{"id":23442,"date":"2020-10-05T02:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/04\/self-determination-in-nagorno-karabakh"},"modified":"2020-10-05T02:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T17:25:15","slug":"self-determination-in-nagorno-karabakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23442","title":{"rendered":"Self-determination in Nagorno-Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aram Araratyan<\/strong> of the Armenian embassy in the UK responds to a letter from the Azerbaijani ambassador<\/p>\n<p>The Azerbaijani ambassador\u2019s reference to Nagorno-Karabakh (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/01\/nagorno-karabakh-belongs-to-azerbaijan\" title=\"\">Letters<\/a>, 1 October) needs correction. Indeed, the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) is not one over a disputed territory but about the issue of self-determination and fundamental human rights, including the inalienable right of Armenians of Artsakh to live freely and peacefully on the land of their ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>Nagorno-Karabakh has never been a part of independent Azerbaijan, as its people voted for independence in full compliance with the norms of international law and existing domestic legislation and according to the same legal basis as Azerbaijan in 1991.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/04\/self-determination-in-nagorno-karabakh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aram Araratyan of the Armenian embassy in the UK responds to a letter from the Azerbaijani ambassadorThe Azerbaijani ambassador\u2019s reference to Nagorno-Karabakh (Letters, 1 October) needs correction. Indeed, the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,1551,221,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23443,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442\/revisions\/23443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}