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SITUATION AT LISBON SUMMIT IN 1996, WHEN A DEFEATIST DOCUMENT ON
SETTLEMENT OF KARABAKH CONFLICT WAS FORCED UPON ARMENIA, MAY REPEAT
AT CE SUMMIT IN WARSAW: LEADER OF NDP
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 17. ARMINFO. If the international community
further considers Karabakh conflict as a territorial dispute between
Armenia and Azerbaijan, the situation at Lisbon Summit in 1996,
when a defeatist document on settlement of Karabakh conflict was
forced upon Armenia, may repeat at CE Summit in Warsaw fixed for May
2005. Leader of the opposition National Democratic Party Shavarsh
Kocharyan made this statement at a press conference at the Armenian
Parliament, Thursday.
He says that the present authorities of Armenia, who ousted Karabakh
from negotiation process, are responsible for transformation of
the Karabakh conflict into a territorial dispute between Armenia and
Azerbaijan in the eyes of the international community. If in 1991 after
the referendum of independence in Nagorny Karabakh Armenia recognized
the independence of NKR and demanded the international community to
do the same, now a considerable progress would have been reached in
this issue and there would be countries recognizing the sovereignty
of Nagorny Karabakh. He says that in 1991 several Latin-American
countries were ready to recognize the independence of Nagony Karabakh,
however the former ruling regime in Armenia “in the person of” the
Armenian National Movement categorically refused from such policy.
Unfortunately, the present authorities of Armenia did not do it either,
Savarsh Kocharyan says. In this connection, Shavarsh Kocharyan states
that Armenia must recognize the independence of Nagorny Karabakh only
after democratic elections are held in the country and a legitimate
power is formed.
Meanwhile, he says that the positions of the Armenian party in the
Karabakh problem are invulnerable from the legal point of view, and
the Karabakh conflict differs from the remaining regional conflicts
just with this. He notes that yet in 1991 Nagorny Karabakh held a
referendum of independence in conformity with international legal norms
and the USSR Law on the order of withdrawal of the Soviet Republics
from the USSR. As a result, two sovereign states, Nagorny Karabakh
Republic and Azerbaijani Republic, were formed in the territory of
the former Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic. Shavarsh Kocharyan
says that if the Armenian party constantly attracted the attention
of international structures to the legal aspect of Karabakh conflict,
the Azerbaijani propaganda based on falsified facts, would fail. After
all when Azerbaijan says that allegedly armed groupings exists in
the territory of NKR, the Armenian party can bring real facts that
representatives of Taliban movement and other terrorist groupings
fought on the part Azerbaijan in the course of the liberation fight
for Nagorny Karabakh, Kocharyan says.