Tigran Torosyan said Karabakh’s non-participation in talks is logical absurd

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS:

Till today no one grounded the exclusiveness of the Kosovo issue, member of the Armenian National Assembly Tigran Torosyan said referring to the similarities between the Nagorno Karabakh and Kosovo conflicts at the "New Approaches to the NKR Issue" conference launched today at the Yerevan State Linguistic University. He said from the first sight the conflicts seem "unsolvable": essentially there are two ways of solving them. The first one is the active engagement of the civil societies in the conflict settlement process and the second the applying of serious pressures by mediating states.

"In Kosovo's case the second variant took place, which is impossible in Nagorno Karabakh case, but it is obvious that here other classification of geopolitical forces acts", Torosyan said, adding that it is just a political issue but in legal respect these issues are very similar. The UN Court of Justice put an end to the legal duality and according to Torosyan, finally proved that there is no controversy between the principles of the right of people to self-determination and territorial integrity. The first one relates to the separation of a group of people from a territory of a state, it relates to state-people relations, the second relates to the relations between the two states. In the first case the main issue of discussion must be the status of self-determining territory and it must not be burdened with other topics. "Here the next issue comes: Nagorno Karabakh is a conflicting party and it must participate in negotiations", Torosyan said, adding that the fact that Karabakh is not participating in talks is logical absurd.