Karabakh People Will on NK Status Principal

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.07.2006 14:02 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "The present scheme of the OSCE Minsk Group is as
follows: majority of territories against a promise for referendum on
the NK status. It provides for the withdrawal of the Armenian forces
from 5 regions while the rest remains uncertain. In such a case it’s
naïve to think that the sides can agree on referendum afterwards,"
says the article PanARMENIAN.Net received from former OSCE MG Russian
Co-chair Vladimir Kazimirov. In his words, with such state of things
the main problem – the NKR status determination- would remain unsettled
and represent danger of war. This issue must not be protracted. The
will of the Karabakh people is principal. Caucasus is a delicate
region and the international community should undertake to prevent
any attempts to settle the problem by threats and bloodshed. Nagorno
Karabakh should not be considered somebody’s territory and the will of
its population should not be neglected," Vladimir Kazimirov considers.

He also remarked that Baku quotes the Azeri Constitution that allows
conduction of national referenda only. "However it’s worth mentioning
that the Azeri Constitution was adopted in 1995 in order to prevent
the NK population from expressing will. This transformation of the
Organic Law of a state into an instrument of political and propaganda
war will lead to irreversible changes in this chapter. Let me also
remark that Article 9 of the above mentioned Constitution denies war as
"means of settlement of international conflicts," Kazimirov said.

The Russian diplomat pointed out to another fault in the
Azeri Constitution that badly troubles Baku in asserting its
"heritage". "When repealing the Constitution of 1978 the authors of
the Constitution of 1995 failed to give a proper name to their previous
republic. Thus the trick with Constitution doesn’t work. Nowadays the
voting on status is held by those who is immediately concerned in the
matter, that is by Quebec but not Canada; by Catalonia but not Spain,"
the article says.

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