FM OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH: INDEPENDENCE IS SUPREME VALUE FOR THE PEOPLE OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH REPUBLIC AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO RENOUNCE IT

ArmInfo
2008-07-14 18:03:00

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has proclaimed and is building its
independence in full compliance with the international law and
the legislation of the USSR whose legal successor is the Russian
Federation, Foreign Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Georgy
Petrossyan said while commenting on the recent media reports that
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict might be resolved on the basis of the
principle of sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of
the borders of a state as reflected in the declaration on friendship
and strategic partnership between Azerbaijan and Russia.

History cannot be turned back. The attempts of the Azeri authorities
to reanimate the artificial Stalin-time borders are making things
even worse.

In the late 1980s-the early 1990s the international community
recognized the results of the independence "referendum" in Azerbaijan,
where no single resident of Nagorno-Karabakh took part, but refused
to recognize the results of a similar referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh,
held before the "referendum" in Azerbaijan.