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    AZERBAIJAN MUST RECOGNIZE KARABAKH PRIOR TO DIALOGUE - NAGORNO-KARABAKH MFA

    news.am
    Dec 9 2011
    Armenia

    STEPANAKERT.- Azerbaijani authorities are actively pushing the
    notion of "inter-community" to distort the essence of the Karabakh
    issue and transform the existing trilateral format of the conflict
    into a bilateral one, which is favorable for official Baku, says the
    statement issued by Nagorno-Karabakh MFA. Armenian News-NEWS.am posts
    the full text.

    "TheAzerbaijani-Karabakh conflict is the consequence of official
    Baku's inability to display civilized approaches to the solution
    of the issue, which occurred as a result of the natural process
    of disintegration during the USSR collapse. The Nagorno-Karabakh
    Republic, which had been established in full accordance with the then
    legislation and all the international norms, became an object of
    Azerbaijan's full-scale aggression aimed at physical extermination
    of the NKR citizens. Having lost the war, which it had unleashed,
    Baku, unfortunately, became more sophisticated in its intrigues and
    provocations in the political field. The attempts to introduce the
    Karabakh conflict as "inter-community" are a propaganda trick of
    official Baku, trying to distract the international community from
    the real essence of the issue, which testifies again to Azerbaijani
    authorities' lacking a political will and desire for a peaceful
    settlement of the conflict.

    The "inter-community" format pursues far-reaching goals, in particular,
    unilateral return of Azerbaijani refugees to Nagorno-Karabakh without
    resolving the issue of the 500,000 Armenians deported from Azerbaijan;
    turning the issue of former "colony" and former "metropolis" into
    inter-ethnic problems of the region's inhabitants, while it is a
    consequence of the general discrimination policy of the Azerbaijani
    authorities towards the Karabakh Armenians; ignoring the factor of
    the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's being an entity, and introducing
    the established Karabakh state as a region in Azerbaijan's structure
    with equal rights of two communities. On Baku's consideration, all
    the abovementioned should ultimately become the basis for the issue's
    solution in the radically nonviable format of "self-determination of
    Nagorno-Karabakh within Azerbaijan."

    The Karabakh party considers the "inter-community" approach is not
    only non-perspective, but also extremely dangerous, as it leads the
    peacemaking process to a deadlock and discredits the very idea of
    peacemaking, causing additional tension and non-confidence between
    the societies of the conflicting parties.

    The attempt of artificial granting of this status to the Azerbaijani
    minority has no legal basis; it contradicts, in particular,
    the OSCE Budapest Summit resolution (1994) on the recognition of
    Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent party to the conflict, without
    noting the "communities." The right of the Nagorno-Karabakh population
    to self-determination didn't depend on the existence of consensus
    between the Armenians and Azerbaijanis. The former citizens of
    Nagorno-Karabakh of Azerbaijani origin, to whom the Karabakh
    authorities gave the chance of participating in the voting and
    resolving the future fate of the region, preferred leaving Karabakh
    and becoming citizens of the newly proclaimed Azerbaijani Republic.

    A constructive dialogue between the NKR citizens and former
    Azerbaijani citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh is possible only after
    the legal recognition of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Only direct
    negotiations between the political leadership of Nagorno-Karabakh and
    Azerbaijan can give specific results on the comprehensive settlement
    of the issue and establishment of long-term peace in the region."



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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