ArmInfo."The international community must understand that the Republic of Artsakh is fighting not against Azerbaijan, but for its freedom and independence," RA Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov said during the meeting of the Armenia-Artsakh Interparliamentary Cooperation Commission on November 10.
He noted that since Artsakh can not raise its problems at international venues, Armenian diplomats should make every effort to fully and correctly present this issue to foreign colleagues. "It is very important to conduct active agitation work with foreign deputies in order to visit Artsakh," the vice-speaker said.
Touching upon the latest international processes on self-determination, Sharmazanov stressed that it is impossible to draw parallels between them. "The Karabakh problem is not similar to either the Crimean, Abkhazian, or Catalonian issues, it is a separate and unique process." We must bring to our European colleagues that Artsakh, like all other post-Soviet countries, has self-determined in accordance with the norms of international law. if the process of its self-determination is not recognized by the international community, then it should not recognize the self-determination of the Soviet republics, "the vice-speaker stressed.
He also drew the attention of the international community to the fact that Artsakh has managed to build a more democratic statehood than Azerbaijan in the years of its independence: "It's not we who say this, it is stated by all foreign delegations that visit Nagorno-Karabakh."
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