ARMENIANS SAY SELF-DETERMINATION CRUCIAL FOR ENDING KARABAKH CONFLICT
Armenpress
Mar 14 2006
YEREVAN, MARCH 14, ARMENPRESS: A senior member of the governing
Republican party and a dissenter from the radical opposition party have
endorsed today the principle of people’s right to self-determination,
saying it is crucial in efforts to settle the Armenian-Azeri conflict
over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Galust Sahakian, the leader of the Republican party’s parliamentary
faction, and Albert Bazeyan, a former top member of the radical
opposition Hanrapetutyun (Republic) party, who has set up a new one
after defecting from Hanrapetutyun, argued that Azerbaijan itself
applied this principle to declare its independence from the former
Soviet Union.
Sahakian said the people of Nagorno Karabakh have also the right to
exercise this principle. He said another conflict resolution option
is to join Karabakh with Armenia.
Sahakian said Armenia remains committed to peaceful resolution of the
dispute and added that a war would shatter what has been achieved so
far. Both men also accused Azerbaijan of failing to display ‘enough
will’ to end the conflict.