Armenia supports Karabakh’s right to self-determination

Interfax-Religion, Russia
April 20 2006

YEREVAN. April 20 (Interfax) – Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanian said that Yerevan is ready to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh
settlement with Baku, should the Azerbaijani authorities recognize
the right of the breakaway republic to self-determination.

“Armenia is ready to discuss all issues linked to overcoming the
consequences of war with Azerbaijan, should Baku recognize Karabakh’s
right to self-determination and should Baku not impede Karabakh
residents to define the status of Nagorno-Karabakh,” the minister
said at a press conference on Thursday.

“Our stance is that the people of Nagorno-Karabakh should decide for
themselves on the status they need,” he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS