OFFICIAL STEPANAKERT CONDEMNED STATEMENTS BY COE SECRETARY GENERAL

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.11.2007 14:46 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The NKR National Assembly Standing Committee
on Foreign Relations commented on the statement of CoE Secretary
General Terry Davis running that "there is a great number of
distinctions between the Nagorno Karabakh and Kosovo conflicts, there
is no separatist regime in Kosovo, the region is governed by the UN,
security is guaranteed by the EU servicemen, which is not peculiar to
Nagorno Karabakh". The statement was made at a joint press conference
with Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian in Yerevan.

"Upon completion of negotiations in Yerevan, the CoE Secretary General
touched upon the issues which did not concern his current mission. We
understand that Mr. Davis stated it while answering the journalists’
questions, but the fact that in other cases this diplomatically laconic
European official ventured to make accents, which, in our opinion,
were worthy neither of him, nor of the authoritative structure he
had honor to represent, provokes surprise", the commentary of the
NKR National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Relations runs.

The committee also noted that "all the nations striving for
independence were forced to go through "separatism" at a certain
historical period. It is not the fault of the NKR people that during
Soviet Union’s decline the United Nations Organization or the Council
of Europe by understandable reasons could not establish "external
government" in Nagorno Karabakh, which could have made the present
independence legitimate".

"Everything the UN did in Europe averting ethnic cleansings and the
threat of genocide, the NKR people realized exclusively by its own
forces using its indefeasible right for self-defense. If Mr. Davis is
not informed about the facts, we have to remind him that on November
24, 1991, by Azerbaijan Supreme Council decision the autonomous status
of Nagorno Karabakh was liquidated and the ministries of defense
and home affairs were instructed "to take measures for providing
security for the NK Azerbaijanis. If this decision was not aimed at
deportation and annihilation of the NK native population, then why
doesn’t the decision of Azerbaijan’s superior authority contain even
a word about civic and human rights of the NK Armenian population?",
the commentary emphasizes.

In sum, The NKR National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign
Relations noted that "the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, which has
successfully repelled Azerbaijan’s armed aggression, passed a
certain stage of state government and is striving for democratic
development today, has more legitimate grounds to be recognized by the
international community, than the formation indicated by Mr. Davis,"
the NKR press office reported.