Azerbaijan in Its Time Violated USSR Territorial Integrity

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.07.2006 15:57 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The thesis that the self-determination principle
does not mean violation of territorial integrity, announced by Azeri
FM Elmar Mammadyarov is not serious at all, political scientist Levon
Melik-Shahnazaryan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his opinion,
actually there are many examples of the kind in the world, however
this only means that self-determining people either cannot or do not
want to build their own sovereign state. "It is more comfortable to
it to remain part of the mother country state, like Komi. Opposite
examples, when self-determining peoples left the mother country
and built their own state, are not less in number. By the way,
Azerbaijan’s self-determination followed that way. It announced
sovereignty by breaking the international and soviet law, violating
the territorial integrity of the USSR. However, this is all theory,"
Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan stressed.