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    NKR MFA EXPRESSED ITS BEWILDERMENT WITH THE EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL STRUCTURES' RESPONSE TO A REFERENDUM HELD IN KARABAKH

    DeFacto Agency, Armenia
    Dec 14 2006

    The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic MFA expressed its bewilderment with the
    European international structures' response to a referendum held in the
    NKR. According to the NKR MFA, by their statement the international
    structures have attempted to cast doubts on the very fact of the
    possibility of the Nagorno-Karabakh people's being in legal field.

    The Karabakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs' official statement runs,
    in part, "the Ministry notes the referendum is a new stage on the way
    of firming democratic principles in the country's Main Law and the
    development of legislation as a whole and aims to give an impulse
    to the formation and development of new, more liberal principles
    in the sphere of state governance, as well as to the process of
    civil society's formation. In this connection the attempts of
    the European instances, an architecture of which is based on such
    pillars as democracy and superiority of law, to ignore and neglect
    the democratic and legislative processes taking place in the Nagorno-
    Karabakh look at least strange.

    At the same time, the Ministry expresses its conviction that the
    Constitution's adoption will in no way hamper the international
    mediators' constructive attempts to settle the Nagorno- Karabakh
    conflict peacefully.

    If one follows the logic of the last statements, according to which
    the constitutional referendum in the NKR will hamper the negotiations,
    one can conclude that adopting the Constitution of the Azerbaijan
    Republic at a referendum in 1995 and amendments made to it in 2002
    the official Baku pursued namely such an object - to deliver a blow to
    the negotiations held those years. So, why the European structures did
    not criticize Azerbaijan's policy then? It is not the first case for
    the last 15 years, when the representatives of separate international
    organizations respond asymmetrically to the analogous procedures
    taking place in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan. The
    international community's role in influencing on the character of the
    processes in the conflict zone has always been great. Only the fact
    that in 1991 the international community unilaterally recognized the
    results of a referendum on independence in Azerbaijan, but refused
    to recognize an analogues referendum in the Nagorno Karabakh, which
    had been held before it, encouraged Azerbaijan's pretensions to the
    Nagorno-Karabakh, which became the reason of Azerbaijan's aggression
    against the NKR.

    The constitutional referendum in the NKR cannot predetermine the
    outcome of the consultations on the conflict solution being held
    under the OSCE MG aegis. Moreover, a question arises whether the
    position on territorial integrity voiced by Azerbaijan permanently
    and the unitary of Azerbaijani state fixed in the AR Constitution
    are the factors predetermining and violating the logic of the Minsk
    process, which assumed the right to self-determination along with
    other principles as a basis.

    The NKR Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses hope that the European
    structures guided by their fundamental principles will reconsider
    their preconceived attitude to the democratic procedures taking place
    in the Nagorno-Karabakh", the NKR MFA Press Center reports.
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