NO ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-DETERMINATION IN NK PROBLEM: UK SPECIAL REP. FOR SOUTH CAUCASUS

ARMINFO News Agency
October 6, 2005

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 6. ARMINFO. After settlement of the Karabakh conflict,
Armenia will no longer need Russia’s military presence. UK Special
Representative for the South Caucasus Bryan Fall said at NATO “Rose
Roth” seminar in Yerevan, Thursday.

He said other states and organizations are also interested in
dislocation of their subdivisions in the region, this issue needs
consideration. The diplomat thinks inadmissible further freeze of the
Karabakh conflict. Armenia and Azerbaijan have different approaches.

The first one insists on the principle of the people’s right to
self-determination, the second one – on the principle of territorial
integrity. However, Helsinki Declaration says both the principles
are equally strong and there are no arguments against the principle
of self- determination in the Karabakh problem, he said.