Nagorno-Karabakh settlement does not depend on election: diplomat

ITAR-TASS, Russia
July 20, 2012 Friday 02:11 PM GMT+4

MOSCOW July 20

Russia sees no direct connection between the recent presidential
election in the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and the
process of a peaceful settlement of the conflict, Russian Foreign
Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Friday.

“Moscow does not believe that the results of a peace process in
Nagorno-Karabakh could depend on the holding of elections there,” he
stressed. The diplomat noted that the official position of three
co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group (the United States, France and
Russia) on the Thursday election in Nagorno-Karabakh will be posted on
the official website of the OSCE on Friday.

Lukashevich marked that “like all other countries” Moscow does not
recognize the mostly Armenian populated Azerbaijani enclave of
Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state,

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS