"NKR DE FACTO COUNTRY"
Panorama.am
21:53 13/03/2008
"Nagorno Karabakh Republic is more democratic than Azerbaijan,
which has gone far with its democratic rates from the Middle Asian
countries," said Shavarsh Kocharyan, the chairman of NDP in discussion
on "Is Kosovo’s case applicable to NKR one".
According to him the NKR is a country which has its territory
which is protected, it has its inhabitants, it is self-financing,
has legislative, executive and court bodies. "Whereas Kosovo’s
territory is protected by international forces, doesn’t have army,
is not self-financing, it received 3 billion euros to stabilize the
country," said Kocharyan.
He signified that compared with Kosovo, NKR was created by itself
and made its country without receiving support or contribution from
other forces.
"I think that Armenia should recognize the NK freedom and leave the
territorial questions to Karabakh and let the country solve them. It
is not the matter of Armenia," he said and added that Kosovo has been
recognized as an independent country coming from others political
interests.
The National Assembly deputy and the member of "Heritage" party
Stepan Safaryan, who was at the discussion also, said that to obtain
objective evaluation they have sent requests to other countries’
authorities. "We got an answer from Israel, that the request should
be defined by Israeli executive and legislative bodies. This means
that the international right does not work with this questions,
but the political interest does," said the deputy.
The participants of the discussion were of the same opinion that the
NKR has more funds as ethnic groups, as political and legislative
ones to be recognized as independent country.