EXPERT: DEMOCRATIC NAGORNO-KARABAKH WILL NEVER BECOME PART OF SULTAN- RULED AZERBAIJAN

by Ashot Safaryan

ARMINFO
Thursday, April 17, 18:20

Democratic Nagorno-Karabakh will never become part of Sultan-ruled
Azerbaijan, Turkologist Ruben Melkonyan told journalists on Thursday
when asked to comment on Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov’s
statement that Azerbaijan is ready to provide Nagorno-Karabakh with
the widest possible autonomy.

“This is not news though Azerbaijan seldom appears with such rhetoric.

Mammadyarov’s statement was a reaction to the Crimean events. In any
case, Nagorno-Karabakh’s being autonomy inside Azerbaijan sounds like
fiction as Nagorno-Karabakh is by far more democratic than Azerbaijan.

How can a democratic republic be part of a sultanate?” Melkonyan said.

From: Baghdasarian