KARABAKH ISSUE BASES ON RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.12.2007 17:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Whatever OSCE MG proposals could be, the opinion
of Karabakhi people will be taken into account, Armenian Foreign
Minister Vartan Oskanian told a news conference in Yerevan.

"Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan did not say that religious factor lies
in the basis of the conflict.

His statement was distorted," he noted. "The issue of Nagorno Karabakh
is the issue of right of Karabakhi people to self-determination. If
Azerbaijan were a Christian state the problem would remain."

In an interview with The Los Angeles Times Armenian Prime Minister
Serzh Sargsyan conceded that the conflict can have a religious motive
but it’s not decisive in the opposition.