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Edward Nalbandian: In response to Karabakh people's free expression of
will Azerbaijan started the large-scale military actions and ethnic
cleansing
2011-01-29 10:12:00
ArmInfo. "It was the decision of the Caucasian Bureau of the Bolshevik
Party that made Karabakh part of Azerbaijan. Of course the population
and people of Nagorno-Karabakh did not agree with that decision. But
the Soviet leaders replied that they did not have any borders between
the states - there were only territorial- administrative borders, we
all lived in one country. But during the collapse of the USSR the
people of Nagorno-Karabakh organized a referendum and 99,89% percent
of population voted for the
independence," Edward Nalbandian, Foreign Minister of Armenia, says in
an interview with Russia Today TV.
He recalled that before that, on the 26th of November 1991, the
Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan liquidated the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomy
as a national and territorial entity.
"In two days time the Constitutional Supervision Committee of the USSR
- it still existed back then - condemned that decision. The referendum
took place almost two or three weeks later, in December. The voting
showed that not just majority, but almost all the people were for
Nagorno-Karabakh's independence. In response to that, Azerbaijan
started the large-scale military actions and ethnic cleansing both in
Karabakh and other settlements of Azerbaijan. Actually, it was an
aggression against Karabakh," he says.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out on February 28 1988 in the
Azerbaijani Sumgait with massacre of Armenians as a peculiar response
of Azerbaijanis to the peaceful demand of the Nagorno-Karabakh
autonomous Region, part of the Azerbaijani SSR, to unite with the
Armenian SSR. This resulted in other pogroms of Armenians in Baku,
Kirovabad and other regions of Azerbaijan populated with Armenians. In
1991 Azerbaijan unleashed war against peaceful populations of
Nagorno-Karabakh, expulsing ethnic Armenians from the territory of
Azerbaijan. Dozens of thousands of peaceful residents on both parties
were killed in the military actions, and hundreds of thousands were
left homeless and have become refugees. In 1994 in Bishkek in
mediation of the OSCE MG, the NKR, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a
Protocol on Ceasefire that is observed more or less so far.
From: A. Papazian
will Azerbaijan started the large-scale military actions and ethnic
cleansing
2011-01-29 10:12:00
ArmInfo. "It was the decision of the Caucasian Bureau of the Bolshevik
Party that made Karabakh part of Azerbaijan. Of course the population
and people of Nagorno-Karabakh did not agree with that decision. But
the Soviet leaders replied that they did not have any borders between
the states - there were only territorial- administrative borders, we
all lived in one country. But during the collapse of the USSR the
people of Nagorno-Karabakh organized a referendum and 99,89% percent
of population voted for the
independence," Edward Nalbandian, Foreign Minister of Armenia, says in
an interview with Russia Today TV.
He recalled that before that, on the 26th of November 1991, the
Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan liquidated the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomy
as a national and territorial entity.
"In two days time the Constitutional Supervision Committee of the USSR
- it still existed back then - condemned that decision. The referendum
took place almost two or three weeks later, in December. The voting
showed that not just majority, but almost all the people were for
Nagorno-Karabakh's independence. In response to that, Azerbaijan
started the large-scale military actions and ethnic cleansing both in
Karabakh and other settlements of Azerbaijan. Actually, it was an
aggression against Karabakh," he says.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict broke out on February 28 1988 in the
Azerbaijani Sumgait with massacre of Armenians as a peculiar response
of Azerbaijanis to the peaceful demand of the Nagorno-Karabakh
autonomous Region, part of the Azerbaijani SSR, to unite with the
Armenian SSR. This resulted in other pogroms of Armenians in Baku,
Kirovabad and other regions of Azerbaijan populated with Armenians. In
1991 Azerbaijan unleashed war against peaceful populations of
Nagorno-Karabakh, expulsing ethnic Armenians from the territory of
Azerbaijan. Dozens of thousands of peaceful residents on both parties
were killed in the military actions, and hundreds of thousands were
left homeless and have become refugees. In 1994 in Bishkek in
mediation of the OSCE MG, the NKR, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a
Protocol on Ceasefire that is observed more or less so far.
From: A. Papazian