like to remind once again that in
    the context of the NKR proclamation, it is incorrect to speak about
    the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. The matter is that the
    geopolitical transformations, which took place in the world at the
    turn of the 1980-1990s, and first of all, the impending collapse of
    the USSR created entirely new political and legal realities in the
    South Caucasus region. It is clear that the collapse of the Soviet
    Union was an inevitable consequence of the development of the domestic
    political processes, and the once powerful Communist power was divided
    into the parts, of which it had once been formed. For similar fair
    reasons, the collapse of Azerbaijan also took place - a state
    formation artificially created by the Bolsheviks, which was aptly
    nicknamed as a by the tsarist General, Denikin. As a
    result, two independent states were formed - the AzerbaijaniRepublic
    and theNagornoKarabakhRepublic. Moreover, which is very important, the
    process of secession of Nagorno Karabakh from Azerbaijan was legally
    perfect, which, however, cannot be said about Azerbaijanwhen seceding
    from the USSR. Whatever it was, but the fact is that
    theAzerbaijaniSovietSocialistRepublic fell into oblivion, and now to
    insist on the restoration of the territorial integrity of the
    non-existent state formation seems to be nonsense.

    Summarizing, we can state that the
    NagornoKarabakhRepublic, which has passed all the stages of state
    building, is a de facto established independent state. The process of
    development of the Karabakh statehood has long become irreversible.
    The NKR performs an independent foreign policy aimed at the protection
    of its national interests. The main vector of the foreign policy
    activity was and remains the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict settlement
    and achievement of the international recognition of the NKR
    independence. It is important to note that the position of the
    Republic's leadership is based on the legally perfect procedure of the
    NKR proclamation and on the peoples' right to self-determination.
    There is no doubt that the solution of the Karabakh issue on the
    conditions of Azerbaijan, which, actually, insists on returning to the
    realities of 1988, is unpromising and fraught with a new war.
    Considering the above mentioned, the international mediators from the
    OSCE should discuss today not the status of Nagorno Karabakh, which
    has long been defined by its people and is not subject to revision,
    but the principles and mechanisms for the establishment of interstate
    relations between the NKR and Azerbaijan.

    The Declaration of September 2, 1991 stated the right of the people of
    Nagorno-Karabakh to independently resolve the issue of its state-legal
    status, which did not absolutely run counter to international laws. 23
    years have passed since that day, and time has only confirmed the
    validity of this crucial political solution as the only true.


    Leonid MARTIROSSIAN
    Editor-in-Chief of Azat Artsakh newspaper

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