- JAMnews
- Yerevan
The signing of decrees on the recognition of the DPR and LPR is being actively discussed in the expert community of Armenia. Political scientists, politicians, experts on security and international relations, and journalists share assessments of what this means and how it may affect the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh.
“Let’s hope that the recognition of the LNR and the DNR is an attempt by the Russian authorities to save face and an alternative to a large-scale war”.
“Do you even understand that amid of the development of Russian-Ukrainian events, we [Armenia] will become a case study of how you can miss all the opportunities provided by the international regulatory framework, which are now being used to the maximum by both sides of the current conflict?
However, we do not believe in the possibilities provided by international norms, which have almost never been used. Instead, we prefer to blame the whole world, resent this world and remain trapped in geopolitical fatalism”.
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“Those who do not sympathize with Putin and Russia are declaring that with this step, Putin simply hammered a nail in his own coffin. Those who sympathize with Putin and dislike the West are slapping the West.
And everyone judges the reality and the situation only by the news broadcast by the media, while world politics does not begin and end with them”.
“Armenia must respect the right of any nation to free self-determination. I will say more, we believe that Armenia should have recognized the independence of Artsakh in the very first days of the 44-day war in 2020. The former authorities did not recognize the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, so as not to disrupt the negotiation process.
But when Azerbaijan, Turkey, and the jihadists launched a large-scale war against Artsakh, there was no rational explanation as to why its independence was not recognized.
According to the Deliberative Decision of the International Court of Justice on the self-proclamation of Kosovo, the principle of territorial integrity operates when two internationally recognized states recognize each other’s territorial integrity, but this does not prevent any country from unilaterally declaring independence.
We stand for the absolutization of the right of peoples to self-determination. Therefore, Armenia should consider the issue of recognizing the DPR and LPR and make a timely decision”.
“Putin explained in the best possible way why it is necessary to recognize the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh. If we replace the words Ukraine and Donetsk with Azerbaijan and Artsakh in his speech, we will see that everything coincides. So I think this is a new chance for us.
It is necessary to initiate a similar bill from our side. Unfortunately, at this crucial moment, the authorities of Armenia and Artsakh are weaker than ever. In any case, everything must be done so that such a project is immediately adopted.
