Karabakh issue bases on right to self-determination

PanARMENIAN.Net - Whatever OSCE MG proposals could be, the opinion of Karabakhi people will be taken into account, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told a news conference in Yerevan.



"Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan did not say that religious factor lies in the basis of the conflict. His statement was distorted," he noted. "The issue of Nagorno Karabakh is the issue of right of Karabakhi people to self-determination. If Azerbaijan were a Christian state the problem would remain."



In an interview with The Los Angeles Times Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan conceded that the conflict can have a religious motive but it's not decisive in the opposition.