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IT'S NOT UP TO AZERBAIJAN TO ALLOW KARABAKH TO MASTER ITS DESTINY - ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT VICE CHAIR
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November 01, 2012 | 14:07
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev continues making
statements that have no connection with reality, Armenian National
Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov said commenting
on Aliyev's statement that was made Wednesday in Baku and during
official opening of the statue of Azerbaijani opera singer Bulbul. The
Azerbaijani president had stated that Azerbaijan will not permit the
existence of a second Armenian state, and there will come a time when
the statues of Bulbul and other well-known Azerbaijani personalities
will be erected in Nagorno-Karabakh's Shushi city.
"It's not up to Azerbaijan to allow the people of Karabakh [,
or Artsakh,] to master their own destiny. The people of Artsakh
have earned that right in the battlefield and they fixed it with a
referendum," Sharmazanov noted.
"We should recall their [that is, the Azerbaijanis'] former leader
Abulfaz Elchibey's words: 'There is no Azerbaijani, there is only
Turkish.' That is to say, Azerbaijan is nothing but a second
Turkish state," NA Deputy Speaker said, and added: "And with
respect to erecting Bulbul's statue in Shushi, I should note that
its possibility is not exhausted. Azerbaijan must recognize [the
Nagorno-KarabakhRepublic] NKR's independence, establish diplomatic
ties with the Artsakh republic, open an embassy in Shushi, and [only
then can it] place Bulbul's, or any other [Azerbaijani] personalities'
statues in its embassy building, [and] with its own taste."
news.am
November 01, 2012 | 14:07
YEREVAN. - Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev continues making
statements that have no connection with reality, Armenian National
Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov said commenting
on Aliyev's statement that was made Wednesday in Baku and during
official opening of the statue of Azerbaijani opera singer Bulbul. The
Azerbaijani president had stated that Azerbaijan will not permit the
existence of a second Armenian state, and there will come a time when
the statues of Bulbul and other well-known Azerbaijani personalities
will be erected in Nagorno-Karabakh's Shushi city.
"It's not up to Azerbaijan to allow the people of Karabakh [,
or Artsakh,] to master their own destiny. The people of Artsakh
have earned that right in the battlefield and they fixed it with a
referendum," Sharmazanov noted.
"We should recall their [that is, the Azerbaijanis'] former leader
Abulfaz Elchibey's words: 'There is no Azerbaijani, there is only
Turkish.' That is to say, Azerbaijan is nothing but a second
Turkish state," NA Deputy Speaker said, and added: "And with
respect to erecting Bulbul's statue in Shushi, I should note that
its possibility is not exhausted. Azerbaijan must recognize [the
Nagorno-KarabakhRepublic] NKR's independence, establish diplomatic
ties with the Artsakh republic, open an embassy in Shushi, and [only
then can it] place Bulbul's, or any other [Azerbaijani] personalities'
statues in its embassy building, [and] with its own taste."