AZG Armenian Daily #116, 24/06/2005
Karabakh issue
‘MOSCOW CONSISTENTLY BACKS AZERBAIJAN’S TERRITORIAL WHOLENESS’
In a press release issued on occasion of parliamentary elections in Nagorno
Karabakh on June 19, the Foreign Ministry of Russia stated that “Moscow
consistently backs Azerbaijan’s territorial wholeness as well as other
principles of the international law”.
“Russia does not recognize Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state. We
believe that its future status should be settled without applying arms, as a
result of negotiations with all the sides in the process of Minsk group.
Moscow thinks that the process of peaceful resolution should not depend on
elections in Karabakh. We want to point out that Russian observers took part
in the elections on their own initiative”, the document reads.