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ARMENIANS' CHANCES TO LEGITIMIZE SECESSION LOW AFTER COURT'S OPINION ON KOSOVO
news.az
July 28 2010
Azerbaijan
Vugar Seyidov The International Court has passed a legally correct
opinion.
AzerTAj reports that the statement came from political reviewer
Vugar Seyidov.
"On the one hand, he did not confirm the fact of irreversible change
in the territory of Serbia and did not state the appearance of a new
state-Kosovo. The court just stated that the declaration of Kosovo
independence is not prohibited, since international law does not have
either a ban or permission to adopt declaration with no sense.
They are without sense because the Court did not even consider the
issues on legal implications of the adoption of declaration and
refused to answer the question whether a new state appeared in the
Balkans in the result of this declaration (see article 51 of the Court
decision). The court was just answering the question set by the UN
General Assembly recognizing only the narrowness of its frames. The
court did not go beyond the frames of the question. Therefore, when
Armenian Defense Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan says that the
court "has shown that the right for self-determination is primary
while territorial integrity is aimed to serve this primary goal",
he is demonstrating his incompetence to the world about which we
have no objections. The court even did not consider the issue of
self-determination and territorial integrity. Any competent person will
see it after getting familiar with the text of the Court's opinion.
"On the other hand, the states which decided to recognize Kosovo
have supported the victim of the conflict-the people that suffered
the deportation from native lands and physical termination. Civilized
world has demonstrated that it does not intend to reconcile with rule
violations of human rights and forgive grave crimes such as ethnic
cleansing, termination of civil population, shooting of refugees,
looting, plunder and so on.
But it is really important in the resolution of the Court that
article 81 says clearly that in definite cases when independence is
declared on the background of crimes against humanity, aggression,
ethnic cleansing, genocide and steps on unilateral proclamation of
independence may even be condemned. There is no need to prove that
proclamation of independence by Armenian separatists was accompanied by
all these crimes, plus aggression and occupation by Armenia, policy of
illegal settlement of occupied lands and factual annexation of Nagorno
Karabakh by Armenia. Thus, the Court's decision on Kosovo creates
a brilliant precedent for condemnation of unilateral declaration of
Karabakh independence.
Armenia considers that the chances of Karabakh Armenians for
independence have increased after the resolution of the Hague Court
on Kosovo. But I think they have even dropped!", Seyidov said.
From: A. Papazian
news.az
July 28 2010
Azerbaijan
Vugar Seyidov The International Court has passed a legally correct
opinion.
AzerTAj reports that the statement came from political reviewer
Vugar Seyidov.
"On the one hand, he did not confirm the fact of irreversible change
in the territory of Serbia and did not state the appearance of a new
state-Kosovo. The court just stated that the declaration of Kosovo
independence is not prohibited, since international law does not have
either a ban or permission to adopt declaration with no sense.
They are without sense because the Court did not even consider the
issues on legal implications of the adoption of declaration and
refused to answer the question whether a new state appeared in the
Balkans in the result of this declaration (see article 51 of the Court
decision). The court was just answering the question set by the UN
General Assembly recognizing only the narrowness of its frames. The
court did not go beyond the frames of the question. Therefore, when
Armenian Defense Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan says that the
court "has shown that the right for self-determination is primary
while territorial integrity is aimed to serve this primary goal",
he is demonstrating his incompetence to the world about which we
have no objections. The court even did not consider the issue of
self-determination and territorial integrity. Any competent person will
see it after getting familiar with the text of the Court's opinion.
"On the other hand, the states which decided to recognize Kosovo
have supported the victim of the conflict-the people that suffered
the deportation from native lands and physical termination. Civilized
world has demonstrated that it does not intend to reconcile with rule
violations of human rights and forgive grave crimes such as ethnic
cleansing, termination of civil population, shooting of refugees,
looting, plunder and so on.
But it is really important in the resolution of the Court that
article 81 says clearly that in definite cases when independence is
declared on the background of crimes against humanity, aggression,
ethnic cleansing, genocide and steps on unilateral proclamation of
independence may even be condemned. There is no need to prove that
proclamation of independence by Armenian separatists was accompanied by
all these crimes, plus aggression and occupation by Armenia, policy of
illegal settlement of occupied lands and factual annexation of Nagorno
Karabakh by Armenia. Thus, the Court's decision on Kosovo creates
a brilliant precedent for condemnation of unilateral declaration of
Karabakh independence.
Armenia considers that the chances of Karabakh Armenians for
independence have increased after the resolution of the Hague Court
on Kosovo. But I think they have even dropped!", Seyidov said.
From: A. Papazian