KARABAKH TALKS FRUITLESS OVER BAKU’S REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE NKR RIGHT TO REFERENDUM

PanARMENIAN.Net
07.06.2006 13:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The talks on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement
do not yield fruit since Azerbaijan refuses to recognize the right of
the NKR people to referendum, Vice-speaker of the Armenian parliament
Vahan Hovhannisian stated in Yerevan.

However, in his words, the world practice proves that exercising
the right to self-determination peoples express their will via
referendum. “The point is that Nagorno Karabakh was the first to do
it during the post soviet age, when the international community was
not ready for separation from metropolises. When independence was
proclaimed in Eastern Timor, Eritrea, Montenegro it was perceived
as a normal phenomenon. By the way, the same variant will be to all
appearance proposed to Kosovo,” Hovhannisian remarked.