Nalbandian: Armenia welcomes South Sudan’s independence referendum

Nalbandian: Armenia welcomes South Sudan’s independence referendum

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia is welcoming the referendum held in South Sudan, RA Foreign Minister said.

“The published preliminary results of the referendum, which surely will not be essentially different from the final results, confirmed one more time, that the self-determination is an inseparable right of every nation,” Edward Nalbandian stated.

“Already 60 years, since the establishment of the UN, this choice of the people of South Sudan is the freshest example of the victory march of the right of self-determination, and a right way to solve the existing problems that is absolutely welcomed by the international community. We hope that by choosing the way of determining its own destiny, through expression of its will, South Sudan will succeed in the establishment and the accomplishment of an independent statehood,” he said.

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