RECOGNIZING KOSOVO’S INDEPENDENCE WILL MEAN "TRYING TO FISH ARTSAKH’S INDEPENDENCE IN TROUBLED WATERS"

armradio.am
22.02.2008 15:02

The historic past of Kosovo, having nothing in common with the Karabakh
issue, is much more like the history of Nakhijevan, when the world
powers decided to artificially annex territories to the country they
considered convenient, political scientist Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan
declared at a press conference today.

According to him, Armenia must not recognize the independence of
Kosovo, because it will mean "trying to fish Artsakh’s independence
in troubled waters." According to Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan, the
self-determination of Kosovo counters the historic ethics; this
independence has been acquired in an unfair way and can be viewed as
an expression of separatism.

"Listening to the explanations of the 15 countries that recognized
the independence of Kosovo, I understood that the world is not guided
by law: state make decisions, deriving from their own interests,"
the political scientist said. He quoted the representative of France
as saying that Kosovo should be independent from Serbia because the
peoples of the two states have different cultures and because people
in Kosovo suffered hardship during ex-President Slobodan Milosevic’s
rule. According to Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan, both explanations are
characteristic of the Karabakh conflict. "If after all this, the world
fails to recognize the independence of Artsakh, it will be immoral."