Holding referendum in NKR doesn’t contradict with int’l principles

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Dec 1 2006

HOLDING REFERENDUM IN NKR DOES NOT CONTRADICT WITH INTERNATIONAL
PRINCIPLES

The NKR people will choose their way themselves, and it does not
contradict with the international law’s two principles – the
principle of territorial integrity and the nations’ right to
self-determination, RA FM Vardan Oskanian said at a press conference
in Yerevan.
In his words, the referendum’s principal outcome will not be its
recognition by the international community, but the expression of the
Nagorno-Karabakh people’s will. `’The international community may not
recognize the referendum’s outcomes, but it cannot ignore the
people’s will”, Oskanian underscored, PanARMENIAN.Net reports.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS