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During a meeting devoted to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and posted on the official YouTube channel of second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, Kocharyan said the following:

“Yes, the Madrid Principles are the only international document that clearly states the right of the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh to self-determination. It was extremely important for Armenians because it was the principle that underlies the existence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic or the Republic of Artsakh. Overall, I don’t understand why the authorities of Armenia are afraid of the word ‘self-determination’ like they are afraid of the coronavirus. The declaration of independence of Nagorno-Karabakh is based on the right of self-determination.

Whenever the negotiations would enter into a deadlock, I would always offer the representative of Azerbaijan and the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs to look at the issue from the legal perspective, but they would always tell me that the issue needs to be solved at the political level. They didn’t want a solution at the legal level because there wouldn’t be anything to negotiate anymore. It was simply necessary to assess whether the declaration of independence was lawful or not. There should have been legal diplomats, not diplomats. Azerbaijan was the first that didn’t want to solve the issue at the legal level.

The declaration of independence is not about security, but the legal foundations for the establishment of the state. Destroying those foundations will weaken Armenia’s positions in the negotiations,” he said.

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