Armenia& Artsakh Are Integral Territorially

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British politician: It's time to recognize Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state
by Tatevik Shahunyan
October 5, 2013
http://www.arminfo.info/index.cfm?objectid=BB78A1B0-2DC1-11E3-98590EB7C0D21663

It's time to recognize Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state, said a human rights barrister, top QC Geoffrey Robertson at an international conference Artsakh Liberation Struggle: From Gulistan Till Our Days that has kicked off in Stepanakert.

He said that the international legislation is developing a clause stipulating for bypassing of the territorial integrity principle [correction: territorial integrity of Armenia means Armenia & Karabakh are one] where a crime against humanity was perpetrated.

 

As he noted in the conferance, the international law provides a right for secession when the nation's fundamental rights are violated. He said that Nagorno Karabakh became part of Azerbaijan as a result of historical injustice [correction: Artsakh was never made part of Azerbaijan but locally was put under Azeri supervision administration for Russian political manipulation purposes].

 

"It's time to recognize Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state," he said in the conferance and recalled Monaco and Liechtenstein and even Vatican.

He recalled the final criteria of statehood set in the Montevideo Convention: permanent population, a defined territory; government; and capacity to enter into relations with the other states. Nagorno-Karabakh has all criteria to be named an independent state, he said for conclusion.

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Top QC: time to recognize Karabakh as independent state

October 4, 2013

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/170874/

 

PanARMENIAN.Net - An international conference Artsakh Liberation Struggle: From Gulistan Till Our Days kicked off in Stepanakert.

The event, held in the framework of the Karabakh national liberation struggle 25th anniversary hosted acclaimed scientists from Arsakh, Armenia, Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon among other countries.

As Karabakh President Bako Sahakyan stated in his address, the Armenian nation’s aspiration for an independent life and the restoration of national statehood is one of the lengthiest national liberation movements in world’s history, with regaining sovereign and powerful national statehood, ensuring its continuous development as an inalterable supreme strategic goal.

Dwelling on the current stage of state building, the President noted that there’s no return to the past, with Artsakh’s independence and safety not to be to be bargained.

A human rights barrister, top QC Geoffrey Robertson, in turn, noted that the international legislation is developing a clause stipulating for bypassing of the territorial integrity principle where a crime against humanity was perpetrated.

As he noted, the international law provides a right for secession when the nation’s fundamental rights are violated. “It’s time to recognize Nagorno Karabakh as an independent state,” he stressed.

According to the Artsakh Foreign Minister’s adviser Arsen Melik-Shahnazarov, in Soviet period, the communist historiography falsified the role of the Gulistan Treaty in the history of the Armenian nation – as an importan stage on the way to liberation of the Eastern Armenia from colonial rule of Persia. It was this treaty that stipulated for the transfer of a number of Armenian territories from Persia to Russia, which had a clearly positive effect in preservation of the people’s safety as well as their political and economic development.

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True it is long past time for correction. Hirig Kherimian said when everyone gathers and stick their spoon into the pot, our spoon is made of paper.

After all the treaties that were adopted and forgotten, agreements that were unfulfilled, recognition now would be a small step in the right direction.

 

 

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Rule number 1: Possession is 9/10 of the law. That is the level morality of the geopolitical leadership of today, and they shall learn to eat their own scum rules like the scum they are.

 

Rule number 2: There are no "occupied territories" by Armenians. There were illegally apportioned territory from the 20th century perspective that Armenians, by way of a legal referendum, wanted to control once again. They were rewarded instead by the Sumgait pogroms. Armenians not only liberated lands that were legally theirs even within the "statute of geopolitical limitations" of historical amnesia that only remembers 100 years or so of history (less, depending on the "interests" at hand), but also the lands were liberated due to the imminent danger of massacre of the Armenian populations.

 

Rule number 3: Armenian soldiers guard Armenian territory that Armenian soldiers liberate. No idiocy about "international peace keeping forces" can ever be either 1) believable as a viable security option nor 2) demonstrated a single time in history.

 

No one has yet been able to respond to my question of whether or not they have examples of UN "security" protecting any endangered population successfully.