Speaker of Armenian Parliament: "Unlike Azerbaijan, Armenia has no claims regarding the right of Nagorno Karabakh people for self-determination"

The declaration of main principles of international law fixes that the self-determining people may choose between three options of self-determination by its own will, not by the will of Azerbaijan or any other state: separation and annexation with another country, separation and declaration of independence or any other political status, the people wills to choose", said Torosyan upon completion of the commission on inter-parliamentary cooperation of the so-called "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" and Armenia.

"In this context one of the concessions made to Azerbaijan by the people of Nagorno Karanakh, is declaration of independence and we respect this concession", said Torosyan.

He said, execution of right for self-determination by "the people of Nagorno Karabakh" was blameless and "there is hardly a similar example in the world history, or in the period, when the right for self-determination was declared a norm of international law, which has a supreme status".

Touching upon the recognition of the so-called "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" by Armenia, Torosyan noted: "Armenia's recognition of Nagorno Karabakh is not a problem. This can be made any time. Yet this should not be a single action. We will do the due step when time comes".

According to the speaker, the current opportunities of the Armenian side "are not compared with opportunities, which existed in the late 1980 and early 1990s". "We are able to protect our two states and our people", said Torosyan.

/ArmInfo/