Armenian expert: CIS web-site has not published anything new

PanARMENIAN.Net - "It seams an entire group of people in Azerbaijan work only to find any kind of statements in the internet which do not blend with the official ideology of Baku and with the help of governmental support to try to "correct" them," expert on international law Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan commented to the PanARMENIAN.Net on some articles published in Azeri media as if a "pro-Armenian" mistake was committed in an information concerning Armenian, which was posted on the web-site of CIS. Particularly, Baku is angry at an extract, which says that Nagorno Karabakh was handed over to Azerbaijan by Moscow's decision in 1921. Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan said the CIS web-site has not published anything new. "Nagorno Karabakh was rally put in the boundaries of Azerbaijani SSR on July 5, 1921 (a misprint occurred in the information, which indicates to 1920) by the decision of Caucasian Bureau of Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) - a non-constitutional party body of a third country. In fact, Russian Bolsheviks arbitrary used an Armenian land (territory populated by Armenians!), handing it over to soviet Azerbaijan," the Armenian expert underlined.



He thinks Azerbaijan fears from the fact that Karabakh was put namely within the boundaries of soviet Azerbaijan. "Baku is well informed that according to the Soviet legislation in case if any soviet republic becomes independent, territories obtained by that republic during the soviet reign should have been agreed with the Central authorities of the USSR. I don't speak even about the fact that self-determination of the Azeri Republic in 1991 was carried out without referendum and taking into account opinion of the population, which is characterized by the international law as usurpation of territories first of all populated with native nations. Azerbaijan also tried to usurp the power in Nagorno Karabakh, however they did not succeed there. Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh, who proclaimed their independence in accordance with international and Union law, managed to protect their independence.



Actually and I'd like to draw attention to this fact, Nagorno Karabakh has never been a part of Azerbaijan during the history: neither in 1918-20, nor 1920-91 nor after it. Karabakh was put within the bounds of soviet Azerbaijan from July of 1921 but only within the USSR. Residents of Nagorno Karabakh were citizens of the USSR and not Azerbaijan, they served in the Soviet Army, and not Azeri army, they were living in the legal field of the USSR, and not Azerbaijan. Nagorno Karabakh - a subject of USSR federation - had its representatives in the Supreme body of the USSR. Prosecutor of Nagorno Karabakh carried out the state inspectorate of the region, who was appointed by the Prosecutor General of the USSR. Thus, the matter is only about putting Nagorno Karabakh within the boundaries of Azerbaijan, it was not a part of soviet Azerbaijan. In this sense the CIS web-site has not provided the full truth," Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan said.