ARMINFO News Agency
September 24, 2005
ALL UNRECOGNIZED CIS STATES ADVOCATE KARABAKH’S INDEPENDENCE FROM
AZERBAIJAN
STEPANAKERT, SEPTEMBER 24. ARMINFO. The last Moscow scientific
conference “Parallel CIS: Abkhazia, Transdniestria, South Ossetia and
Nagorny Karabakh as Post-Soviet Area Realities” has been discussed at
the discussion club of the Helsinki Initiative – 92 NGO (NKR).
Invited to the discussion was one of the conferees, NKR presidential
advisor David Babayan who noted that the representatives of all the
unrecognized CIS sates were unanimous that Nagorny Karabakh must be
independent from Azerbaijan.
Babayan said that the Nagorny Karabakh conflict is very specific –
there is no as full independence awareness in either Abkhazia, South
Ossetia or Transdniestria as there is in Nagorny Karabakh. All of
them seem to just want to secede from one state and accede to another
which is not the case with Nagorny Karabakh. Besides NKR is far ahead
of them in both economy and state building.
Before the conference there had been reports that Nagorny Karabakh
was trying to estrange itself from the other unrecognized states
which was reportedly not as much the wish of Stepanakert as of
Yerevan. But there is no pressure on Nagorny Karabakh by Armenia. On
the conrary it is Nagorny Karabakh who has influence on Armeia. The
idea of Artsakh’s (Nagorny Karabakh) independence was the basis of
Armenia as a republic and the sovereign and idependent NKR is the
embodiment of this idea. Whoever in power in Armenia the idea of
Nagorny Karabakh will be the key stone of Armenia’s state policy.