ArmInfo.The position of all the branches of power, actors and people is unequivocal: Arstakh can by no means be part of Azerbaijan, Artak Beglaryan, State Minister of the Republic of Artsakh, wrote in a Facebook message, in response to "a number of questions."
"Moreover, we are all ready for any short- and long-lasting hardships and challenges, but we will never turn off our chosen path," he said.
This position has always been publicly presented to the international community and to Armenia's authorities. "No one can turn off this path, and those Armenians holding a different opinion must respect the Artsakh Armenians' will and right to decide their own fate in their homeland," Mr Beglaryan said.
"The indigenous Artsakh people's right to self-determination has priority over all the other international legal norms or geopolitical interests. And Azerbaijan's territorial integrity has nothing in common with the right to self-determination, which is admitted by the well-known Madrid principles formulated by the OSCE Minsk Group and, therefore, by the international community. To this we can add the impossibility of Artsakh being part of Azerbaijan given the aftermath of the genocidal policy and further existential threats, which must be admitted by the international community, which was in the case of Kosovo," Mr Beglaryan wrote.
The path the Artsakh people embarked on is a long and hard one, but it is just and based on dignity. "No has right the right to betray the deed of our holy forefathers, fathers and brothers, and the shed blood, sealing the fate of future generations," he wrote.
Armenia's Premier Nikol Pashinyan stated in Parliament recently that the international community is calling on Armenia to request a lower status for Nagorno-Karabakh. "Otherwise, we [the international community] request you not to hope for us not because we are unwilling to help, but because we are unable to," Mr Pashinyan said.