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KARABAKH IS OCCUPIED. MADRID PRINCIPLES SHOULD BE CALLED 'UNPRINCIPLED YEREVAN,' SAYS ARMENIAN MP
Armenia Diaspora
http://www.armeniadiaspora.com/news/4568-karabakh-is-occupied-madrid-principles-should-be-called-unprincipled-yerevan--says-armenian-mp.html
Sept 2 2011
Epress.am -- The ridiculous question "Why don't the people from
Artsakh [the unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh] go back to
Artsakh?" wouldn't be heard today if there was no proclamation of
the liberation of Artsakh and no victory in the 90s of the national
liberation struggle, said NKR Supreme Council foreign relations
committee expert, MP Larisa Alaverdyan, celebrating Nagorno-Karabakh
"Liberation Day" at a press conference in Yerevan on Friday.
"I truly congratulate progressive Armenians. If it wasn't for that
proclamation and if we didn't win in the national liberation struggle,
picture the situation of the Republic of Armenia for a moment.
Everyone must understand that we fought for a united Armenia,"
she said.
Alaverdyan considered unacceptable Armenia's position on
Nagorno-Karbakh in the international arena, saying that Armenia
presents the conflict as being distorted.
The opposition MP criticized the Madrid Principles, which have
become the basis of negotiations between the presidents of Armenia
and Azerbaijan, and she asked journalists to call them "unprincipled
Yerevan" on her behalf.
"First, because self-determination is not the primary issue for
Artsakh; on the contrary, it hasn't allowed for Azerbaijan to
trample on the right to self-determination already acquired by
Artsakh Armenians. When we speak of the right to self-determination,
we understand that what Artsakh wants is self-determination in the
present territory of Azerbaijan," she said.
The NKR Supreme Council foreign relations committee expert
declared that it is written in a document being discussed with
representatives of Artsakh's National Assembly in the framework of
an Armenia-Artsakh inter-parliamentary cooperation committee that
Artsakh was forced to take control of a buffer zone from seven regions
around Nagorno-Karabakh.
"This is unacceptable and unawful. Those lands belong to Artsakh. In
fact, there are still areas that also belong to Artsakh, but they
are under occupation," she said.
Armenia Diaspora
http://www.armeniadiaspora.com/news/4568-karabakh-is-occupied-madrid-principles-should-be-called-unprincipled-yerevan--says-armenian-mp.html
Sept 2 2011
Epress.am -- The ridiculous question "Why don't the people from
Artsakh [the unrecognized Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh] go back to
Artsakh?" wouldn't be heard today if there was no proclamation of
the liberation of Artsakh and no victory in the 90s of the national
liberation struggle, said NKR Supreme Council foreign relations
committee expert, MP Larisa Alaverdyan, celebrating Nagorno-Karabakh
"Liberation Day" at a press conference in Yerevan on Friday.
"I truly congratulate progressive Armenians. If it wasn't for that
proclamation and if we didn't win in the national liberation struggle,
picture the situation of the Republic of Armenia for a moment.
Everyone must understand that we fought for a united Armenia,"
she said.
Alaverdyan considered unacceptable Armenia's position on
Nagorno-Karbakh in the international arena, saying that Armenia
presents the conflict as being distorted.
The opposition MP criticized the Madrid Principles, which have
become the basis of negotiations between the presidents of Armenia
and Azerbaijan, and she asked journalists to call them "unprincipled
Yerevan" on her behalf.
"First, because self-determination is not the primary issue for
Artsakh; on the contrary, it hasn't allowed for Azerbaijan to
trample on the right to self-determination already acquired by
Artsakh Armenians. When we speak of the right to self-determination,
we understand that what Artsakh wants is self-determination in the
present territory of Azerbaijan," she said.
The NKR Supreme Council foreign relations committee expert
declared that it is written in a document being discussed with
representatives of Artsakh's National Assembly in the framework of
an Armenia-Artsakh inter-parliamentary cooperation committee that
Artsakh was forced to take control of a buffer zone from seven regions
around Nagorno-Karabakh.
"This is unacceptable and unawful. Those lands belong to Artsakh. In
fact, there are still areas that also belong to Artsakh, but they
are under occupation," she said.