STEPANAKERT. - Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Vasily Atajanyan met with a group of students from ten countries of the former Soviet Union and Europe on Friday, press-service of the NKR MFA told Armenian News - NEWS.am.

Atajanyan highlighted the importance of visits of youngsters from different countries to Nagorno-Karabakh, in the context of closer acquaintance with the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh) and forming an unbiased view about it.

Upon the student’s request Atajanyan focused on prehistory of Azerbaijani-Karabakh conflict, noting that the fault of official Baku squeezed out the peaceful demands of Artsakh people of legal field and transited them into military confrontation.   

He stressed that territorial claims of Azerbaijan to Nagorno-Karabakh are groundless both in historical and legal terms.

“The international community should recognize the de facto 20-year independence of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic,” said Atajanyan.