Violation of Karabakh territorial integrity conflicts with international law and historic justice

PanARMENIAN.Net - Azerbaijani propaganda myth posing Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh as winners and Azerbaijan as a victim must be debunked, said an advisor to the NKR Foreign Minister.



"Actually, Azerbaijan had annexed historical Armenian lands, namely Nakhijevan, Northern Nagorno Karabakh and a part of the Nagorno Karabakh republic while Turkey had seized Western Armenia and a part of Eastern Armenia (Kars province). The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923 and in Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh in 1988-1994 remained unpunished. Under the circumstances, when 9/10 of the territory of Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh are under Azeri and Turkish control, calls for other territorial concessions are absolutely illegal and preposterous," Ruben Zargaryan wrote in "Karabakh Reconquista" peace of opinion obtained by PanARMENIAN.Net



"Allowance of Azerbaijan's territorial claims to historical Armenian lands will crown the Turkish-Azeri aggression and genocide in 1928-20 and ethnic cleansing against the Armenian population in 1988-92. Violation of Nagorno Karabakh's territorial integrity conflicts with the international law and historical justice. Surrender of any territory will damage efficiency of the NKR defense army. Azerbaijan should be forced to an agreement on non-use of force, which would also include international guarantees. No one should forget that NKR and Armenia are dealing with an aggressor state, which continues the armament drive and threatens to frustrate peaceful talks. As a matter of fact, the Azeri authorities used Georgia and South Ossetia as a testing area for further development of blitzkrieg plans," he said.