Karabakh People Will on NK Status Principal

PanARMENIAN.Net - "The present scheme of the OSCE Minsk Group is as follows: majority of territories against a promise for referendum on the NK status. It provides for the withdrawal of the Armenian forces from 5 regions while the rest remains uncertain. In such a case it's naïve to think that the sides can agree on referendum afterwards," says the article PanARMENIAN.Net received from former OSCE MG Russian Co-chair Vladimir Kazimirov. In his words, with such state of things the main problem - the NKR status determination- would remain unsettled and represent danger of war. This issue must not be protracted. The will of the Karabakh people is principal. Caucasus is a delicate region and the international community should undertake to prevent any attempts to settle the problem by threats and bloodshed. Nagorno Karabakh should not be considered somebody's territory and the will of its population should not be neglected," Vladimir Kazimirov considers.



He also remarked that Baku quotes the Azeri Constitution that allows conduction of national referenda only. "However it's worth mentioning that the Azeri Constitution was adopted in 1995 in order to prevent the NK population from expressing will. This transformation of the Organic Law of a state into an instrument of political and propaganda war will lead to irreversible changes in this chapter. Let me also remark that Article 9 of the above mentioned Constitution denies war as "means of settlement of international conflicts," Kazimirov said.



The Russian diplomat pointed out to another fault in the Azeri Constitution that badly troubles Baku in asserting its "heritage". "When repealing the Constitution of 1978 the authors of the Constitution of 1995 failed to give a proper name to their previous republic. Thus the trick with Constitution doesn't work. Nowadays the voting on status is held by those who is immediately concerned in the matter, that is by Quebec but not Canada; by Catalonia but not Spain," the article says.
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