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ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT DECLINES ZHARANGUTIUN PARTY'S INITIATIVE ON RECOGNITION OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH REPUBLIC'S INDEPENDENCE
/ARKA/
4 October, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, October 4. /ARKA/. Armenian government has declined
Zharangutiun (Heritage) party's initiative on recognition of
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's independence, Novosti-Armenia reported
on Thursday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kochayan, speaking today at a
regular Cabinet meeting, said he found it not reasonable to discuss
the matter now.
Talk about the necessity of official recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic's recognition by Armenia intensified in early September after
Hungary extradited Lt. Ramil Safarov who had hacked Armenian officer
Gurgen Margaryan to death with an axe when the latter was sleeping.
Both officers were attending the NATO-sponsored language course in
Budapest in February 2004. Safarov was sentences by Hungarian court to
life in prison but after the extradition was pardoned by Azerbaijani
President Ilkham Aliev.
In early September, the party's faction asked the Parliament to
consider the bill on recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, but
the bill was rejected.
Zharangutiun has repeatedly come up with this initiative. In December
2010, the majority of Armenian National Assembly voted down a similar
bill. Only 13 MPs voted for it.
Zharangutiun (Heritage), a national liberal party, was founded in
2002 by Raffi Hovhannisian, a former foreign minister. Now the party
has some 5,000 members. In the 2012 parliamentary elections the party
won five seats in the National Assembly.
Karabakh conflict broke out in 1988 when Karabakh, mainly populated
by Armenians, declared its independence from Azerbaijan.
On December 10, 1991, a few days after the collapse of the Soviet
Union, a referendum took place in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the majority
of the population (99.89%) voted for secession from Azerbaijan.
Afterwards, large-scale military operations began. As a result,
Azerbaijan lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven regions
adjacent to it.
Some 30,000 people were killed in this war and about one million
people fled their homes.
On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the
military operations.
Since 1992, talks brokered by OSCE Minsk Group are being held over
peaceful settlement of the conflict. The group is co-chaired by USA,
Russia and France.
/ARKA/
4 October, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, October 4. /ARKA/. Armenian government has declined
Zharangutiun (Heritage) party's initiative on recognition of
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's independence, Novosti-Armenia reported
on Thursday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kochayan, speaking today at a
regular Cabinet meeting, said he found it not reasonable to discuss
the matter now.
Talk about the necessity of official recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic's recognition by Armenia intensified in early September after
Hungary extradited Lt. Ramil Safarov who had hacked Armenian officer
Gurgen Margaryan to death with an axe when the latter was sleeping.
Both officers were attending the NATO-sponsored language course in
Budapest in February 2004. Safarov was sentences by Hungarian court to
life in prison but after the extradition was pardoned by Azerbaijani
President Ilkham Aliev.
In early September, the party's faction asked the Parliament to
consider the bill on recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, but
the bill was rejected.
Zharangutiun has repeatedly come up with this initiative. In December
2010, the majority of Armenian National Assembly voted down a similar
bill. Only 13 MPs voted for it.
Zharangutiun (Heritage), a national liberal party, was founded in
2002 by Raffi Hovhannisian, a former foreign minister. Now the party
has some 5,000 members. In the 2012 parliamentary elections the party
won five seats in the National Assembly.
Karabakh conflict broke out in 1988 when Karabakh, mainly populated
by Armenians, declared its independence from Azerbaijan.
On December 10, 1991, a few days after the collapse of the Soviet
Union, a referendum took place in Nagorno-Karabakh, and the majority
of the population (99.89%) voted for secession from Azerbaijan.
Afterwards, large-scale military operations began. As a result,
Azerbaijan lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh and the seven regions
adjacent to it.
Some 30,000 people were killed in this war and about one million
people fled their homes.
On May 12, 1994, the Bishkek cease-fire agreement put an end to the
military operations.
Since 1992, talks brokered by OSCE Minsk Group are being held over
peaceful settlement of the conflict. The group is co-chaired by USA,
Russia and France.