Azerbaijan has no right to guarantee Karabakh’s security – Armenian minister
Arminfo
21 Mar 05
Yerevan, 21 March: Nagornyy Karabakh gained independence in line
with all the laws and constitutions that were valid in that period,
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said in an interview with
Armenian Public TV.
He said that apart from this, Nagornyy Karabakh declared its
independence on the territory which had never been part of Azerbaijan
because when the Azerbaijani state was founded for the first time in
1918, Nagornyy Karabakh was not an integral part of it.
Another important component, which is passed over in silence
for unknown reasons, is the violation of the people’s right to
self-determination in the context of human rights violations, because
when the people of Karabakh attempted to declare their independence,
Azerbaijan decided to resolve this problem by exterminating a
whole people. For this reason, today Azerbaijan does not have the
moral right to give any security guarantees to the Karabakh people.
Azerbaijan has already lost this right in the context of human rights,
the Armenian foreign minister said.