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MP ASKS PRESS TO CALL MADRID PRINCIPLES 'YEREVAN UNPRINCIPLEDNESS'
epress.am
09.02.2011
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 "Yerevan
unprincipledness" on her behalf.
"First, because self-determination is not the primary step for Artsakh;
on the contrary, it hasn't allowed for Azerbaijan violate the right
to self-determination already acquired by the Artsakh people.
When we say the right to self-determination, we understand that
Artsakh wants to self-determine in today's territory of Republic 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 under its control so-called buffer zones (i.e. "liberated areas").
"That is unacceptable; it's terrible. Those are lands belonging to
Artsakh. Moreover, there are such territories that are also Artsakh
proper, but they are occupied," she said.
epress.am
09.02.2011
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 "Yerevan
unprincipledness" on her behalf.
"First, because self-determination is not the primary step for Artsakh;
on the contrary, it hasn't allowed for Azerbaijan violate the right
to self-determination already acquired by the Artsakh people.
When we say the right to self-determination, we understand that
Artsakh wants to self-determine in today's territory of Republic 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 under its control so-called buffer zones (i.e. "liberated areas").
"That is unacceptable; it's terrible. Those are lands belonging to
Artsakh. Moreover, there are such territories that are also Artsakh
proper, but they are occupied," she said.