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    ARMENIA NEVER TO GIVE AWAY KARABAKH, MINISTER SAYS

    Arminfo
    13 Mar 06

    Yerevan, 13 March: Neither under the threat of war nor if war is
    rejected, will Armenia give away territory. Official Yerevan is
    ready to discuss the issues of territories and the safety of refugees
    only and only when Azerbaijan recognizes the right of the people of
    Karabakh to self-determination. Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan
    Oskanyan said this in his replies to questions from the on-line
    version of the newspaper Azg.

    "Karabakh is Armenian land. Only Armenians have lived on that land
    for thousands of years and they preserved their sovereignty. There are
    no doubts here: this territory has never been part of Azerbaijan and
    it will not be. Armenians have no territorial claims outside their
    rights. Karabakh has not been part of Azerbaijan and cannot be.

    Karabakh has been Armenian and will remain Armenian, especially as
    Azerbaijan has no moral right to have any claims on Karabakh because
    it lost it in the 1990s when it tried several times to put pressure
    on the people of Karabakh militarily and even to subject them to
    ethnic cleansing. If it had not been for resistance by Armenians,
    there would be no Karabakh today," Oskanyan recalled.

    Speaking about compensations to Azerbaijani refugees from Armenia,
    Oskanyan stressed that Armenia is ready to discuss this issue within
    the framework of allocation of compensations by the Azerbaijani
    government to 350,000-400,000 Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan.
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