No turning back, struggle for liberty continues – says Karabakh Speaker of Parliament on Human Rights Day

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 10, ARMENPRESS. Speaker of Parliament of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) Artur Tovmasyan released a statement on the Human Rights Day, the NKR Independence Referendum Day and the NKR Constitution Day.

“Dear countrymen, December 10 is marked all over the world as Human Rights Day. For more than three decades, December 10 is marked in Artsakh also as the Day of the State Independence Referendum and the NKR Constitution. On this day in 1991, the population of Artsakh expressed its will and devotion through the independence referendum to have an independent state, and on the same day in 2006 it adopted the NKR Constitution with willingness to create a democratic, legal country. The Human Rights Day wasn’t chosen coincidentally – the Artsakh Movement, the birth and existence of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic are an integral part of human rights, fundamental principles, equality of peoples and their right to self-determination. Today, the Armenians of Artsakh, committed to their desire and unchanged position that was expressed through two referenda, stand ready to embrace and strengthen with the same decisiveness and devotion the independent statehood’s achieved values, to live, build and develop their ancestral land preserved with numerous losses and sufferings, and to fight for the fair solution of their right to self-determination.

The struggle for our complete liberty and restoration of the violated rights of our people is not over, it still continues.

There is no turning back from our chosen path, it is just and sanctified with the blood of our hero martyrs.

Let there be peace in our homeland, and strong will, patience and welfare to our heroic people,” Tovmasyan said in the statement.