news.am, Armenia
Dec 5 2009
Levon Zurabyan: Athens statement `just awful’
17:37 / 12/04/2009The statement issued by the Foreign Ministers of the
OSCE Minsk Group, Armenia and Azerbaijan on December 1 is `just
awful,’ Levon Zurabyan, Levon Zurabyan, the Coordinator of the Central
Office, Armenian National Congress (ANC), told a press conference on
December 4.
`Armenia has for the first time officially admitted that the
Nagorno-Karabakh problem can be settled on the basis of Azerbaijan’s
territorial integrity,’ he said. Zurabyan pointed out that, as an OSCE
member-state, Armenia exercised its right of veto if developments took
an unfavorable turn, but the December 1 statement brought all the
previous work ton nought.
`Now they are trying to deceive us and make us believe that the
nations’ right to self-determination is incorporated in the document.
This is an absurd argument. Simultaneous application of the principles
of self-determination and territorial integrity means that nations are
supposed to exercise their right to self-determination on the
principle of territorial integrity,’ Zurabyan said.
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