NEW REFERENDUM FOR NK STATUS DETERMINATION WOULD MEAN 1991 REFERENDUM RESULTS VOIDING

Arka News Agency, Armenia
June 14 2006

STEPANAKERT, June 14. /ARKA/. New referendum for Nagorno Karabakh
status determination would mean the 1991 referendum results voiding,
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Foreign Ministry says in Demographic Trap
publication placed on its portal.

The ministry says that some European organizations involved in
the process of Karabakh conflict settlement just secure their own
interests, which coincide with Azerbaijani interests.

As an example of these organizations, NKR Foreign Ministry singled
out International Crisis Group who calls into question the legitimacy
of the referendum conducted on December 10, 1991, in accordance with
the then USSR law, which reflected Karabakh people’s will.

"What for Azerbaijani minority, it enjoyed right for expressing
opinion, but Karabakhi Azerbaijanis rejected this right and ignored
the referendum expressing indifference to the republic’s future",
the ministry says.

The ministry also said that if Armenian side gives consent for a new
referendum, then neither Armenia nor Nagorno Karabakh will be able
to bar Azerbaijan from changing demographic situation in the republic
under cover of "peacekeepers" mission and "refugees" return.