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The referendum in Crimea is truly and completely illegal and has nothing to do with the referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh, wrote chair of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office Artur Sakunts on his Facebook page.
"Nagorno-Karabakh's leadership arranged it such a way […] that even [Azerbaijani President] Ilham [Aliyev] couldn't have imagined…
"Don't forget that the US Senate from its budget every year continually allocates [funds for] humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh, which won't be the case with Crimea… and not because Putin is behind Crimea, no. Because the referendum in Crimea is completely and truly illegal… and has absolutely nothing to do with the referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh… Finally get off the Kremlin's wrong path; it doesn't even have rails…," he wrote.
Earlier, David Babayan, press secretary of Nagorno-Karabakh's de facto president, asked by CivilNet [AM] whether Nagorno-Karabakh recognizes the referendum in Crimea, said the referendum was, in the first place, the realization of peoples' right to self-determination.
"In the same way, we have realized our right to self-determination. In the same way, we held a referendum, and that twice, in 1991 and 2006, and consequently, we believe that regardless of the consequences and outcomes it was an expression of the right of peoples to self-determination," said Babayan.