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    Karabakh independence was key historic landmark - opinion

    15:08 * 02.09.14


    The proclamation of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) as an independent
    republic was an important landmark for our future, a historian has
    said, remembering the developments that led to the country's
    independence.

    "September 2 marked the birth of the second Armenian republic. Artsakh
    proclaimed itself a republic much earlier than did the Republic of
    Armenia," Edik Minasyan, the dean of the Yerevan State University's
    History Department, told reporters at a news conference dedicated to
    the 23rd anniversary of Nagorno-Karabakh's independence.

    The historian remembered that the situation in Artsakh was extremely
    complicated in the early 1990's, with Soviet Azerbaijan pursuing the
    policy of the Armenians' deportation in collaboration with the USSR
    forces.

    Minasyan noted that Azerbaijan proclaimed independence in the wake of
    a parliament decision adopted in August 1991. "The question should
    have been rapidly resolved under such circumstances, given especially
    that there were all the legal and historical conditions for declaring
    the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic an independent state. The USSR law
    allowed for that," he explained.

    The historian noted that Karabakh never before made part of the
    Azerbaijani republic, adding that the fact never prevented the latter
    from exercising violence against the former autonomous region.

    He noted further that the proclamation of Karabakh was consistent with
    the norms and principles of international law, with the country
    subsequentluy electing a parliament and adopting its state flag, coat
    of arm and national anthem. "The defense of Artsakh and Armenia's
    borders is in reliable hands today," Minasyan said.


    http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/09/02/Edik-minasyan/

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