INDEED, THE PEOPLE OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH DON’T WANT ANYTHING THAT IS NOT THEIRS

Karabakh Open
Oct 4 2007

The people of Nagorno-Karabakh don’t want anything that is not theirs

The Nagorno-Karabakh issue should not be discussed at the UN, stated
the Armenian foreign minister Oskanyan addressing the 62nd session
of the UN General Assembly, News Armenia reported.

"The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is included on the agenda of this
General Assembly session under the topic of protracted conflicts. But
any resolution that places all conflicts in one pot is necessarily
flawed," Oskanyan said. According to him, each of these conflicts is
different. For the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, this issue should not
be discussed at the UN, because it is being negotiated in the OSCE,
the minister said.

"First, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not frozen. We continue
to negotiate and we are inching towards resolution," said minister
Oskanyan in his speech the text of which was provided to News Armenia
on Thursday by the press and information service of the Armenian
foreign ministry.

According to him, there is a well-developed negotiating document on the
table, "based not on wishful thinking, but on the core issue and the
consequential issues. Together, they add up to a balanced solution,"
he said.

"At the core of the process lies the issue of the right of the people
of Nagorno-Karabakh to determine their own future. Indeed, the people
of Nagorno-Karabakh don’t want anything that is not theirs – they
want a right to live in peace and security and to determine their
own future, they want to exercise the right that every people here
has exercised at some point in their history," the minister underlined.

GUAM reported the issue of resolving frozen conflicts to the 62nd
session of the UN General Assembly.