ARKADI GHUKASSIAN ON KOSOVO AND KARABAKH: WORLD FEARS FROM PRECEDENTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.07.2007 16:56 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Unfortunately, the world elite does not try to find
a legal solution to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict walking on the way
of political settlement," NKR President Arkadi Ghukassian stated in his
lecture at the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) State University in Yerevan
July 3. He also stressed that Stepanakert does not oppose political
settlement, but the legal base may assist the decision making process.

"Kosovo’s example encourages us, and irrespective of how hard we
are being convinced that it cannot serve as a precedent for other
unrecognized republics, it does not fit in logical frames," Arkadi
Ghukassian underlined adding that the world fears from precedents. "It
is much more easier for the world superpowers to act basing on already
existing standards than to create new ones. Besides, recognition of
Kosovo’s independence may become a cause for new conflicts, and the
world community does not want such a thing to happen. I am sure that
Nagorno Karabakh has much more arguments to seek independence than
Kosovo," A. Ghukassian said.

He reminded, western diplomacy thinks that Kosovo cannot serve as an
example for other unrecognized republics, but Russia adheres to the
opposite position. "Western diplomats must explain why Kosovo can be
independent and Nagorno Karabakh not," the NKR President stressed. The
independence and establishment of statehood was not an end in itself
for Nagorno Karabakh. "We did not want to prove that we can do it.

Statehood is an inevitability, it is for protecting borders and
mobilizing own resources for its defense," Arkadi Ghukassian concluded,
IA Regnum reports.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress