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    ARMENIAN PRESIDENT-ELECT HAILS KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE

    ITAR-TASS
    March 12 2008
    Russia

    Yerevan, 12 March: Yerevan advocates the free realisation of the
    right of peoples for self-determination,Armenia's President-elect
    Serzh Sargsyan said on Wednesday.

    "From this perspective we hail Kosovo's independence, " he said.

    However, the president-elect does not consider Kosovo as a "precedent"
    for solving the Nagornyy-Karabakhproblem, as "we are not going to
    recognise the independence of Nagornyy-Karabakh in a foreseeable
    future," he said.

    Armenia "should not consider Kosovo as a precedent for itself, as
    the problem of Nagornyy-Karabakh substantiallydiffers from Kosovo".

    "From a legal perspective, Nagornyy-Karabakh differs from other similar
    regions, and we do not have the right toequate Nagornyy-Karabakh with
    anybody," Sarkisyan said.

    He added that Nagornyy-Karabakh "declared the independence in
    accordance with laws of the USSR".
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