WITHDRAWAL FROM LIBERATED TERRITORIES WILL LEAD TO WAR, SAYS KARABAKH MP
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Sep 14, 2009
STEPANAKERT-Azerbaijan will eventually invade and occupy
Nagorno-Karabakh if the Karabakh Defense Forces are forced to withdraw
from the liberated territories surrounding the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation serving
as a deputy in Karabakh’s National Assembly warned on Monday.
War will break out if If Karabakh loses the territories and is forced
to only maintain a narrow corridor to Armenia, Armen Sargsyan told
reporters Monday. "Azerbaijan will sooner or later attack it to divide
this part from Armenia," he warned.
"We should preserve these territories, he underscored, stressing that
there are serious historic and security precedents for Karabakh to
remain in the territories.
The independence of Karabakh’s is also in danger, he warned, noting
Turkey’s growing involvement in the process and its efforts to link
the normalization of its relations with Armenia on a resolution to
the Karabakh conflict favoring its ally Azerbaijan.
"The Turkish factor must not become decisive in the peace process,"
he stated, adding that a new stage has begun in the peace process
and new principles for peace should be presented, which are rooted
in the Nagorno-Karabakh people’s right to self determination.