The NKR National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Relations commented on the statement of CoE Secretary General Terry Davis. The Committee finds it strange that the diplomat of such a well-known structure allows himself to make such irrelevant statements.
“Upon completion of negotiations in Yerevan, the CoE Secretary General touched upon the issues which did not concern his current mission. In particular when speaking of the local government elections held in NKR. We understand that Mr. Davis stated it while answering the journalists’ questions, but the fact that in other cases this diplomatically laconic European official ventured to make accents, which, in our opinion, were worthy neither of him, nor of the authoritative structure he had honor to represent, provokes surprise. All the nations striving for independence were forced to go through “separatism” at a certain historical period. It is not the fault of the NKR people that during Soviet Union’s decline the United Nations Organization or the Council of Europe by understandable reasons could not establish “external government” in Nagorno Karabakh, which could have made the present independence legitimate,” reads the statement of the Committee. “Everything the UN did in Europe averting ethnic cleansings and the threat of genocide, the NKR people realized exclusively by its own forces using its indefeasible right for self-defense. If Mr. Davis is not informed about the facts, we have to remind him that on November 24, 1991, by Azerbaijan Supreme Council decision the autonomous status of Nagorno Karabakh was liquidated and the ministries of defense and home affairs were instructed “to take measures for providing security for the NK Azerbaijanis. If this decision was not aimed at deportation and annihilation of the NK native population, then why doesn’t the decision of Azerbaijan’s superior authority contain even a word about civic and human rights of the NK Armenian population?”, the commentary emphasizes. In sum, The NKR National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Relations noted that “the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, which has successfully repelled Azerbaijan’s armed aggression, passed a certain stage of state government and is striving for democratic development today, has more legitimate grounds to be recognized by the international community, than the formation indicated by Mr. Davis.”