“OUR GOAL IS TO ACHIEVE DE JURE RECOGNITION OF KARABAKH”

Azg/arm
24 Nov 04

Arkady Ghukasian, NKR President, during his visit to the US stated in
the course of the meeting with the Armenian community of California
that Karabakh will never surrender to Azerbaijan. “Our aim is
to achieve de jure recognition of Karabakh,” he said. Ghukasian
negatively assessed the activities of Baku authorities that try to
include in the agenda of the UN the issue of the so-called occupied
territories. He said that the provoking steps taken by the official
Baku make the Nagorno Karabakh settlement process more complicated. NKR
President said that the issues of territories and refugees occurred
as a result of the military aggression of Azerbaijan, these issues
are the results of armed conflict. “The main issue of the conflict
is Nagorno Karabakh’s status,” Ghukasian said.