VARDAN OSKANIAN: IF NOT THE 1991 REFERENDUM, NKR WOULD NOT EXIST TODAY
ArmRadio.am
04.09.2006 11:45
If not the referendum on independence, the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
would not exist today, RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian said during
the Yerevan-Stepanakert spacebridge broadcast by the Public Television
of Armenia.
In the Minister’s words, the people of Nagorno Karabakh had no
alternative to the declaration of independence, without which
Armenians could not have mobilized their forces. The legality of
NKR independence reinforces the positions of the Armenian side in
the negotiation process, notwithstanding the fact that today the
international community considers the question exceptional from the
political perspective, not a legal one. Just In the political field
the Armenian side should apply every effort to reach the desirable
result in the negotiations, taking into consideration the legitimacy
of the decision the people of Karabakh took on September 2, 1991.