NKR PEOPLE INDEPENDENTLY DID WHAT THE UN DID IN EUROPE PREVENTING ETHNIC PURGES AND GENOCIDE THREAT

arminfo
2007-11-07 11:24:00

ArmInfo. Nagorny Karabakh Republic Parliamentary Commission for
Foreign Relations comments on the statements made by Council of
Europe Secretary General Terry Davis at a joint press conference
with Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan in Yerevan. In
particular, T. Davis stated that Kosovo and Karabakh conflicts are
very different. Unlike NKR, there is no regime in Kosovo and the UN
controls over the region. Moreover, EU servicemen provide security
guarantees to the region, he said.

‘After the negotiations in Yerevan, CE Secretary General touched
upon the issues bearing no relation to his current mission. We
understand that Mr. Davis did it just answering to questions of
journalists. However, it is surprising that such a diplomatically
laconic official afforded himself to put stresses which we think
not worthy either of him or of the authoritative organization
he represents,’ says the statement by the NKR Parliamentary
Commission. ‘All the peoples seeking independence have to pass the way
of at particular period in their history. It is not the guilt of NKR
people that on the days of collapse of the Soviet Union the UN and CE
failed to establish external control over Nagorny Karabakh for some
unknown reason. It would add legitimacy to our present independence,’
the statement says.

‘What the UN did in Europe preventing ethnic purges and genocide
threat, NKR people did independently executing its right to
self-protection. If Mr. Davis is not informed of facts, we have to
mention that on November 24 1991 the autonomous status of Nagorny
Karabakh (NK) was liquidated on demand on Azerbaijani Supreme
Council. Moreover, the ministries of defense and internal affairs were
instructed to ‘take measures to provide security to the Azerbaijanis
in NK’ If this decision did not aim to deport and annihilate the local
population of NK, why did not it contain a single word about the civil
and human rights of the Armenian population of NK. NKR successfully
held off the armed aggression of Azerbaijan, passed a definite way
of state government and now aspires for democratic development and
has more legal bases to be recognized by the international community
than the formation which Mr. Davis indicated at,’ NKR Parliamentary
Foreign Relations Committee states.