Baku illegally attempts to question NKR’s sovereignty - official

PanARMENIAN.Net - On March 21, an international scientific-practical round table entitled "The Turkish Factor in the Middle East and in the Post-Soviet Space" took place in Moscow, at the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS).

At the event, adviser to Nagorno Karabakh Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs, Candidate of Historical Sciences Ruben Zargarian delivered a report titled “Nagorno Karabakh and Russia in Integration Projects and Turkey's Position on the Karabakh Conflict.”

In his report, Zargarian dwelled on the basic issues of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict settlement, the destructive and aggressive policy of Azerbaijan, and the international legal position of the NKR. The speaker noted that Azerbaijan's territorial claims for seven reintegrated regions of the NKR should be regarded as unacceptable, inappropriate, and hampering the achievement of a peace agreement between the NKR and Azerbaijan. According to him, the lesson of the unresolved Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict, the increasing threats of the Baku administration to resume the aggression, and the systematic Azerbaijani military provocations on the border is that negotiations are not enough to ensure peace and settlement, and a responsible attitude to international law is needed.

"The Baku administration is openly ignoring international law by taking illegal attempts to question the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the NKR", said the Adviser to the NKR Foreign Minister, noting that a civilized and stable settlement of the Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict must be based on the following five principles: determination of the NKR status is the exclusive right of the people of Nagorno Karabakh; final recognition of the NKR state independence by the international community; mutual recognition of the independence of the NKR and the Azerbaijani Republic; restoration of the territorial integrity of Nagorno Karabakh; peaceful resolution of disputes and non-use of force or threat of force.

The report emphasized the need for the final recognition of the NKR independence as a factor of establishing peace and stability not only in the Caucasus region, but also in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean Neo-Byzantine Civilization, NKR Foreign Ministry press service reported.