{"id":250846,"date":"2014-03-18T18:18:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=250846"},"modified":"2014-03-18T18:19:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:19:04","slug":"crimea-referendum-has-nothing-to-do-with-nagorno-karabakh-referendum-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/03\/18\/crimea-referendum-has-nothing-to-do-with-nagorno-karabakh-referendum-opinion.html","title":{"rendered":"Crimea Referendum has Nothing to do with Nagorno-Karabakh Referendum: Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">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&#39; Assembly Vanadzor Office Artur Sakunts on his Facebook page.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Nagorno-Karabakh&#39;s leadership arranged it such a way [&hellip;] that even [Azerbaijani President] Ilham [Aliyev] couldn&#39;t have imagined&hellip;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Don&#39;t forget that the US Senate from its budget every year continually allocates [funds for] humanitarian aid to Nagorno-Karabakh, which won&#39;t be the case with Crimea&hellip; and not because Putin is behind Crimea, no. Because the referendum in Crimea is completely and truly illegal&hellip; and has absolutely nothing to do with the referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh&hellip; Finally get off the Kremlin&#39;s wrong path; it doesn&#39;t even have rails&hellip;,&quot; he wrote.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEarlier, David Babayan, press secretary of Nagorno-Karabakh&#39;s de facto president, asked by <a href=\"http:\/\/civilnet.am\/artsakh-davit-babayan-crimea-referendum\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>CivilNet<\/strong><\/span><\/a> [AM] whether Nagorno-Karabakh recognizes the referendum in Crimea, said the referendum was, in the first place, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nkr.am\/en\/news\/2014-03-17\/597\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\"><strong>realization of peoples&#39; right to self-determination<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;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,&quot; said Babayan.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The referendum in Crimea is truly and completely illegal and has nothing to do with the referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18552,27485,10665],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}