EXPERTS APT TO RECOGNIZE NKR INDEPENDENCE OR PROBABLE ANNEXATION TO ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
10.12.2007 12:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Irrelative of the talks mediated by the OSCE
Minsk Group, judging by my contacts with international experts, I
can say that over the past years they were inclined for recognition
of independence of NKR or unification of NKR and Armenia.

Most experts in our region rule out return of the status quo of 1988,"
former NKR Foreign Minister Masis Mailyan said.

"Those who track the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement are no more
surprised to hear mutually exclusive statements from diplomats after
similar meetings. With regard to this particular case, ostensibly a
referendum or a plebiscite on the status of Karabakh is concerned. In
this case, I think the parties are telling the truth but not the
whole truth.

In other words, they give information that favors them," he noted. "As
to whether the Armenian government agreed on all the other issues,
as far as I know, the principle of the consultations is ‘we agree on
nothing unless we agree on everything’. Even if we assume that there
is agreement on several issues, all that has been agreed on earlier
will be conventional until a final agreement is reached."

If independence of Kosovo is nevertheless recognized, it would be
remarkable that the province gained independence not owing to but
despite the will of the former metropolis, according to him.

"We are going to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the new stage of
the Karabakh Movement soon. Over these years more than twenty new
states have appeared on the political map of the world. Unlike Kosovo,
however, these countries gained independence thanks to the agreement
of the central government (Ethiopia – Eritrea, Indonesia – East Timor,
and others)," he said.

"Since Azerbaijan is not ready either to recognize independence of
NKR or to hold a dialogue, the Kosovo precedent may be useful for the
diplomacy of both Armenian states," he resumed, Karabakh Open reports.