“Armenian restraint yielded no results”
Former deputy foreign minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Masis Mailyan welcomes the recognition of Kosovo independence by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague.
"The court ruling will play an important role for the international recognition of Nagorno Karabakh," Mr. Mailyan told A1+.
He thinks that NKR has more legal and institutional grounds for achieving independence than Kosovo.
"NKR authorities were elected by people while Kosovo authorities were appointed by international organizations," Masis Mailyan says.
Armenia should recognize the independence of Kosovo so that Kosovo will recognize NKR independence in return.
The restraint displayed by Armenia towards recognition of Kosovo since 2008 has not yielded significant results.
Masis Mailyan shares Heritage Chairman Raffi Hovannisian's opinion that Armenian was to recognize NKR independence prior to declaration of independence by Kosovo.
"Taking into consideration the great potential of the Diaspora, Armenian and Karabakh authorities were to take efforts overseas for the international recognition of NKR independence. I mean to say that the recognition of NKR independence requires a few phases while we did little work in this direction."
Speaking about the general opinion that NKR is a part of Armenia, Mr. Mailyan said, "Armenia and Karabakh are quite different countries from the legal point of view but they are united as one security zone."
On July 22, the International Court of Justice said that Kosovo's unilateral secession from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law.
A number of NGOs were going to mark the event in NKR but the celebration was cancelled.
