ArmInfo. Azerbaijan must realize that Karabakh will never be its part, Albert Andryan, Permanent Representative of the Artsakh Republic to the Russian Federation, told the Federal News Agency in an interview.
According to him, Artsakh made its choice, for which it paid a very high price. There is no return to the past. And this should be realized as a fact. "But constantly fighting with each other is not a thing. You just need to understand that we, like them, like everyone else, have the same right to life, to free existence, movement and development. Therefore, I think that anyway, sooner or later the peace between us must be established. If we all manage to understand this and step through the pressure that turns out to be from the side of the people of war, then we can cross this line and sign the peace. And the faster we do this, the faster we will get a chance to develop more harmoniously and systematically. If we do not understand this, all the same, sooner or later there will be people who will initiate this war again. Azerbaijan must recognize the independence of Karabakh, which did not done on the initiative of some leaders – the residents of Karabakh paid for it with their blood. The main thing is that Baku understands this, recognizes it, and further we will live in a neighborly way. Maybe there will be settlements with cohabitation. After all, we were living together!>, The permanent representative noted.
He also called that it is necessary to cross this line. "We need to overcome ourselves and understand that the confrontation lasting all these years is a dead end. It will not lead to anything. We will constantly destroy each other. We do not need to fight: we want to live peacefully and calmly. They are building up their military power. We forced to do the same: The current situation is the result of the war they imposed on us, "Andryan said, recalling the background of the issue.
According to him, a referendum was held in Artsakh at the time. "The people expressed a desire to live separately. That state (USSR) no longer exists, those laws no longer exist. But it was precisely under those laws that we withdrew from Azerbaijan, which was part of the USSR. We wanted to join Armenia. We must not forget that nevertheless, initially the issue has been addressed just like this: to secede from Azerbaijan and become part of Armenia. This is Miatsum (an idea based on the demand of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh to annex the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region inhabited by Armenians to Armenia, FNG Ed. note). And this issue has not been removed from the agenda. But these are purely our internal problems. They imposed a war on us. Today we demand independence. How we will live and where we will go are our internal issues, Armenia and ours. And they do not concern either Azerbaijan or the rest of the world, "the Permanent Representative said, adding that regardless of who will be in power in Armenia, Armenia and Artsakh have one position." And it is unchanged: it was from the very beginning and will be so until the end. Because this is the only right position. And there is no disagreement between the leadership of Armenia and the leadership of Artsakh. There is only one position: Karabakh, Artsakh should be independent and continue to decide its own fate, "the Permanent Representative summed up.