NKR MFA: ATTEMPTS TO BRING KARAABKH AND ITS PEOPLE BACK INTO PAST DOOMED TO FAILURE

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.07.2008 16:10 GMT+04:00

The Nagorno Karabakh Republic has proclaimed its independence and
is building its statehood in compliance with the international law
and that time USSR legislation, the legal successor of which is the
present-day Russian Federation, NKR Foreign Minister said.

"Neither history, nor time can be turned back. The attempts of the
Azerbaijani leadership to revive the old Stalin administrative doomed
"borders" only provoke tension around the Nagorno Karabakh problem
and may result in conflict escalation," Georgy Petrossian said
when commenting on Azeri media reports saying that "solution of the
Azerbaijani-Karabakhi conflict on the basis of securing sovereignty,
territorial integrity and stability of the state’s borders."

"It happened so at the end of 1980s and at the beginning of 90s when
the international community recognized the results of the "referendum"
on independence in Azerbaijan, in which, by the way, the people of the
Nagorno Karabakh Republic didn’t participate, but refused to recognize
the results of a similar referendum in Nagorno Karabakh, I would like
to emphasize, conducted before the "referendum" in Azerbaijan. The
reason of Azerbaijan’s aggression against the Karabakhi people was
just this stance of the international community which stimulated
Azerbaijan’s claims on Nagorno Karabakh.

We have repeatedly stated that any attempts to bring Karabakh and
its people back into the past limiting their freedom are not only
counter-productive but are also doomed to failure.

Independence is the highest aim for the Nagorno Karabakh Republic
people, and we will never retreat. We are convinced that the
international community understands this," Minister Petrossian said.