CEDING OF TERRITORIES TO THE ENEMY, FOR WHICH ARMENIAN PEOPLE HAVE LEGAL, POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL RIGHTS, WILL BE A STRONG MORAL BLOW TO THEM, THE NKR EX-DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER THINKS

ArmInfo
2009-07-13 14:03:00

ArmInfo. Ceding of territories to the enemy, for which Armenian people
have legal, political and historical rights, will be a strong moral
blow to them, which may for many years stop the national will to fight
and to build their own statehood, the NKR ex-deputy foreign minister,
chairman of Foreign Policy and Security Public Council, Masis Mailyan,
told ArmInfo correspondent.

‘The published basic principles in case of their adoption and
fulfillment will take toll to the national interests of the NKR and
Armenia. Moreover, the text of the joint statement on the Karabakh
conflict by the presidents of Russia, the USA and France does not much
differ form the statements adopted earlier on various levels and within
the frames of different international structures to support the OSCE
Minsk Group process’, – he said and added that ceding of any territory
being under the NKR control will first of all mean breaking of the
NKR Constitution, in which these territories are fixed. Moreover,
withdrawal of the NKR Defence Army subdivisions even from a part of
the liberated territories will break the military and food security
of the NKR. He also added that in the published principles there is
no word about returning to Karabakh of more than 100 sq.km. Karabakhi
lands occupied by Azerbaijan.