In international practice, treaties, agreements containing stipulations on territorial integrity have direct relevance to the use of force, according to LLM at Washington College of Law.

Dwelling on Artsakh Republic’s independence declaration during a Yerevan-hosted discussion, lawyer Levon Gevorgyan stated that UN Security Council resolutions on Karabakh, adopted in 1990s, never characterized declaration of Artsakh independence as illegal.

“Armenian diplomacy has to specifically accentuate this fact. We need to prove that Karabakh independence declaration was in consistence with international law norms,” the expert said.