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KARABAKH PUSHED ASIDE FROM NEGOTIATIONS?

Politics

Some formulations made in the declaration signed by Presidents Serzh Sargsyan, Ilham Aliev and Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement raise issues of concern, according to the “Politeconomia” political, economic and legal research institute. The institute has made a statement in which it states:

1. In the first point of the declaration it is stated that the settlement of the conflict will be implemented based on the norms and principles of international law, as well as the resolutions and documents approved in the framework of those norms and principles.” Let us recall that on March 14, 2008, the UN General Assembly approved the 62/243 resolution (Situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan), which recognized the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan in the internationally recognized limits, as well as presented a demand for the complete, unreserved and immediate dislocation of Armenian forces from Azerbaijan. If Serzh Sarkissian agrees to see the political settlement of the conflict based on the internationally approved documents relating to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, that means that Azerbaijan now has the opportunity to put the UN resolution as a basis in the negotiations process. This is not to the benefit of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh and may contribute to the application of the principle of territorial integrity brought up by Azerbaijan. Nagorno-Karabakh conflict based on the international documents relating to

2. Regardless of what the Moscow declaration will bring, what concerns us is the fact that with the signing of RA President Serzh Sarkissian, the Republic of Armenia has validated a document which leaves out Nagorno-Karabakh, in other words, the signature of the official representative of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Let us note that until now, there has not been any other document for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, which doesn’t include the signature of the official representative of NKR. This means that the RA authorities have accepted de yure the fact that NKR is not part of the negotiations process and that sets barriers for the NKR to be involved in any negotiation to be held in the future. It is already clear that no such document has been signed during the terms of Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Robert Kocharyan and they have always declared that Armenia will not sign any document, which doesn’t take into account the will of the people of NKR.

Let us recall that there are signatures of official NKR representatives in the protocol signed in Bishkek on May 5, 1994, the agreement signed in Baku and Yerevan on May 9, 10, 11, 1994 and the document on “Ceasefire” in Stepanakert.

Now, after the signing of the declaration in Moscow, the Azeri side has a document, which throws on the sidelines the achievements of Armenian and Karabakh diplomacy made until now . We call on all organizations and individuals concerned about the NKR conflict, as well as the Armenian people to consolidate forces in order to neutralize the dangers facing national security.”