NA Member: The people of Artsakh have the right to return, and this right must be respected

ArmInfo. The people of Artsakh have the right to return, and this right must be respected. Artur Khachatryan, secretary of the opposition "Armenia" faction of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, wrote this on his Facebook page.

According to him, on September 2, 1991, against the backdrop of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the declaration of independence of Azerbaijan, the Artsakh parliament proclaimed the birth of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh). The process of declaring independence was fully consistent with the current legislation of the Soviet Union, as well as the fundamental principles of the UN and the OSCE.

"Incidentally, the Constitutional Oversight Committee of the USSR did not consider the proclamation of the Republic of Artsakh unconstitutional, unlike, for example, the decision of the Azerbaijani parliament to dissolve the autonomous region of Artsakh. Today, Artsakh is occupied, and the people of Artsakh are subjected to ethnic cleansing." However, this does not mean that the status quo is the final verdict. No. The people of Artsakh have the right to return, and this right must be respected," the opposition leader noted.

As a reminder, on September 2, 1991, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic was proclaimed at a joint session of the Nagorno-Karabakh Regional and Shahumyan District Councils of People's Deputies. This day became a symbol of the realization of the people's right to self-determination and the creation of their own statehood. On this day, the Armenian public and people from the region hold commemorative and cultural events (particularly in Yerevan), recalling the history of the republic's formation and discussing the protection of the rights of displaced persons.