Serzh Sargsyan: "Our top goal is to persuade Azerbaijan that recognition of the right of "Nagorno Karabakh" for self-determination is inevitable"

"Today it is often asked why Armenia does not recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The answer is clear-by the same reason for which it did not recognize independence of Kosovo.

In conditions of the unsettled Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Armenia can not recognize any other formation of the king, unless it recognizes the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic", said Dargsyan at a meeting with Armenian ambassadors to foreign countries and country's permanent representatives in international organizations.

The head of state voiced confidence that the use of the right for self-determination by way of separation takes time, in the result of which all the concerned sides should accept the idea of self-determination, like it occurred during the USSR or Czechoslovakia's collapse.

"This is the subject of our talks with Azerbaijan on Nagorno Karabakh. Our top goal is to persuade Azerbaijani side peacefully and through negotiations that recognition of the right of "Nagorno Karabakh" for self-determination is inevitable", said the Armenian President.

Sargsyan says that he expects the active involvement of the entire diplomatic corps of Armenia in the Karabakh issue. At the same time, he noted that "Azerbaijani officials and diplomats voice their approaches on the Karabakh problem in all possible instances and when possible".

Sargsyan considers that Armenian diplomats should present the legal demand of Karabakh people to inform about the imposed war for existence on the due level and show that the actions, initiated against Nagorno Karabakh were the attempts of ethnic cleansing, which failed only to the will and brevity of the Armenian people.

/Novosti-Armenia/