Armenia must strive to improve distorted perception of Karabakh conflict – expert

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia must strive to improve international community’s distorted perception of Karabakh conflict, according to the head of Political Research Academy NGO.

As Alexander Manasyan told a news conference in Yerevan, “over the last 20 years, Azerbaijan has been instilling the notion of having a legal right to reclaim liberated territories of Artsakh, with Armenia not taking enough effort to refute Baku’s rhetoric.”

“Armenia must make the world aware that not an inch of Azerbaijan’s legal territory was seized,” the expert said. “Back in 1921, when by the illegal decision of Caucasus Bureau Nagorno Karabakh was passed under Azeri control, the separate territories of Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast were not stipulated. Only in 1923, Azerbaijan separated Armenian-populated territories, with Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Oblast formed solely of the latters,” the expert explained.