15% OF NKR TERRITORY UNDER AZERI OCCUPATION UP TILL NOW

PanARMENIAN.Net
29.05.2007 17:03 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Official Baku often refers to international
recognition of the Republic of Azerbaijan (RA) within arbitrary
interpretation of its "internationally recognized borders", which does
not have any connection with the reality, Deputy Foreign Minister
of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Masis Mailyan stated. He said, in
international law the recognition of a state does not mean automatic
recognition of its borders declared by that very state as a his own
borders. "The world practice supposes that the issue of territorial
delimitation between neighboring states can be resolved only in case
of mutual recognition by both sides of the state independence and
existence of diplomatic relations.

Any attempts to resolve issues of territorial delimitation out of ties
to recognize as a subject of international law and state independence
by one of the parties is illegal from the very beginning," Mailyan
underscored.

In his opinion, the matter must concerns not the territories as such,
but specification of state borders of NKR and Azerbaijan, and the
work of intergovernmental commission on delimitation and demarcation
of de facto existing borders between NKR and Azerbaijan is possible
only in case if Azerbaijan recognizes the state independence of
Artsakh. "During delimitation process we must proceed from the
territorial realities that received legal wording in the newly
adopted NKR Constitution, taking into account that the imperative
of providing the right of Artsakh citizens to physical security and
state independence can serve as the only criteria. It is quite obvious
for me that our country cannot independently develop and provide its
military and food security within the enclave borders of the former
NKAR, which was wrong from the very beginning.

Discussing issues of territories and borders we must constantly
remember and the circumstance that 15% of NKR territory, on which the
Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed, is under Azeri occupation
up till now," Masis Mailyan said, KarabakhOpen.com reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress