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    Nagorno Karabakh President on Montenegro referendum: The precedent is
    important'

    26.05.2006 12:50

    YEREVAN (YERKIR) - If the international community is really ready to
    recognize Montenegro and Kosovo's independence, I believe it will be
    very difficult to explain to them, why they are not ready to recognize
    Nagorno Karabakh's independence; Nagorno Karabakh President Arkady
    Gukasyan, who attended the third Congress of Russia's Armenians Union
    on May 25, stated, speaking to a REGNUM correspondent.

    `I believe that every question has its specificity, but, nevertheless,
    there are some common positions, typical for all unrecognized states
    and such conflicts ` in this aspect, I believe that precedent is
    important,' Gukasyan stressed, commenting on the referendum outcomes
    concerning Montenegro independence.

    At the same time, the NK president stressed that `Karabakh has much
    more grounds ` historical, legal, and geographic ones ' to reckon on
    independence.'

    `Let us not forget that Nagorno Karabakh people defended their
    independence with weapons in hands; they held out in war imposed on it
    by Azerbaijan, and they are building their state now at the cost of
    their best sons' lives.

    I believe that we have every reason to reckon on recognition of our
    independence by the international community. In any case, I do not see
    any alternative for it. Nagorno Karabakh is independent; Nagorno
    Karabakh will be independent, and it does not depend on Azerbaijan's
    will.

    This process may not be stopped and I am sure, the international
    community will recognize Artsakh sooner or later. The sooner it will
    do it, the more chances there will be for prevailing of peace, order
    in region, and establishment of mutual understanding between its
    peoples,' Arkady Gukasyan believes.
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