Theoretically, Uruguay may become the first country to recognize the independence of the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) republic, member of the Uruguayan parliament’s foreign relations committee said.

“Recognition is a political process which needs gradual development,” Ruben Martinez Huelmo told journalists in NKR.

Commenting of the visit of Uruguayan delegation to Artsakh, Mr. Huelmo said, “traveling to Karabakh is not a particularly brave move, it’s merely a step.”

In 1965, Uruguay became the first country to officially recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.