Michigan recognized Nagorno-Karabakh

ArmInfo. The Senate of the  American state of Michigan recognized Nagorno-Karabakh, urging the  president and the US Congress to follow his example.

The document was presented by Senator David Knezek, who made a  geopolitical excursion for his colleagues, noting that  Nagorno-Karabakh is located in the South Caucasus and is a historical  Armenian territory, which in the days of the USSR was handed over by  the Secretary General of the Azerbaijan SSR, despite the fact that it  was mainly populated by Armenians .

However, the senator stressed, after the collapse of the Soviet  Union, Nagorno-Karabakh, like the other Soviet republics,  self-determined on the basis of international legal norms. Thus,  Michigan became the 8th US state that recognized Artsakh.