he Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is ready to make concessions unless they harm the country's security and unless they become a good ground for the adversary to mount another attack, NKR President Bako Sahakyan says in an interview with the online newspaper of the French Parliament.
He thinks that any conflict, especially such a complicated conflict as the Karabakh one, can be settled by means of mutual concessions. "Reasonable, realistic and commensurable concessions are needed," he says. At the same time, Sahakyan believes that the new stage of negotiations will start when Azerbaijan starts respecting the ceasefire agreement of 1994, when Artsakh returns to the negotiating table and when the psychological barriers stemming from the revengeful policy of Baku are overcome.
Sahakyan stresses that Azerbaijan should quit the policy of xenophobia against the results of Artsakh and Armenia and that it should respect the fundamental rights and freedoms of other nations. In this context, Sahakyan qualifies the four-day April war as the result of anti-Armenian policy and dictatorship of the Azerbaijani authorities.
The NKR President is convinced that the process of international recognition of Artsakh will intensify and will have positive effects for stability in the South Caucasus. When asked whether the minority's demand about exercising the right to self-determination is legal, Sahakyan stresses that all peoples have the right to demand self-determination. "This is the key principle of international law," he says.