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UNIVERSITY OF KENT SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY AGREES WITH ARMENIAN SIDE ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH
Panorama
Dec 20 2011
Armenia
The University of Kent Brussels branch hosted a seminar titled
"Territorial Integrity of a State and Right of Nations to
Self-Determination," attended by NKR Permanent Representative to
Germany Harutyun Grigoryan.
At the event which lasted around three hours, the scientific community
of the University of Kent agreed with the arguments of the Armenian
side on Nagorno-Karabakh.
The event, organized by joint efforts, also hosted representatives
of Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) Brussels office Gaspar Karapetyan, Peto
Demirchyan, and head of central Hay Dat office Giro Manoyan.
The European Center for Artsakh reports that the seminar focused on
preservation of these two important principles of international law
in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process.
A. Grigoryan presented NKR's position on the conflict settlement,
noting that though Artsakh does not avoid considering the issue from
the point of view of territorial integrity of a state, nevertheless,
the basic human rights should not be forgotten.
More, presenting Azerbaijan's statehood from the legal point
of view, A. Grigoryan stressed that during the past 20 years the
principles of territorial integrity of a state and right of a nation
to self-determination are really violated, however, exclusively in
relation to NKR.
"Authorities of this or that state are authorized to demand
preservation of territorial integrity and to extend their powers only
to territories where they were a legitimate state power even if for
some time and where their population lived. In other words, where a
state was established in line with the spirit of the principles of
international law, which ceased to exist in consequence of possible
infringements of the law," Grigoryan said.
At the same time, he reminded that the population of Nagorno-Karabakh
had never had Azerbaijani citizenship and never recognized the
Azerbaijani authorities which never had legitimacy here either in
relation to the territory or the population, they had no such right.
That is to say, Azerbaijani statehood has never existed in
Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Therefore the assertion that Azerbaijan has the right to demand
that the international community ensure Nagorno-Karabakh's autonomy
within the framework of its statehood is a gross mistake. And forced
establishment of state power in the occupied territories, particularly
in the part of territories of Shahumyan, Martakert and Martuni regions
is violation of the international law by the Azerbaijani authorities,"
Grigoryan concluded.
In return, Giro Manoyan highlighted that no state has the right to
exercise state power in the territory of another state without the
consent of that party.
The lecturers and the undergraduates of the University of Kent agreed
with the arguments of the Armenian side.
Panorama
Dec 20 2011
Armenia
The University of Kent Brussels branch hosted a seminar titled
"Territorial Integrity of a State and Right of Nations to
Self-Determination," attended by NKR Permanent Representative to
Germany Harutyun Grigoryan.
At the event which lasted around three hours, the scientific community
of the University of Kent agreed with the arguments of the Armenian
side on Nagorno-Karabakh.
The event, organized by joint efforts, also hosted representatives
of Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) Brussels office Gaspar Karapetyan, Peto
Demirchyan, and head of central Hay Dat office Giro Manoyan.
The European Center for Artsakh reports that the seminar focused on
preservation of these two important principles of international law
in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement process.
A. Grigoryan presented NKR's position on the conflict settlement,
noting that though Artsakh does not avoid considering the issue from
the point of view of territorial integrity of a state, nevertheless,
the basic human rights should not be forgotten.
More, presenting Azerbaijan's statehood from the legal point
of view, A. Grigoryan stressed that during the past 20 years the
principles of territorial integrity of a state and right of a nation
to self-determination are really violated, however, exclusively in
relation to NKR.
"Authorities of this or that state are authorized to demand
preservation of territorial integrity and to extend their powers only
to territories where they were a legitimate state power even if for
some time and where their population lived. In other words, where a
state was established in line with the spirit of the principles of
international law, which ceased to exist in consequence of possible
infringements of the law," Grigoryan said.
At the same time, he reminded that the population of Nagorno-Karabakh
had never had Azerbaijani citizenship and never recognized the
Azerbaijani authorities which never had legitimacy here either in
relation to the territory or the population, they had no such right.
That is to say, Azerbaijani statehood has never existed in
Nagorno-Karabakh.
"Therefore the assertion that Azerbaijan has the right to demand
that the international community ensure Nagorno-Karabakh's autonomy
within the framework of its statehood is a gross mistake. And forced
establishment of state power in the occupied territories, particularly
in the part of territories of Shahumyan, Martakert and Martuni regions
is violation of the international law by the Azerbaijani authorities,"
Grigoryan concluded.
In return, Giro Manoyan highlighted that no state has the right to
exercise state power in the territory of another state without the
consent of that party.
The lecturers and the undergraduates of the University of Kent agreed
with the arguments of the Armenian side.