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ARA PAPYAN: ARMENIAN SIDE CAN APPLY TO INTERNATIONAL COURT
Aysor
July 15 2010
Armenia
The Armenian side should litigate any authority of Azerbaijan towards
Karabakh, taking international law as a basis. Former ambassador,
"Modus Vivendi" Center Head Ara Papyan said at a discussion today.
According to the expert, speaking about probability of making
concessions the Armenian side strengthens Azerbaijani side's positions
giving them a possibility of making further demands.
"Azerbaijan keeps speaking about giving autonomy status to Nagorno
Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan only, and our statements on our
readiness to make concessions change the issue from the dictate to
demand complete independence of Artsakh up to the issue of liberated
territories return," the speaker noted adding that the Armenian side
should clarify its position on its own variant of resolution.
According to the former ambassador, the Armenian side should apply
to some authoritative specialists of international law for them to
clarify the problem of "whether independent Azerbaijan's supremacy
over Nagorno Karabakh has been ever stipulated."
"The assessment of authoritative specialists will be a basis for OSCE
Minsk Group co-chairs," he said adding that the Armenian side can also
apply to the International Court of Justice on that issue. The speaker
is convinced that independent experts' assessment unequivocally will
be that Nagorno Karabakh has never been part of independent Azerbaijan,
and being part of Soviet Azerbaijan as an autonomous region was merely
consequence of USSR administrative-territorial division.
From: A. Papazian
Aysor
July 15 2010
Armenia
The Armenian side should litigate any authority of Azerbaijan towards
Karabakh, taking international law as a basis. Former ambassador,
"Modus Vivendi" Center Head Ara Papyan said at a discussion today.
According to the expert, speaking about probability of making
concessions the Armenian side strengthens Azerbaijani side's positions
giving them a possibility of making further demands.
"Azerbaijan keeps speaking about giving autonomy status to Nagorno
Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan only, and our statements on our
readiness to make concessions change the issue from the dictate to
demand complete independence of Artsakh up to the issue of liberated
territories return," the speaker noted adding that the Armenian side
should clarify its position on its own variant of resolution.
According to the former ambassador, the Armenian side should apply
to some authoritative specialists of international law for them to
clarify the problem of "whether independent Azerbaijan's supremacy
over Nagorno Karabakh has been ever stipulated."
"The assessment of authoritative specialists will be a basis for OSCE
Minsk Group co-chairs," he said adding that the Armenian side can also
apply to the International Court of Justice on that issue. The speaker
is convinced that independent experts' assessment unequivocally will
be that Nagorno Karabakh has never been part of independent Azerbaijan,
and being part of Soviet Azerbaijan as an autonomous region was merely
consequence of USSR administrative-territorial division.
From: A. Papazian