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    ARMENIAN PRESIDENT: WHENEVER ONE REFERS TO THE MOUNTAINOUS KARABAKH CONFLICT, THE NOTION OF TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY SHOULD NOT BE EMPHATICALLY UNDERLINED

    ArmInfo.
    2010-02-10 20:41:00

    ArmInfo. I urge everyone to exercise utmost caution when making
    public statements on the problem of Mountainous Karabakh, President
    of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said during his speech in the Chattem House
    British Royal Institute of International Affairs.

    He also said that one should take into account all the dimensions,
    possible consequences, and the perceptions of the sides, and always
    rely on the positions of the organizations that are familiar
    with the details of the problem and specialize in its peaceful
    resolution: in this case, it would be the OSCE. The problem can only
    be resolved in the context of the international law principles of the
    self-determination of nations, territorial integrity, and the non-
    use of force.

    All the stakeholders now realize this truth. Whenever one refers to
    the Mountainous Karabakh conflict, the notion of territorial integrity
    should not be emphatically underlined, especially that even if that
    notion is perceived to be the only one applying in the case of the
    Mountainous Karabakh conflict, it would not lead to its application
    in the form envisioned by Azerbaijan.

    I would pose a rhetoric question to all who consider themselves
    advocates of territorial integrity. Where were they when the
    Soviet Union collapsed and the borders changed? Where were they
    when Yugoslavia was falling apart? Why do you think that Azerbaijan
    could secede from the USSR, but Mountainous Karabakh could not? Why
    do you think that large empires should disintegrate, but small ones
    should persevere? What is the basis? Instability? I cannot perceive
    it. I do not accept it. Because unfair decisions are the very cause
    of instability.

    Azerbaijan has exhausted the resources of trust in terms of autonomous
    status for minorities within its boundaries. It was not and is not
    capable of providing guarantees of even internal security to such
    autonomies. There was once another Armenian autonomy in Azerbaijan:
    Nakhijevan. What happened to it? Not a single Armenian is left in
    Nakhijevan. Can such guarantees be taken for granted?

    You might say Azerbaijan was different then, and is different now.

    During the last 18 years of that "difference" more Armenian and
    Christian monuments were destroyed than in the preceding 70 years.
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