Question: Mr. Kocharyan, during the joint press conference with the President of Serbia the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev stated that the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh cannot be self-determined. How will you comment on that statement?

Answer: The President of Azerbaijan should know long ago that according to the International Law not the nations, but peoples could be self-determined. Otherwise, according to the thesis inherited by Aliyev together with the presidential chair from his father, who said that Turks and Azerbaijanis are one nation, Azerbaijan cannot be independent.”