Armenian president urges int'l community to recognize rights of Nagorno-Karabakh residents for freedom, independence
YEREVAN. April 6 (Interfax) - People of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic expect that the international community will recognize their rights for free life, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said.
"People in Nagorno-Karabakh do not want war. They wish to independently govern their fate, create their future so that their children will be able to live peacefully, and in a democratic country. They do not want anything else," Sargsyan said at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
Karabakh's Armenians "have been fighting every day for this freedom, have been proving the equality of their rights" for nearly 30 years, he said. "They expect that the international community will recognize this right," Sargsyan said. "They managed to take the right steps in an enforced war, amid the blockade, on the conditions of violating the truce regime," he also said.