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Armenian official urges Azerbaijan to recognize Karabakh’sself-deter

Armenian official urges Azerbaijan to recognize Karabakh’s self-determination

Arminfo
21 Apr 06

Yerevan, 21 April: “We would be very pleased if the Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry really positively responded to the statement made by
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan and considered it to be
constructive. This would stimulate positive developments in the
settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict,” the press secretary of
the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Gamlet Gasparyan, said in an interview
with Armenpress news agency today.

Azerbaijan’s comments, in response to Oskanyan’s recent statement
that if Azerbaijan recognizes the right of the Nagornyy Karabakh
people to determine its future status, Armenia will be ready to
seriously discuss the elimination of the consequences of the war,
showed that nothing had changed in Azerbaijan’s position, he said. As
soon as someone speaks about the right of the Nagornyy Karabakh
people to self-determination, everyone in Azerbaijan plunges into
deep nostalgia for Soviet times and dreams of “the highest degree of
autonomy”. Oskanyan has repeatedly clearly expressed Armenia’s
position on this issue, which envisages the recognition by Azerbaijan
of the right of the Karabakh people to self-determination in order to
achieve mutual understanding and then discussions on the elimination
of the consequences of the war.

“I regret that instead of accepting this reality, Azerbaijan still
cherishes empty hopes,” Gasparyan said.

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
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