NKR REACTS TO COE SECRETARY GENERALS’ STATEMENTS IN YEREVAN
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07.11.2007 17:05
NKR Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Relations reacted to
the statements the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry
Davis made in Yerevan.
The Commission is surprised that although usually brief, this time the
European official afforded accentuations that suit neither him, nor the
respected organization he represents. "In particular, speaking about
the lack of a statement denouncing the recent local self-governmental
elections in NKR, Mr. Davis probably confused not only the geographical
but also the traditional parameters. It’s at least worrisome that an
official of this rank could put on the same layer phenomena having
nothing in common, and we hope that Mr. Davis will keep the European
community informed in which context he dew the improper parallel. As
for the expressions concerning the NKR authorities, we have to make
Mr. Davis notice that all people aspiring for independence have
been forced to pass along the way of "separatism" at some point
in history. It’s not the fault of the NKR people that at the time
of collapse of the Soviet Union due to understandable reasons the
United National Organization or the Council of Europe did not manage
to establish "foreign control" in Nagorno Karabakh, which would make
the current independence legitimate," the Committee’s comment says.
The Committee reminds that what the UN did in Europe by preventing
ethnic cleansing and threats of genocide, the NKR people has
achieved exceptionally by own strength, using its right for
self-determination. "If Mr. Davis does no master the facts, we have
to remind him that the autonomous status of Nagorno Karabakh was
dissolved upon the decision of the Supreme Council of Azerbaijan on
24 November, 1991, and the Ministries of Defence and Interior Affairs
were instructed to "undertake measures to ensure the security of
Azeris of Nagorno Karabakh." If this is a decision not adopted for
the purpose of displacing or annihilating the Armenian population of
Karabakh, then we ask the Secretary General of the Council of Europe
to comment why there is no mention about the civil and human rights
of the Armenian population of Karabakh in the decision of the supreme
body of Azerbaijan," the statement says.
It is noted that having successfully overcome the military attack
of Azerbaijan, having passed a certain way of state governance
and aspiring for democratic development today, the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic has more legal bases for being recognized by the international
community "than the formation to which Mr. Davis refers."