15% of NKR territory under Azeri occupation up till now

PanARMENIAN.Net - Official Baku often refers to international recognition of the Republic of Azerbaijan (RA) within arbitrary interpretation of its "internationally recognized borders", which does not have any connection with the reality, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Masis Mailyan stated. He said, in international law the recognition of a state does not mean automatic recognition of its borders declared by that very state as a his own borders. "The world practice supposes that the issue of territorial delimitation between neighboring states can be resolved only in case of mutual recognition by both sides of the state independence and existence of diplomatic relations. Any attempts to resolve issues of territorial delimitation out of ties to recognize as a subject of international law and state independence by one of the parties is illegal from the very beginning," Mailyan underscored.



In his opinion, the matter must concerns not the territories as such, but specification of state borders of NKR and Azerbaijan, and the work of intergovernmental commission on delimitation and demarcation of de facto existing borders between NKR and Azerbaijan is possible only in case if Azerbaijan recognizes the state independence of Artsakh. "During delimitation process we must proceed from the territorial realities that received legal wording in the newly adopted NKR Constitution, taking into account that the imperative of providing the right of Artsakh citizens to physical security and state independence can serve as the only criteria. It is quite obvious for me that our country cannot independently develop and provide its military and food security within the enclave borders of the former NKAR, which was wrong from the very beginning. Discussing issues of territories and borders we must constantly remember and the circumstance that 15% of NKR territory, on which the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was proclaimed, is under Azeri occupation up till now," Masis Mailyan said, KarabakhOpen.com reports.