YEREVAN. – Armenia needs to declare to the world that the Lenin-Stalin crimes cannot be grounds for the South Caucasus, since numerous examples have shown that they have not become a basis for other countries.

Ambassador Ara Papyan, Modus Vivendi Center Director and political scientist, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am, as he reflected on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

He recalled that the Government of Armenia has discussed the bill on the country’s recognition of the independence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh).

“[But] I have always favored uniting Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia,” Papyan noted. He stressed that there are considerable respective legal grounds, especially the February 24, 1920 League of Nations report-proposal, according to which the whole area was recognized as the territory of Armenia.

“Therefore we [i.e. the Armenians] need to raise the issue of occupied territories of Armenia,” the analyst said.

As per Ara Papyan, Armenia needs to ask the international community to support in liberating Armenia’s territories, which still are under Azerbaijani occupation.

“Nagorno-Karabakh has always been a de jure territory of Armenia,” he added. “We simply have liberated a small part of that territory.”