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Top QC: time to recognize Karabakh as independent state
October 4, 2013 - 19:30 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - An international conference Artsakh Liberation
Struggle: From Gulistan Till Our Days kicked off in Stepanakert.
The event, held in the framework of the Karabakh national liberation
struggle 25th anniversary hosted acclaimed scientists from Arsakh,
Armenia, Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Austria, Belgium,
Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon among other countries.
As Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan stated in his address, the
Armenian nation's aspiration for an independent life and the
restoration of national statehood is one of the lengthiest national
liberation movements in world's history, with regaining sovereign and
powerful national statehood, ensuring its continuous development as an
inalterable supreme strategic goal.
Dwelling on the current stage of state building, the President noted
that there's no return to the past, with Artsakh's independence and
safety not to be to be bargained.
A human rights barrister, top QC Geoffrey Robertson, in turn, noted
that the international legislation is developing a clause stipulating
for bypassing of the territorial integrity principle where a crime
against humanity was perpetrated.
As he noted, the international law provides a right for secession when
the nation's fundamental rights are violated. `It's time to recognize
Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state,' he stressed.
According to the Artsakh Foreign Minister's adviser Arsen
Melik-Shahnazarov, in Soviet period, the communist historiography
falsified the role of the Gulistan Treaty in the history of the
Armenian nation - as an importan stage on the way to liberation of the
Eastern Armenia from colonial rule of Persia. It was this treaty that
stipulated for the transfer of a number of Armenian territories from
Persia to Russia, which had a clearly positive effect in preservation
of the people's safety as well as their political and economic
development.
From: A. Papazian
October 4, 2013 - 19:30 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - An international conference Artsakh Liberation
Struggle: From Gulistan Till Our Days kicked off in Stepanakert.
The event, held in the framework of the Karabakh national liberation
struggle 25th anniversary hosted acclaimed scientists from Arsakh,
Armenia, Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Austria, Belgium,
Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon among other countries.
As Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan stated in his address, the
Armenian nation's aspiration for an independent life and the
restoration of national statehood is one of the lengthiest national
liberation movements in world's history, with regaining sovereign and
powerful national statehood, ensuring its continuous development as an
inalterable supreme strategic goal.
Dwelling on the current stage of state building, the President noted
that there's no return to the past, with Artsakh's independence and
safety not to be to be bargained.
A human rights barrister, top QC Geoffrey Robertson, in turn, noted
that the international legislation is developing a clause stipulating
for bypassing of the territorial integrity principle where a crime
against humanity was perpetrated.
As he noted, the international law provides a right for secession when
the nation's fundamental rights are violated. `It's time to recognize
Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state,' he stressed.
According to the Artsakh Foreign Minister's adviser Arsen
Melik-Shahnazarov, in Soviet period, the communist historiography
falsified the role of the Gulistan Treaty in the history of the
Armenian nation - as an importan stage on the way to liberation of the
Eastern Armenia from colonial rule of Persia. It was this treaty that
stipulated for the transfer of a number of Armenian territories from
Persia to Russia, which had a clearly positive effect in preservation
of the people's safety as well as their political and economic
development.
From: A. Papazian